The Dan Bongino Show - Is The DOJ Trying To Steal Another Election? (Ep. 2323)

Episode Date: September 5, 2024

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The Bongino rule is in effect. Everybody, please, I'm asking you to not stand down, but just stand easy for a moment. The Justice Department, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Christopher Wray, basically all the people roped into Russiagate, Spygate, and every major hoax of the last six to ten years, right, are again telling you, Russia!

Whenever they scream Russia, you should scream Braveheart style, hold! Hold! Remember with the spikes of the horses? Everyone hold. As always, I like to give the bottom line up front so we can provide layered context for the show. There are two critical points I'm going to make that are triage-wise the most important and then three more.

But these two you need to take away right away. The press conference yesterday claiming Russia's interfering in the election, trying to help Donald Trump is clearly a plot to tar conservative voices in anticipation of the campaign, of the election. Them roping in, I'll give you an example of what they did. They roped in guys I know. I know Benny Johnson. I know Tim Pool. I don't know Lauren Chen.

Well, we met one time at a conservative review thing. I don't even know if we met, but I don't know her that well. I don't know Lauren Southern. I mean, I know who they are, but I know Benny and I know Tim Pool. The Lauren Chen stuff is different. And again, these are all allegations. Everybody's obviously entitled to due process,

especially from this government. This is obviously a plot before the election to get you to distrust conservative voices i'm seeing it already ladies and gentlemen the bongino team so we and by the way this is a i'm hesitant to even say this because it comes off like a when did you stop beating your wife answer to a ridiculous question that wasn't even asked. But because I know, and I'm seeing it already, every conservative on Twitter with a following is seeing it this morning. The liberals needed something prior to an election because they're losing and they know they're losing.

The fake Kamala Harris astroturf bullshit is over. The polls are turning. Donald Trump put in a fantastic performance last night on the Hannity Town Hall. They are in deep shit and they know it. They need a Russia hoax so that everyone can respond to a conservative on Twitter and say what, folks? You guessed it. Oh, are you paid by Russia too? That's the only reason they did this. Go look at my Twitter feed. Folks, I'm an investor in Rumble, okay? We do not take money from outside investors in Bongino Inc. Do you understand that? The advertisers are ads. You know they're ads because they're freaking ads. ads. You know they're ads because they're freaking ads. We do not

take money from external funders who fund this show. It is funded by Bongino Inc. And the president, you know who it is? It's Bongino. Me. We do not take money. You guys want to

take money? That's fine. I'm not like trying to pile on anyone. It's not take money. You guys want to take money? That's fine. I'm not like trying to pile on anyone. It's not my business. I give money. I invest money in places like Rumble. Rumble is banned in Russia because Rumble is a free speech platform. And some jerk wads in Russia wanted us to pull down content. And we said, and they said, you're banned here. So it's kind of funny to see asshole liberals who are the dumbest mother on the planet. There's no close. There's no close. There's liberals and like speckled toed sloths. That's how dumb they are. Are you Russian too? Yeah, yeah, I'm a big Russian stooge.

I'm banned in Russia. Did you know that, dumbasses? I invest in a company that's literally banned in Russia, you stupid mother. But do you see how it already works for them? Because Merrick Garland and Joe Biden know for a fact their followers are as dumb as a box of rocks. They put this thing out there and go,

hey, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, they're hinting they're Russian stooges, and yet if you actually read the indictment, which dumb ass liberals will never do, it says clear as day that they had no idea who these funders were. Folks, you have problems with them taking money from investors. Fine. You're entitled to an opinion. I know these guys. I've been on their shows. If you think these guys are Putin stooge agents,

I'm sorry. You're as dumb as the liberals. Should they have done more due diligence? I don't know, folks. That's not how I run my business. That's their business. But if you think these guys are Russian stooges, you're out of your mind. And the government doesn't either, because if you read the indictment, some of them said they weren't even contacted by the DOJ.

