The Dan Bongino Show - Shocking Connections In The Deep State Takedown of Giuliani (Ep 1514)

Episode Date: May 5, 2021

More explosive connections between the deep-state swamp rats targeting Rudy Giuliani. In this episode, I discuss the troubling connections, and what they’re hiding. I also address the latest decision by communist Facebook, and the Biden gaffe machine.  News Picks: The REAL reasons behind the Rudy Giuliani raid.  Left-wing, radical Facebook continues to crush free speech by upholding the ban on President Trump’s account. Is this the real origin story of COVID-19? Ron DeSantis strikes again.  Opponents of racist “critical race theory” win a huge victory. A story about Mary McCord’s husband. Copyright Bongino Inc 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 i plan to blow your mind today intentionally uh not unintentionally it's not going to be one of those cryptic shows or anything i'm going to point out to you today stunning swampy connections showing you again what i've told you the entire time. When you follow the money and you follow the connections, you'll find out why they need to pull Trump and anyone associated with Trump down.

Rip them apart. The connections today are going to be pretty shocking. It's going to be follow-up to earlier shows in the week. Don't miss any of this. I also got some updates on this Facebook thing and a quick thank you here. Today's show brought to you by ExpressVPN. My savvy listeners protect their online activity with a VPN. Go to expressvpn.com slash Bongino. Welcome to the Dan Bongino show. Let me get right to it. First, a big, hearty, bear hug like Big John Studd. Remember Big John

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to 64000. All right, Joe, let's go. All right. Joe's excited today. But yeah, folks, it was a little extended time between Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday shows because of yesterday. So Joe's very, he's got a lot of pent up energy.

So to get his, everybody's ready to go. Okay. So just first quickly, Facebook made the decision to keep Trump banned from their platform. You see this story up at Reuters. Listen, I'm not going to waste a lot of time on this. I was talking to, I have multiple producers now between all the terrestrial show, the video show on this. And I was talking to another producer, producer Jim this morning. We're like, there's not much to say. Facebook

oversight board upholds Trump's suspension. I just want to make two quick points before we get to the juicy stuff, the swamp connections. Number one, this solidifies Facebook's role as basically a liberal mouthpiece and not a serious nonpartisan site. Forget it. I don't want to hear from liberals ever again. Oh my gosh, look, Dan Bongino, your content trends on Facebook. Yes, guys, that's because people share my content. It's not because Facebook's helping me out. People like my content and hit share it's not a conspiracy secondly the fact that they only seem to ban conservatives like donald trump and don't ban any of the moscow rachel rachel uh russia rachel maddow stuff who consistently promotes conspiracy theories which

i'll get to in a second again solidifies talking point here number one you need to take and run with is that facebook is nothing more than a liberal mouthpiece. Point number two, it just makes Trump's social media site when he launches it that much more valuable. If he launches it or if he partners up with another existing one, it just makes it that much more valuable because people are going to want actual free speech. That's all I'm going to say on it. Facebook's a joke. It's always been a joke. This is not a surprise. All right, let's get to the real stuff.

Folks, we're going to do a little walk today, a little journey, and I'm going to expose to you some connections here, connections between the swamp rats. And the reason we're going to talk about this, the swamp rats and what they're doing to target the Trump audience now, is did you notice that there's been an odd, seemingly misplaced timing, an odd resurgence of the Russia and impeachment hoax stuff? The Rudy Giuliani story, a big expose by Russia Rachel Maddow last night on MSNBC. Did you notice that? There's been this weird resurgence.

Why is the Russia hoax back? Why is the Russia hoax and the impeachmentussia hoax back why is the russia hoax and the impeachment ukraine hoax why is it back can i make a suggestion is that okay is everyone okay with that everyone's okay i'm getting i'm getting a head nod here he's giving a thumbs up there i think the fbi must have found something on hunter b Biden and John Durham, who is doing an investigation at the Spygate thing, which I have to be, I'm very skeptical. I just want to put that out there. I'm skeptical of what's happening, but I think the reason you're seeing a resurgence of the Giuliani targeting and the Russia hoax is because the FBI must have found something on Hunter Biden on that

laptop. They need a distraction. And John Durham must have found something on Hunter Biden on that laptop. They need a distraction. And John Durham must have found something in the Spygate thing that could lead to some really embarrassing information coming out on the Democrats. It's the only explanation, folks. Why else would the debunked Russia hoax be coming back again? Well, because the Democrats, when they know they're backed up in a corner, they know they have the media on their side. They know they need a distraction. So Giuliani and this resurgence of the Russia hoax will serve as that. And remember, the Democrats are always good at accusing Trump of what they're doing themselves and the media will help them. Now, there is a great piece in the show notes today, the newsletter, Bongino.com slash newsletter by Lee Smith. The real reasons behind the Giuliani raid. It's in

the Epic Times. I'm going to get to this in a little while later, some screenshots from it, but I just want you to keep this in your head. This is a great piece. Read it in the newsletter. There are reasons behind the Giuliani raid and what I'm going to show you next with Rachel Maddow. And it has nothing to do with the impeachment hoax or the Russia hoax being any more credible today when the hoaxy hoaxiness of it was exposed months ago. It's because they're looking to hide something. My guess, Hunter Biden and what John Durham found. So they're going to go on a full court press. Here, Russia, Rachel, Moscow Moscow Maddow to the rescue.

Here's Maddow. Was it last night or the night before? Doesn't matter. Really, it all blends in. There has been no bigger promoter of the pee-pee hoax, Russia hoax, than this disgraced, fake, phony fraud who does nothing more and enjoys nothing more than to make up tinfoil hat lunatic conspiracy theories here's her latest one i'm going to show you a quick video where

she actually debunks herself she's back to promoting this hoax that when bill barr was the attorney general and robert muller was investigating Trump. That Trump would have been prosecuted for obstruction of justice in the whole investigation, the Mueller investigation, if not for this memo called the Office of Legal Counsel memo. This is, I don't want to confuse you, so I'm going to walk through this slow. The hoax is this, that Bob Mueller was looking at charging Donald Trump for obstruction of justice or people on his team while he was investigating him on the whole Russia thing. And that the only thing that stopped him was this Office of Legal Counsel memo from decades ago

that said you can't prosecute a sitting president except for limited circumstances. Everybody tracking the media wanted that story out there that yes, Trump would have went to jail. It was just this memo that said you can't prosecute the president, that sitting president that stopped them. It's a hoax. Here's Matt out bringing up the hoax again last night. And you have to ask yourself why

check this out when Mueller finished his report you might remember that Trump's attorney general Bill Barr told the public that he William Barr had consulted with Justice Department attorneys and had decided on their advice that despite these 10 plus detailed instances of alleged criminal obstruction of justice by President Trump laid out in the Mueller report, Bill Barr, consulting with Justice Department attorneys, had determined that despite all of that, nothing Trump did was really a crime. And so Trump shouldn't be prosecuted. Remember, Barr said that they didn't rely on this prohibition on a president being prosecuted while he's sitting in office. He said, actually, we decided at the Justice Department, I decided on consultation with Justice Department attorneys that none of those things described constituted a crime. That's why Trump won't be charged.

You see the narrative? Are you picking up what we're putting down here? Russia Rachel to the rescue. They must have found someone, Hunter. So they need Russia, Rachel, Moscow, Maddow to come in and help them out. So, of course, the Hunter stuff and the Durham stuff, they need that to go away. So they reintroduce an already debunked narrative because Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who I don't trust as far as I could throw, and that's

not very far, has said, hey, they really didn't characterize the deliberations over charging Trump for obstruction of justice accurately. Okay, sure. She wasn't in on the deliberations, keep in mind. She has no idea. She's basically just reading some emails.

So Russia Rachel now has to push the conspiracy theory again that yes, Trump obstructed justice and the only reason he's not in jail is because of this OLC memo and Barr knows it. Really? So we'll ask the question because we do actual facts here, unlike Russia Rach. Did the OLC memo, was that the only reason they didn't charge Trump? In other words, they had all this evidence and it's just this memo that stopped them? Well, that's interesting

because Bill Barr actually gave a press conference about this a couple years ago with Rod Rosenstein, by the way, no friend of Donald Trump, sitting right off his left shoulder where he already debunked this thing. Keep in mind that segment for Maddow is from this week.