By the way, this is all information coming from the same FBI and DOJ that has lied to you in the past. So point one, this is a plot to diminish conservative voices. Every conservative from this point on on social media is going to have some dumb ass, dumb as a box of rocks liberal comment on Facebook or Twitter. Are you Russian too? They're not going to mention the fact that the governor of New York, Eric Swalwell and Dianne Feinstein, three of the most powerful Democrats in the country at one point, right, have all been credibly accused

of being complicit, being complicit in a Chinese Communist Party effort to infiltrate their operations. No one's going to mention that. Meanwhile, the indictment here says these guys didn't know anything about it, but yet they're guilty. Go read the Twitter, Swinney. Are you Russian too?

Yeah, Russia. We're banned in Russia, you dumb sons of bitches. You're so stupid. You are so dumb. It's like I thank the Lord every day I'm not a liberal. I mean it. Here's my second point. And this is something a lot of people need to be concerned about.

The allegations, and they are allegations, by a corrupted FBI and DOJ, keep that in mind. The Bongino rule is in effect. I have drawn no conclusions. and you shouldn't either. Lauren Chen is entitled to due process like anyone else. She is accused, accused, in all caps, in the indictment. It's out there, so we've got to cover it. Accused of taking some Russia-connected money to start

this media company to recruit conservative influencers, Benny, Tim Pool, and others, to basically get pro-Russia messages out there. They're accusations, that is all they are, from an already corrupted enterprise. Keep that in mind. Keep that in mind. But I'd be remiss as a former federal agent to not warn people that given these accusations. Are other people I'm not accusing anyone right now to try to ensnare other conservative influencers into this alleged, alleged operation? I'm just going to say this,

be very careful who you're emailing and be very careful who you're talking to and be very careful that you're not talking to someone working with the feds on the other end of the line. You know, what's interesting is when, when, when PP hoaxers who were higher up officials in the DOJ, when they were spying on Donald Trump, when they inadvertently say the quiet part out loud, here's an Andrew Weissman tweet. the quiet part out loud. Here's an Andrew Weissman tweet. If you think I'm crazy, by the way, that you better be careful who you're talking to on the phone or anyone else. Here's Andrew Weissman, the Bob Mueller guy. He was Bob Mueller's chief lieutenant.

This guy is one of the biggest Russia peepee tape hoaxers out there. He tweeted this out last night. The new DOJ charging documents raise a curious question. DOJ charges two lower level employees of a Russia front company, but despite providing chapter and verse about the complicity of the two founders of that company, the founders are not charged. My suspicion based on DOJ, is the founders were charged a while ago under seal and flip, i.e. are cooperating with the U.S. government. Now, you may say, why would Andrew Weissman write that? He's not trying to help you, folks. This guy hates you. confer to his audience that the Russiagate thing is real

by saying, look, they got these people on the inside, the feds work and undercover this big network. What he doesn't realize is he's advertently saying that this may be a fed op and may have been a federal government op the whole time.

Who's over there? Justin, is this making sense? This whole thing, ladies and gentlemen, this is why I told you be very careful. These are accusations from a corrupt federal government and allegations only. I would not be the least bit surprised if this entire thing was in fact started

by the federal government in an effort to rope in conservatives, not an investigation that caught conservatives i don't know it's early and i'm applying the bongino rule but i'm begging you to please give these people their due process and the benefit of the doubt until this corrupt federal government can produce actual hard evidence and we see it from a trusted source, and it's not Lisa Monaco, Merrick Garland, and Christopher Wray. You can't trust a single thing these people say. Top two takeaways. This is definitely a plot to tar every conservative

voice out there with the Russia label, 100%. Number two, are people working with the federal government, and was this a Fed op from the start? Those are the two biggest takeaways. I want to make three more subordinate points almost as important. Almost as important. Folks, if this was an operation to help Donald Trump, which I don't believe it was. Wait, now you're getting confusing, Dan. You don't think this was? No, I don't.

I think this was an operation to sow chaos. I think the feds so eager, the corrupt federal government, to create a new Russia hoax, actually, I can't believe I'm saying this, took Vladimir Putin's bait. I'm almost sure of it. You think these people are stupid, dangling this Russian money? Did you see the pitch deck they put out to some of these conservative influencers? It's like, go to Cernovich's feed. It's written in like third grade language. I believe this was a baiting operation. Vladimir Putin does not care who wins. Vladimir Putin cares about what? Us losing. Us, you mean conservatives?

No, I mean us meaning the United States. Vladimir Putin cares about one thing and one thing only, chaos. And what happened? The federal government took the bait, ran with this story. Putin knows they're going to do it because the Democrats need a Russia hoax for the media. Is everybody following me? I hope I'm not confusing here. Vladimir Putin knows the Democrats are dumbasses. He knows liberals are dumb as a box of rocks. He knows the left-wing media is dying to run a story about how conservatives are in the pocket of Putin.

He knows that will cause national division and people not to trust elections and violence in the streets after the election. That's all the stuff he wants. That's what Putin wants. He dangles this thing out there, this Russia media company thing. Of course, the feds bite on it. They run with it, rope in some conservative influencers who, you know, I mean, didn't do due diligence against it, right? Whatever. Allegations. But he did not want Donald Trump. He wants chaos. Here, I'll prove it to you.

Here's Vladimir Putin in an interview he just gave, just gave, perfectly timed, right with this indictment, where he gives his endorsement for the election i thought he loved donald trump that if we can name a favorite candidate it it was it used to be joe biden but now he's not participating in the election campaign and he recommended to all his allies to support Ms. Harris. So that is what we are going to do. Wait! That was...

Screw this week. I told you to play the Putin video where he endorses Trump. That's... I'm sick of these guys. Couldn't find him. Why couldn't you find it? Because it's not. Must have just clicked the wrong video, Michael said.

He's like, I'm new here. I've only been here six months or so. That is generous, sir. Maybe four. Why would Vladimir Putin? Now, because I'm not a dumbass liberal. Let me tell you right now in advance. I don't believe Vladimir Putin wants Kamala Harris to win. Vladimir Putin wants whoever to win.

That's going to cause the most chaos. Trump, Biden, Harris. He doesn't care. He cares about chaos. Vladimir Putin waited for the U.S. media to take the bait, run with this Russia wants to help Trump, and to cause maximum chaos, he perfectly times a presser,

which he doesn't do that often, saying he endorses Harris. Believe none of this. He's a KGB agent. It's the American press that's giving this guy the wind in his sails. He's laughing. You see him in that clip? Can we get a still of that? He thinks this is hilarious. This guy thinks this is funny. His goal is chaos. He doesn't give a shit who wins as long as the United States loses and

there's chaos after the election. Bank on it. And the American media and the left just ran with it. I want to make one last point. I'm going to take a quick break. Look. Look at his face, folks. Look at this smirk. He thinks this is hilarious.

I'll take my word for it. Watch the still shot. By the way, Lauren Chen, who is alleged, alleged, alleged to be some conservative influencer taking money to support Trump. If you look at her Twitter feed, her tweets are some of them are out there trying to knock Trump. What kind of op is this? I got two more points coming up. This was, but take that remember this. Point three. This was not a pro Trump operation.

It's a pro chaos operation. Just dumbass liberals are too freaking stupid to see it. Liberals, just don't be stupid. Please don't be stupid. I'm going to take a quick break and I got two more points on this. I promise at the end of today's show,

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declassify all their BS and expose the deep state. They cannot let this guy swear in no matter what. They know the polls about Kamala Harris are obviously weighted towards Democrats. They see she's losing. There's a story this morning out about how she's getting crushed in Pennsylvania. We got to execute. No excuses, no red wave talk. However, the Democrats are panicking behind the scenes.

More than one reliable source has told me that. The media needed a story to run with. Trump rushes helping them again. The fact that it's been done a thousand times doesn't matter. Because they're dumb or evil, this announcement yesterday by Garland was the way to chum the waters for them. Because they know the media will be entirely unsuspicious

or critical about it at all. I want to remind you, put up that New York mag piece if you could. This is really important. They need a new Russia hoax. They need to launch it hoax. They need to launch it right before the election. Now, your friends will tell you, your liberal friends, if you're embarrassingly enough have any left, right? Because they're morons. They'll say, well, the last Russia hoax, they didn't try to manipulate the election. Nobody knew. Really? Everyone go to your

phones right now. I'm going to give you five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one. Okay, good. You got your phone or computer in front of you? What's that? Not if you're driving. Yes, please. Don't get in action. I want you to go to this article.