She's bringing this up again because she can't stop. Here's Barr putting this thing to bed completely. Check this out. Rosenstein and I met with him along with Ed O'Callaghan, who is the principal associate deputy on March 5th. We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime, but for the existence of the OLC opinion. And he made it very clear several times that that was not his position. He was not saying that but for the OLC opinion, he would have found a crime. He made it clear that he had not made the determination

that there was a crime. Keep that name, Ed O'Callaghan, the name he mentions there in your head for later in the show. And notice, if you're watching a video, Rod Rosenstein's standing right there. So what Bill Barr said in that press conference is, I was in the room.

He's talking about his conversation with Bob Mueller. Barr's saying, I'm in the room with Mueller. Rosenstein and Ed O'Callaghan, he'll come up later, were there. Rosenstein's at the presser. So if Barr's lying about him, you'd think he would interrupt him, right? He doesn't.

So clearly Rosenstein, Rosenstein, no fan of Donald Trump at all. And Barr says, no, it wasn't the OLC memo that stopped Mueller from charging Trump with obstruction of justice. It was Mueller who already told him it wasn't the memo that got in the way. In other words, Mueller didn't charge him with obstruction of justice because they didn't have a case. It had nothing to do with the memo. So why is Russia rage up to this again? Well, you may say, well, Dan, Bob Mueller has a different version of what happened in that room. Bob Mueller definitely said, I'm charging Trump and you guys are stopping me because of the OLC memo. Really? Because that's interesting. When Mueller was given the chance to address the memo that supposedly stopped him from charging Donald Trump,

Mueller said this under oath on Capitol Hill. I want to add one correction to my testimony this morning. I want to go back to one thing that was said this morning by Mr. Liu, who said, and I quote, you didn't charge the president because of the OLC opinion. That is not the correct way to say it. As we say

in the report, and as I said at the opening, we did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime. What else do you need to hear? Why is Russia, Rachel, why is she doing this now? I told you it probably has to do with Hunter and Durham. Here's what I think is going on. I think Durham is uncovered evidence,

uncovered evidence. What happens with it? I don't know. I have very little faith in this. I just want to be very clear. I'm not. So please, you know, those of you think I'm putting any faith in the Durham investigation. I'm not. I've been disappointed too many times. But I do think they found some things. And I think one of the things they found was that they had come to a preexisting conclusion that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia no matter what. And as the evidence piled up that he wasn't colluding with Russia, it didn't matter. So you got it. Durham probably has evidence that the whole Russia hoax, they had come to a preexisting conclusion. Trump colluded with Russia, no matter the evidence. What did I tell you before? Democrats

always accuse you of what they're doing themselves. So the best way to distract from Durham's, hey, they had a pre-existing decision already made, Trump had colluded with Russia regardless of the evidence, is to flip the script and say Barr had done the same thing. In other words, what Rachel Maddow say, Barr had already concluded he wasn't going to charge Trump because of this OLC memo. And that's, so they're trying to flip the script and blame it on Barr.

They're accusing them of the same thing they're doing. It was the investigation that had come to a pre-existing conclusion, the Mueller investigation, not Bill Barr. They pull this scam every single time. Whenever Moscow Maddow says something, you can almost be guaranteed there's a scam there. She's suggesting Barr had some pre-existing conclusion.

Then you should always say to yourself, she's suggesting Barr had a pre-existing conclusion. Then you should always say to yourself, she's suggesting Barr had a pre-existing conclusion. That must mean the Democrats had one. And that's probably what Durham's finding right now. Keep Ed O'Callaghan in your head too, because we're going to talk about swampy connections today as well. All right, let me get to my second spot. Now I want to move on this section to, again,

what are they covering here, Durham, and they're also covering for Hunter. Back to the real reasons behind this Giuliani raid. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most important story going on right now. I'm very sorry. I'm getting a ton of emails about Arizona. Important story.