New York mag. Here's what you're going to punch in. Final October surprises reveal FBI is probing Trump's alleged Russia ties. Margaret Hartman. You'll notice the date on that article. November 1st, 2016. Wow, that was a week before the 2016 presidential election. But the liberal media said they weren't trying to influence the election.

No one even said anything about the Russia thing. They weren't trying to influence the election. No one even said anything about the Russia thing. I'm sorry, you're freaking stupid, liberals. You can look it up yourself. They leaked it a week before the election to try to sabotage Trump. Here, because they started to get nervous. Here, they got nervous earlier,

and the October surprise is happening in September. Folks, it's the same damn playbook, okay? Now let me tell you what else they're going to try to do on the Russia hoax side. Liberals are preparing either way. They they're launching this russia hoax early conservative influencers bought off by russia that hoax now but they're also preparing another hoax post-election day in case they lose because they are very worried and you never believe it. It's about Russia again. Did you see this one by Politico? John Saccalariadis.

Hacking blind spots. States struggle to vet coders of election software. Oh, now we're talking about, keep that up there. Now we're talking about election software again. I thought we weren't allowed to do that. Machines, I thought that was election denying. This is political. They note that there is a probe that unearths some unwelcome surprises, folks.

What unwelcome surprises? Software misconfigured to connect to servers in Russia and the use of open source code, which is freely available online, overseen by a Russian computer engineer, convicted of manslaughter, according to a person familiar with the examination and granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about it. Michael said it right. I thought the machines didn't connect to the Internet. I thought, folks, what are they doing? They've got a pre-election russia hoax which you just saw and i just explained their post-election russia hoax is going to be what

folks they are afraid they're going to lose this thing they are terrified kamala harris is fake she's a fraud she's a ph. She's the worst candidate to ever run for president, the most unpopular vice president in American history, and vice presidents outside of George H.W. Bush do not do well running for president. Ask Al Gore. They just don't. They are terrified they are going to lose. So they're getting ready after the election with a post-election Russia hoax, which is being set up right now, which is, you know what? These voting machines, the Russians may have stole the election for Donald Trump. Ladies and gentlemen, please, I'm begging you to bank on it.

What have I been wrong about? Did I not warn you three weeks ago about RT, one of the companies involved or alleged to be involved in this Merrick Garland indictment yesterday? Did I not warn you three weeks ago about RT and the arrest

of those two people who were talking heads? Did I not say it? The reason this show is dominating every other podcast out there and there isn't anything even close anymore is because we are ahead of the news cycle, period. Just look at the live stream numbers. Here's CNN. Biden, of course, CNN jumping right in biden administration who accused russia of

a sustained effort to influence the 2024 election you see how the fats fed to him all the grist you see it and they suck it right up no one's even remotely critical after being told this in the last two presidential elections. Russia colluded with Donald Trump in 2016. Russia colluded again with this fake Hunter Biden laptop that was real. No one at CNN is even remotely critical of what they've been fed. I'm going to go back to the RT thing in a second I'm going to show you

What I showed you a couple of weeks ago Where I warned you You P1 listeners I saw you in the chat this morning Talking about it I saw people on Twitter I appreciate it Listen I'm just a guy

And I got to tell you man I don't ever want to waste your time And I'm very proud of the fact That you guys remembered About this warning Because you guys very proud of the fact that you guys remembered about this warning. Because you guys were ahead of the news cycle and ready to instantly react. I told you about this RT connection. The writing was all over the wall.

And I want to hat tip Holman Jenkins, by the way, at the Wall Street Journal, who has been way, way ahead of this. I don't know who his source is, but it's good. Quick break, and I'll get back to that. I'll show you how if you were just paying attention, it was right there. Today's sponsor is MD Hearing. It feels like everything's gotten more expensive these days,

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Folks, again, hat tips are appropriate. Holman Jenkins, back on August 27th, was warning about this. I have been warning you about a Russia connection. I have been working something similar, but not this exact thing. I had brought your attention to this over a week ago when this article got typed up and put out in the opinion column. Pay very close attention to this. The article's called Trump versus Kamala's Coronation, Wall Street Journal, Homan W. Jenkins Jr.