I covered it last week. I'll cover it when we get results to recount. I already covered it. I asked Trump about it. We talked about it on the show. We'll get to that. This Giuliani thing right now is enormous because if it's allowed to continue, we have descended fully into a third world police state fully. There will be no turning back if we

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too bad. I get hot. I work out in the mornings and I'm like, my body temperature can't cool down. It really drives me crazy. All right. So back to the real reason behind the Giuliani raid. Folks, the Democrats are good at this. I hate to say it. And I mean it. They are very good at this. And it does pain me to say it because I don't want to appeal. I'm putting them on some high moral arc. The Democrats in Congress are really awful, terrible people. OK, but they do something very well that we don't do as Republicans very well at all. They play offense and they don't play defense. They flip the script, just like I explained to you with why Rachel Maddow's bringing that thing up now,

right? Pre-existing narrative. So she flips it on Barr. Barr had a pre-existing narrative. No, no, Mueller did. That's what they do. They never play defense. They go on offense. They say double-barreled middle finger. We don't care what you think. We're just going to lie, make it up, and we're going to go on offense and never play defense and accuse you of what we did. They do it every single time. So what's going on with Giuliani? Giuliani knows some stuff, folks folks he knows some really bad stuff I'm going to talk about now on this show and this is the connections in the swamp part I need you to pay very close attention to the thinking caps portion because it's important Giuliani knows

from what I'm going to tell you now on about the connections of the people who targeted Trump and therefore Giuliani has to be taken out they're not going to play defense against Giuliani. They are going to go offensively target Rudy Giuliani. So back to the Epoch Times piece you must read today in the newsletter from Lee Smith. Let's go to screenshot one. So we already know Joe Biden was involved in a quid pro quo with Ukraine.

He's on tape. It's on Monday's show this week. I played you the tape of Joe Biden saying, fire the prosecutor involved in the prosecution of my son, or we're not giving you USAID, Ukraine. It's on tape. That is a quid pro quo, something for something, an illicit deal. So instead of apologizing, going on the defensive, what do they do? They just take the offensive and they take out Giuliani, accusing him of the same thing. Here we go. Lee Smith piece. In 2016, then Vice President Biden threatened to withhold a billion dollar loan guarantee from the Ukrainian government if it didn't fire a prosecutor investigating an energy company paying his son Hunter more than $50,000

a month. When Trump got word in 2019 of the Biden's activities in Ukraine, he asked the Ukrainian president to brief Attorney General Barr as well as Giuliani on the matter. Democratic officials, U.S. spies, and the media categorized Trump's unrelated decision to put a hold on weapons system purchases by the Ukrainians as a quid pro quo. That's exactly what Biden was doing by definition. Joe Biden said, fire the guy investigating my son in Ukraine, my son's lucrative job, shady job over there, or I'm not giving you U.S. taxpayer money. That is by definition a quid pro quo. So amazingly, what do they do? They turn around in the first impeachment hoax and they accuse Trump of the quid pro quo.

You almost have to like sit there in awe of the pilotas on these people. If you get what I'm saying. They know the media will never ask them questions. Ever. So they just accused their opponents of exactly what they did.

Giuliani knew about the Hunter Biden job and the quid pro quo and the firing of the prosecutor. So they accused Giuliani and Trump of the same thing. Here, screenshot two, you doubt me? From Lee Smith's piece. The same is so with the allegations that Giuliani took money

to influence U.S. policy regarding Ukraine. The Ukrainian energy company that hired Hunter Biden, that hired him for just that purpose. And it worked. His father even said so. Joe Biden boasted in a January 2018 appearance that it was he as vice president who got the Ukrainians to cut the prosecutor loose who was investigating his son or else. The now is clear if you start asking inconvenient questions about the biden's you're going to pay the price and the genius way they do it is just by accusing you of the same thing they did so here's the big question here. In their targeting of Giuliani, obviously covering up their profound corruption in Ukraine.

Were they spying on Giuliani too? When I say they, I mean the deep state cabal. Oh yeah, it's real. Like I told you, I don't care what you call it. The smelly state, the sloppy state. I don't give a damn what you call it. The deep state, the swampy state. Were they spying on Giuliani too? I got questions. Let's go back to that Technofog, our good friend and his sub stack here. Folks, there was a big memo, FISA abuse memo that just came out

again you haven't seen it in the mainstream media it's only one of the biggest stories probably in decades that a Pfizer court a United States court the foreign intelligence surveillance court designed to target terrorists was not in fact targeting terrorists sometimes but

targeting US citizens this is a huge story. You heard anything about it outside of this show? I don't think you did. Here's the techno fog piece where he covers a quote from this FISA abuse inquiry that came out this week. It says that they were conducting FISA investigations related to public corruption and bribery. Folks, listen, public corruption and bribery are very serious things, but they're not foreign intelligence. Public corruption and bribery? Is that a hint and a wink and a nod that they may have been spying on Rudy Giuliani as well?

So when this FISA abuse memo came out this week that, again, we've been spying on American citizens using a court designed to spy on terrorists, all of a sudden you see this story magically appear again about Rudy Giuliani. Look at this one. Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner. So when this came out, they had to cover something up so the pfizer court picks the carter page reviewer and democratic impeachment lawyer for an advisory gig the pelotas hello pelotas on these people so the pfizer court's got a problem hey guys ladies uh we've been spying on U.S. citizens but that's a court designed for foreign intelligence is one of those citizens Rudy Giuliani well we better go get Rudy Giuliani pick him up right quick here from the Washington

examiner piece so who do they bring in to clean up the mess again if you watch Monday's show you may be wondering why I'm bringing up this person's name again, because the connections here are simply incredible. From the Washington Examiner piece, Mary McCord took over the DOJ's National Security Division in October of 2016, when the first FISA application targeting Carter Page was filed. McCord reviewed that FISA and subsequent renewals. The FISA applications relied upon claims in British ex-spy Christopher Steele's discredited and democratic-funded dossier. McCord was also involved with the investigation into Lieutenant General Mike Flynn. All right, we covered this on Monday. So the FISA court realized it has a problem. It brings in as a

friend to the court, Mary McCord, a justice department official involved in the spying operation on Donald Trump and the investigation into Mike Flynn and something else too. What better way to sweep this under the rug than pull in a bunch of people with expertise in sweeping things under the rug?

Wait till you get a load of these connections from Mary McCourt, who is now a friend of the FISA court now. Friend. They need a friend right now because I think it's going to come out that they may have been spying on Giuliani too. Weird. Here's a Washington Post article. Maybe you're wondering, why am I publishing, or excuse me, putting up a Washington Post article back wondering why am I publishing excuse me putting up a Washington Post article

back from 2014 by Carol Lennig who gets more wrong but she writes about the Secret Service and screws up just about every single story it's amazing I debated her once on a Sunday show on CNN years ago and I think at the elevator she was horrified that I ripped her talking

points to shreds she was like ah what just happened Carol Lennig wrote this story in 2014 Washington Post long time I think at the elevator, she was horrified that I ripped her talking points to shreds. She was like, what just happened? Carol Lennig wrote this story in 2014, Washington Post. Longtime administrator Sheldon Snook leaves the U.S. District Court with accolades. Why is this story interesting? What does this have to do with the FISA court admitting they're spying on Americans? Maybe Rudy Giuliani. And then bringing in Mary McCord, Spygate person, Flynn person. What does this have to do with her? Well, let's go to the

first screenshot about Sheldon Snook, this U.S. District Court guy. Snook is leaving the job. He will take on a new role as special assistant to Chief Justice John Roberts. Wow. The counselor's office advises the chief justice not only on management and budget of Supreme Court, but also on his interactions with the executive and legislative branches, along with numerous other public roles in which Roberts serves. Okie dokes. So you've got this guy, Sheldon Snook, he leaves the U.S. District Court and he's going to advise Chief Justice John Roberts, fake originalist, fake conservative, now all in with the liberals. And unfortunately, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the most disappointing chief justice in modern U.S. history, can't seem to read the Constitution. He gets this guy, Sheldon Snook, who's sitting right there with old John Roberts. I told you the swamp was full of connections, folks. What's the connection? Well, let's go to screenshot number two. Snook toasted his wife, Mary McCord. Yeah, yeah. As quote, one of the best

lawyers that comes into this court and thanks her for her support throughout. McCord has been a rising star in Washington's U.S. Attorney's Office, moving from appellate and child sex crimes prosecutions to become the office's chief of all criminal prosecutions. Folks,

tell me again that deep state's not real it's a hoax these people all know each other so you're telling me the lady who is not even knee deep she's forehead deep in the spygate scandal the flynn scandal and another scandal I'm going to get to right now. Mary McCord is married to a former district court guy who now is a counselor to the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who has done nothing about the abuses of Donald Trump's civil liberties in the spying scandal. Gosh, that's really crazy.