He noted this, again, remember the date. This is August 27th. It's now what, September 6th? I don't even know. He said, you know what? Keep an eye on these FBI raids on the home of gadflies Scott Ritter and Dimitri Symes. They're American commentators on Russia's barely watched international TV service.

Breathlessly recalled by the press, Mr. Symes name appeared over 100 times in the Mueller report. But the mentions are all exculpatory. The longtime head of the Center for National Interest, he participated in a luncheon for board members, Henry Kissinger, this other guy, and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Oh, the horror. Folks, the International Russian TV Service is one of the people that appears in this indictment. This guy was way ahead. We warned you about this two weeks ago that there was going to be another Russia October surprise. I told you I wasn't sure exactly what it was, but we specifically mentioned this.

You see what they're doing here? Do you get where we're going with this? mention this you see what they're doing here do you get where we're going with this this russian tv service and this russian media company what they're trying to say is oh my gosh look they're trying to buy and steal the election by getting their uh an influence campaign out there and it all involves conservatives notice how it broke the the day after a Chinese Communist Party alleged operative in the New York state governor's office. The deputy chief of staff is being prosecuted for potential alleged connections to the Chinese Communist Party. They needed the media to get distracted from that and they fed them another Russia hoax. Now, I want to show you how corrupt this whole process is, folks.

Here's Ken Delaney on MSNBC. These guys, again, are totally and completely uncritical of anything the corrupt FBI and DOJ tells them. Now, I don't care what you tell me. Vladimir Putin says he supports Kamala Harris. I'm inherently skeptical. He did it. He said it.

But I'm skeptical of anything. He wants chaos and liberals give it to him. Here's Fusion Kandalanian, a guy with a troubled history with the Russian dossier, a pee-pee hoaxer of the highest order, a CIA hack. I'll show you that in a minute. Here's Ken Delaney on MSNBC. And I want you to listen to this segment about the Russia hoax. Again, completely uncritical.

They just suck it right up because this is what they needed before an election. And Vladimir Putin knew it. Take a listen. Begin this hour with breaking news. The Biden administration taking a series of actions to target what they allege are attempts by Russian backed actors to manipulate public opinion here in the U.S. ahead of the presidential election, according to two senior U.S. officials. Joining us now is NBC's Ken Delaney. Ken, what more have we learned? Have we learned?

Jose, this is being described by our sources as a whole of government action designed to target Russian propaganda and disinformation aimed at interfering in the 2024 election. It is said to include sanctions by the Treasury Department, law enforcement action by the Justice Department. on RT, formerly known as Russia Today, that network of Russian government-funded English language websites and television platforms that was flagged all the way back in 2017 by the U.S. intelligence community as a vehicle for Russian disinformation and election interference. And at that time, the Justice Department required RT to register as a foreign agent. It remains to be seen exactly what actions the U.S. will take against RT today, but this does appear to represent an escalation in the efforts to try to purge the system of Russian propaganda and disinformation. What's interesting is that, look, the U.S. has been saying all along that not only Russia, but Iran and China, but particularly Russia,

has been consistently trying to manipulate American public opinion with disinformation on social media platforms, use of fake accounts, and through RT, through its state-sponsored platforms, as they did in 2016. The difference now is that there are mechanisms in place, particularly on social media platforms, to try to stop and flag fake accounts before the influence operations spread too widely. So it remains to be seen what impact this Russian disinformation is having. I can't with this guy. Confusion Ken, DJ Retro in the chat.

Beautiful. First, before I even get to the content of that, and I played the longer cut, because I don't want to be accused, again, of taking Fusion, Kandalanian, and the PP Tape Network out of context, okay? So I let this guy talk. Notice how he uncritically parrots a discredited FBI and DOJ's talking points without an ounce of journalistic skepticism at all. Now, why would he do that? Because the intel community wants to make sure chaos is sown and Donald Trump isn't elected. Vladimir Putin wants to be sure chaos is sown.

He doesn't care who is elected. So he uses the real Russian stooges, the American media, to make sure no one in America trusts our elections anymore at all. Here's the intercept. By the way, no right-wing outlet. The CIA's mop-up man. They're talking about a prominent national security reporter from the LA Times who routinely submitted drafts and summaries of his story to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by the Intercept. Email exchanges between CIA public affairs officers and Ken Delanian, same guy who previously covered the CIA for the Times, shows that Delanian enjoyed

a closely collaborative relationship with the agency, explicitly promising positive news coverage and sometimes sending the press office entire story drafts for review prior to publication. Imagine being a journalist assigned to cover Microsoft, submitting your articles to Microsoft for approval before publishing them. This is Ken Delaney. We can throw that up again, just in case you guys didn't read that. Yeah, you can read it again. Right on the screen, The Intercept. This is not a right-wing outlet, by the way. This is who Ken Delaney it is.

You see how the blob works? So let me tie this together for you. Vladimir Putin wants one thing, chaos. He wants Republicans to hate Democrats and Democrats to hate Republicans, everybody to lose faith in the country and elections and the place to devolve into an internal civil war. He does not care who wins. He cares about chaos. That's why he will endorse any candidate or either candidate. I can't say this enough. Whatever he thinks will cause more chaos.

He thinks by endorsing Harris, he's going to cause more chaos, given that the United States press and the media just jumped on another Russia hoax version 3. That's Putin's side. He wants chaos. What does the intel community want? The intel community, the FBI and the CIA, not only want, but desperately need Donald Trump to go away.

The Spygate documents, all of the stuff he's threatened to the Epstein files, they need this to go away. They cannot have Donald Trump get elected. Vladimir Putin is their friend in that respect because Vladimir Putin will provide them with a Russia narrative they need. Oh, look, we're trying to buy off conservative influencers.

Vladimir Putin noticeably also is a friend to the Biden administration when they need him, which is to sow chaos. The intel community needs chaos, too, because they're going to blame Trump for the chaos. But I want to ask you again a question. Putin wants Donald Trump, why are some of the people Vladimir Putin's government is alleged to be paying tweeting about how much they don't want you to vote for Donald Trump? And why is Vladimir Putin stayed suspiciously silent about the Russia hoax? Anyone think about that in the press? Now, Ken Delaney is an evil, demonic human being. Ken Delanian is not stupid.

He is an intel community hack who wants to sow chaos. If Ken Delanian was an actual national security reporter, he would ask, why hasn't Vladimir Putin ever come clean about Hunter Biden's relationship with Ukraine? Oh, he knows about it. The money paid by the Moscow mayor to the Biden family? Oh, he knows about it. And why hasn't he ever come clean about the Russia hoax? The answer is because he wants to sow maximum chaos and he knows people like Ken Delaney and will help him as long as he stays quiet.

Because they both have one thing in common. They hate the United States of America and want to see it destroyed. Folks, if there was ever a time to apply the Bongino rule, man, is it today.

You're not being played. You all are smart. We got, how many people? I'm sorry, I was looking at something there for a second. We got 145,000, 44,000 people here right now watching. You are not being played. You guys sniffed this out months ago with me. But I'm telling you, there are actual people out there who are.

You've got the morons that like the bulwark, that slob, John Pud Slobits or whatever his name is. Daddy's kid, loser, wouldn't have a job, went for his dad. You got Jonah Goldberg, that Tostitos-eating slob. You've got them out there like, I wouldn't be surprised at all if these people are russian stooges or if they just took them not in any way at all concerned about the government justice department intel community's collaborative effort to create more distrust in the election system which is what putin wants their goal is to target you not the deep state trust me when I tell you, there is a large swath of the swampy Republican Party that is playing right into this bullshit. All right, I got a couple other things.

I didn't even get into this. Sorry, I have this whole secret service segment. I may sound frustrated. I just, if I don't do this show now and get it on the record recorded and stamp the time and date, this is the biggest show in conservative media right now. If I don't get it out there,

other people, there are others who are going to do really bad things, folks. The swampy Republican side. I want to play this. Also, Trump did a town hall last night. This is what they're afraid of, folks. The Kamala Harris campaign and the deep state blob

is terrified that Donald Trump is back and he's doing what Donald Trump does best, which is relate to people. The swampy Republicans, the National Review crowd, the Nathan Simpson kid or Bart Simpson, whatever his name is, they don't understand any of this. They want to see the guy lose because they live in the world of ideas. They write white papers and opinion pieces.