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They bring the cleanup artist, Mary McCord, back in. McCord's married to Sheldon Snook. Sheldon Snook advises Justice John Roberts. Mary McCord is now advising the FISA court, Bousberg, and the FISA court, apparently, on how to clean up their FISA court mess. Mary McCord, again, involved, I can't say this enough, a key figure, a key figure in the targeting of Flynn, the Spygate hoax, and this bad boy, too. She was also involved in another scandal. Amazing, amazing. Not only is she not leaving public life,

they bring her back in and they celebrate bringing her back because the left plays for keeps and we play for public opinion. Let me say that again. The left plays for keeps and we play for public opinion. Not we meaning my listeners. I mean the party that's supposed to represent us.

The fake sellout Republicans. The left plays for keeps. They don't give a damn that you know Mary McCord was a key player in spy gate targeted mike flynn was involved in that scandal showed that on monday and they definitely don't give a damn that she was involved in this one too because she's here to clean up the mess because i think they were spying on rudy giuliani too look at this abc news piece check this out what does this have to do with Mary McCord? Inspector General, fired by Trump, urges whistleblowers to keep speaking out.

Michael Atkinson defended his handling of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint. You guys and ladies remember Michael Atkinson? I told you this would be a deep dive today. But it's necessary. Michael Atkinson was the inspector general when the fake Ukrainian whistleblower complaint, remember the guy who complained, the guy who shall not be named the whistleblower? Remember when he complained that Trump made a call

to the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, and said, I'm not giving you military aid unless you investigate Hunter Biden. Of course, none of that actually happened. Well, the guy who took the complaint was Michael Atkinson, Inspector General, who was later fired on Donald Trump, fired by Donald Trump. And Atkinson had done two things that caused him to get fired. Number one, Atkinson, as the IG ruled that the whistleblower complaint, the guy who alleged that he knew about this phone call

between Trump and the Ukrainian president. Atkinson said it was, quote, an urgent concern. It wasn't an urgent concern. It was standard diplomacy on the phone. Why did Atkinson do that? Because he knew when he labeled it an urgent concern that Congress would be forced to act. And if they didn't act against President Trump, they would leak to the media that they didn't act. And then the media would say, oh my gosh, they're covering up for President Trump. It was all very deliberate. But he did something even more interesting, Atkinson. I'll get to his McCord connection in a second. It's in this piece. Hold tight. In order to file a whistleblower complaint, the person who said, hey, i heard trump cut a deal with

the ukrainian president to investigate hunter biden in exchange for military aid they had to have firsthand knowledge they had to have heard the conversation you know what the crazy thing about the whistleblower complaint that atkinson decided to take was there was no firsthand knowledge. The whistleblower himself, himself acknowledged he didn't hear the phone call. He just heard about it from others. So if you're the inspector general, how do you take a complaint knowing it has to be firsthand knowledge when the whistleblower himself acknowledges it's not firsthand knowledge? The answer is you do something out of the ordinary and you just take the complaint anyway. So he got fired. Well, when he got fired, somebody jumped to his defense right away, that IG.

I mean, he did everything he could to advance a fake whistleblower complaint and make sure Trump got impeached over it, which he did. He didn't get convicted, but he did get impeached. So who jumps to his defense? There's no way that would be Mary McCord, would it? It would be Mary McCord, ABC News piece. This is about him getting fired, Atkinson. Mary McCord, who worked alongside Atkinson, oh, they worked together too, as Assistant Attorney General for national security at DOJ, told ABC News in a phone interview Monday that the firing was likely to raise alarm bells among the broader community of inspectors general

conducting oversight of the Trump administration. What suckers, what suckers you are, the left and in the media. You are such suckers. So let me get this straight. By the way, go back to the Monday show for more on Mary McCord. This is important. McCord was also working for Adam Schiff to help them gather evidence to impeach Donald Trump. The same woman involved in Spygate, the same woman involved in the targeting of Mike Flynn,

the same woman who worked with the inspector general who did an end around to make sure Trump was prosecuted and impeached. Excuse me, was impeached. And the same woman who backed up Atkinson when he was fired. These are all the same. They all know each other. They're all covering for each other. All of them. So the fake whistleblower who never even heard the conversation between Trump and the Ukrainian president about the alleged quid pro quo

that was really a quid pro quo between Joe Biden and the Ukrainians. Remember, they just flipped the script, right? Now we're going to come full circle. So McCord defends the guy atkinson who defends the whistleblower despite the whistleblower not even being authorized to file a complaint

because the process didn't authorize the complaint the way he did it he didn't hear the conversation why were they covering up for the whistleblower while targeting Giuliani and John Solomon, the reporter? Why? Why were they covering up for the whistleblower? That is Atkinson and McCord, apparently, and others. Why were they covering up even though the whistleblower didn't follow procedure? And why are they targeting Giuliani and Solomon now? Because Giuliani knows all of this. He knows Joe Biden was involved in some

really shady quid pro quos with the Ukrainians so they wouldn't investigate his son. But Giuliani knows something else. Hat tip our buddy Fool Nelson on social media, on his Twitter account, for uncovering this gem. What did Giuliani and John Solomon know about

the Ukrainians in the Obama White House and Joe Biden well let's look at email number one we have from John Solomon what did John Solomon know and why is he now a subject of the government's witch hunt against Rudy Giuliani he has just read the newspapers apparently Solomon's a target too oh look there's that Ed O'Callaghan guy again wow that's interesting told you his name would creep up again so is that O'Callaghan guy again. Wow. That's interesting. Told you his name would creep up again. So this is Ed O'Callaghan. He gets an email from John Solomon a while back.

This is from April 24th. What does that say, Guy? 2019? April 24th. Not bad eyesight, huh? What do you think of that? You got to understand, folks, this teleprompter, Guy warned me. He's like, the text on this is so small.

I can actually still see stuff at 46. April 24th, 2019. Thanks for zooming in. John Solomon sends an email to the Department of Justice and Ed Callahan's office responds. And in this Solomon email, he starts asking questions. Folks, you cannot start asking questions about Ukraine's relationship with the Biden administration and Obama administration without getting targeted by the DOJ. Dan, that sounds like a third world country. Yeah, we're in one now. So what are the two key takeaways? You can see the email on the screen if you want to read the whole thing. But John Solomon emails a spokeswoman for the DOJ and a couple others and says, listen, I have these documents I obtained from a Ukrainian official.

And basically, they're really shady. And it says that these Ukrainian officials wanted to meet, excuse me, the United States government, the Obama administration wanted to meet with Ukrainian officials about these two things. They wanted to meet, number one, about this party of regions payment to Paul Manafort. Remember the Black Ledger hoax? In other words, that the Ukrainians made illicit payments to Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort. It's a hoax. That never happened. Why would the White House want to meet about that? And notice, notice apparently John Solomon had documents saying that the U.S. wanted assistance in, and look at this, restarting the investigation into the payments to Manafort. They're are hoax. There were no payments, illicit payments. It's a fake story.

And John Solomon was also asking questions on why the Ukrainians, why they were pressuring them to stand down on an investigation into Burisma Holdings. they were pressuring them to stand down on an investigation into Burisma Holdings. So just to be clear, you may be saying, Dan, but you were just talking about the whistleblower, the fake whistleblower, and how Atkinson and McCord, who's now involved apparently in this Pfizer thing and all, how they were defending the whistleblower. What does this have to do with that?

Well, Giuliani knows all this. He knows about the Ukrainian hoax, the impeachment hoax. Solomon's asking questions. Notice this screenshot of email number two to John Solomon, too, about this meeting. So just quick takeaway, the Obama administration's now pushing the Ukrainians to prosecute Paul Manafort, according to Solomon's information, and to stop investigating Hunter Biden. That's what they wanted. Who was at this meeting in January of 2016?