They don't live in the real world. They've never been a cop or an agent. They've never run a business like I have. They've never run a business like I have. They've never pulled up to a crime scene with a kid with his head's blown out in a bodega having to explain to the parents what happened. They sit there behind a desk all day, beating off all day, writing stupid op-eds about nonsense

nobody gives a shit about. They live in the world of ideas. So when you get a guy like Trump, who maybe doesn't write the most eloquent opinion pieces, but actually does stuff, the Abraham Accords, tax cuts, conservative judges, regulatory reform, they're so uncomfortable with the material because it's divorced from their world of lovely ideas that they need to see this guy lose. They need a candidate again who just writes delicious op-eds but doesn't do anything.

This is the kind of stuff that drives them crazy. Here's Trump last night. Guys so relatable while advancing a conservative agenda. Some of it, not all of it, but a solid, pretty strong conservative agenda. Here he is last night. Watch what happens when a mosquito flies in his face.

This is just Donald Trump. Lift and shift, baby. Lift and shift. Check this out. He was down like 18 or 19 points after the debate. I hate mosquitoes. I'm surprised. I didn't think we had. We don't like those mosquitoes running around. We want nothing to do with them.

And we want nothing to do with bad politicians that hate our country, too. You want to know? But we had. Folks, this is just who Donald Trump is. It drives him crazy. Absolutely crazy that this guy has the ability to just go on a stage for 60 minutes, 90 minutes, talk about stuff. Yeah, it may not be a white paper. It may not use your flowery language in college, even though you guys never had real jobs. You don't realize people don't talk like that in the real world. He does. And if they want him to lose, here is what the swampy Republican party that are worse than the Democrats who are going to play into this Russia hoax, go follow their Want him to lose. Here is what the swampy Republican Party, that are worse than the Democrats,

who are going to play into this Russia hoax. Go follow their Twitters. You'll see what I mean. By the way, why are they all obese, too? Do they have any self-discipline at all? Did you notice that? Every single one of them. Jonah Goldberg, that Pod Slobits guy.

I mean, what is with these guys? Control yourself. Man, try Ozempic or something. Getting back to the show. They want him to lose. Here's their plan. Their plan is Donald Trump loses big. I'm talking about Republicans. Swampy Republicans.

They're praying and hoping they get a 51-seat majority in the Senate to be able to block Kamala Harris for two years. They then think that all of these people they pissed off in the MAGA movement are magically going to show up in the midterms, lead to a landslide House and Senate victory, and then they're going to take back the White House because they only live in the world of ideas and not the real world. What they don't realize is their constant relentless attacks on the MAGA crowd are likely,

I don't hope this doesn't happen. I'm not recommending this. I'm just telling you I live in the real world, not the world of op-eds, that they will be so disgruntled against the Republican Party that sabotaged them that they may never show up. And in case you accuse me of speaking with forked tongue, I challenge you to find one show during the primary where we bashed Ron DeSantis. Ever.

Guy, can you find it? It doesn't exist. Because I don't care what anyone else's opinion is on it. He's the governor here. I campaigned for him. He was a fantastic candidate for governor. He still is. He may be a great candidate for president again.

I just had a different pick this cycle. So don't tell me, oh, well, you guys, no, no, no, no, no. No, that's total bullshit. I just picked a different guy this cycle. There's no reflection at all on the quality of Ron DeSantis'

conservative governorship. Zero. Zero. Zero. So I got shit for not bashing him. There are people like, you need to, no, I don't need to do anything. I need to get Trump elected. And I chose a different path.

These guys can't do that. They still feel disgruntled. Their candidate, Nikki Haley, whoever it was, and it doesn't matter. They want to see this guy lose. Hey, can we welcome back our friend, uh, Brian? What is going on? What is going on? Oh, can you play that again?

Justin, I'm very, is Paula up here? I am very impressed. So Justin is not new. He's been here a long time, I think, only second to Guy. And he's a rather young man. He's about 17, still in college. And no, he's not. I think he's like 27 or something.

Who knows? We can split the difference. I said, Justin, put up the New York Times article, if you could, about Stelter. I read this yesterday. I mean, he may have to get a promotion after that. That was excellent. So I saw this article at the New York Times. Folks, Brian Stelter is back.

Mr. Reliable Sources, who's parroted every unreliable story in media history, he is back returning to CNN as the chief media analyst. This is hilarious. Brian Stelter, he is back. A man who has parroted every single bullshit hoax up there with Ken Delaney.

And I said to Justin, I said, the dopey media talking head Olympics where Stelter, I think at one point had the silver and got bumped out because he got booted by CNN. We had to, I mean, he wasn't a talking head.

So it's like an Olympian who's kind of like not eligible to compete anymore. So I say, can you put together some kind of graphic? Cause Stelter, I didn't expect them to do this. Folks, if you're listening on Apple and Spotify, you got to watch this 52 minutes in. Here he is. He's back in the blocks. So we're not changing anything yet. It is Joy Reid with the gold. It is Joe Scarborough with the silver. Jonathan Karl with the bronze. Chuck Todd is now in fourth honorable mention. And Brian Stelter,

I just want you to know, in a big moment, is back in the race. Coming out of retirement, he's like Rocky with Antonio Tarver in the Rocky Balboa. Rocky was like 70 when he filmed that movie, by the way, but whatevs. So as an ode to the legend, the king of misinformation,

the Duke of disinformation, the aristocrat of bullshit and lies. The monarch of misinformation, Brian Stelter. I wanted to play to you for you this clip. This is Brian Stelter back in the last election in 2020 when the true Hunter Biden lap stop story came out. Here is Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources telling you how this is just like a fairy tale. Brian, it's good to have you back, brother. Check this out. About emails again, this time emails from Joe Biden's son, Hunter.

So let's take a look at how a storyline is manufactured. In this case, a loudly anti-Biden storyline redounding to Trump's benefit. First, it helps to really view this as storytelling, not so much as news coverage, but as political entertainment, where crushing the other party is entertaining. Fox News, the beating red heart of the right-wing media machine, molds reality into a serialized TV drama. That's how Vox recently put it. Think Lost or 24.

Think Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad. Think Westworld or The Wire. Every day, every night, there are what appear to be new developments in this entertainment drama. Some new twist to keep you watching. A new storyline was introduced right on time. There it is, the New York Post front page announcing Biden secret emails, more shadiness involving Hunter Biden. Man, Brian, it is good to have you back, brother. It is good to have you back. We missed you. So he's back in the race. My humble opinion, he's going to have a lot to do to overtake John Carl. Thank you, by the way, Anita, in the chat for putting out the current medal standings. She's always on top of it. That's why she's the of it that's why she's the queen that's why she's the queen by the way to the mcgroins we will have limited

seating for election night paul and gee are going to look at a location today i say limited seating it's just fire code stuff that's it it's not like we're trying to restrict it but we want to keep it local because we love where we are down here and it's going to be very close to the trump headquarters and everything so we will have some limited seating for election night. I'm going to kind of parcel that out to the McGroin crew and others, and we'll have a few others. But there's only so many people we can see.

But thank you for keeping that up there. And listen, I really appreciate your support. Ladies and gentlemen, we've been the number one live stream in the United States now for I think it's three, four straight days. And I so deeply appreciate it. You guys really matter to me a lot.

And before we go, an important note, I'm going to cover the Secret Service thing tomorrow. To pick it up now with a few minutes left in the show, it just does it no justice. Here's what I got for you tomorrow. There's a huge scandal brewing in the Secret Service right now. I got from an insider today that at a J.D. Vance site who has a Secret Service detail,

that there were 38 poststanders, Secret Service poststanders at the site, or Secret Service posts. Do you know how many of them were Secret Service agents? You're not going to hear this anywhere else. 38? Nope. Four. Four. 38 nope 4 4

34 of them were Homeland Security investigations great guys and women zero doubt about that but not Secret Service agents it's happening again I'm going to cover this in detail tomorrow thank you so much for your support.

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