Who was at this meeting? Convenient timing, right? who was at this meeting? Convenient timing, right? Because of a ban here, the whistleblower, he who shall not be named because of YouTube and their communist activity

trying to protect their own. Look at this at the meeting. Who was at the meeting? Oh yeah, the whistleblower. He who shall not be named wow that's that's weird so the same whistleblower that mary mccord's buddy michael atkinson the ig was protecting who made basically an unauthorized complaint. He

wasn't authorized to make it. We didn't even hear the phone call. The same whistleblower they were protecting is also at a January of 2016 meeting between the White House and the Ukrainian government, where the Obama-Biden White House is pushing the Ukrainian government to restart investigation into Trump's former campaign manager and stop an investigation on Hunter Biden. And apparently the whistleblower guy was involved in that whole thing. You think Giuliani doesn't know that? Why do you think they want Giuliani's computer and phone and iCloud information so they can get his emails with John Solomon?

Who knows it, too? I just read you the emails. Because they want to make sure you never hear about how the White House coordinated with whistleblowers, swamp rats, and shady people inside of Ukraine to target Trump while dismissing the case against Hunter Biden. Now, folks, I sincerely do hate, you know, I don't, I've written a lot of books. I don't plug them a lot because I don't like wasting your time. Hey, buy my book. It really gets annoying. I get it. I understand. That's why I rarely beat you over the head with book stuff outside of the release. But I'm asking you a personal favor. If you have not read my book, follow the money. You only have to read the opening chapter.

The opening chapter, called Insane in the Ukraine, explains what I'm telling you now in intimate detail. Footnotes and everything for you liberals out there. I'm going to show you two quick excerpts from the book about these White House meetings in the closing days of the Obama administration. They had to make sure they got Trump. They got Trump tied into a Ukraine scandal so they could hide their own.

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by the way, we name him in the book. You can read the book. Folks, I'm just going to be straight with you. The only reason I'm not doing this here and I have before is YouTube and Apple pulled it down. They will pull it down now. And you may say, well, just name it. I want you to hear it. You can read the name of the book. I've already named this guy a thousand times and I'll name him. It's in the book. But I seriously want to make sure people hear this. I know. I'm sorry. I promise you we've named them multiple times and every episode gets pulled down before anyone can hear it. So why did the whistleblower, who did the whistleblower meet

with? The whistleblower, the one who said, oh, Trump did a deal with Ukraine. This is where it gets even better. I know it's a tough show. I know it. But remember on Monday's show where I told you that the scandal in Ukraine is bigger than just Hunter Biden getting this shady gig while his father was the point man, vice president on Ukraine. That's an easy scandal to understand. Biden's the vice president. He's in charge of Ukraine. Biden's kid gets a cushy $50,000 a month gig in Ukraine.

Wow. That's not, that's a big scandal, huge. But it's not the only scandal. The Obama-Biden administration was protecting George Soros-funded, a George Soros-funded group in Ukraine that was targeting Paul Manafort, Trump people, while simultaneously making sure George Soros' business rivals got prosecuted. They were protecting this group, ANTAC. This George Soros-funded group, ANTAC. This George Soros-funded group, ANTAC. They wanted investigations into Soros' business partners,

Dmitry Firtash. And they simultaneously pushed the U.S. Embassy under Obama, Biden, Marie Yovanovitch, and George Kent. They simultaneously pushed them to push the Ukrainian government, not to prosecute them. What a deal, your ANTAC.

What a deal. You get the Ukrainian government off your back while you have your business partners, your business rivals prosecuted. Who ran ANTAC? Well, I'll get to that in a minute. I just want to get back to the fake whistleblower here and why this fake whistleblower, who was involved in these meetings with Ukrainian officials, where the Obama administration is coordinating all this,

who did they meet with, these Antac people at the White House? Wouldn't it be really crazy if it was he who shall not be named? Oh, this is from my book, opening chapter. What's also true, and this is very important, is that according to White House logs, Daria Kalaniuk visited the White House on December 9, 2015. Right before those January meetings. While there, she reportedly met with he who shall not be named, a CIA employee working on the National Security Council. Getting meetings in the White House is no easy thing. You need connections.

How did Kalaniuk rate? Who opened the doors for her? Why did she meet with the whistleblower? We don't know exactly, but we do know that he who shall not be named was very interested in Ukraine. So he meets with Daria Kalaniuk. Here's another screenshot from my book about who Daria Kalaniuk actually was. Antac is run by Daria Kalaniuk, an American educated lawyer.

She's been, as you might expect, an outspoken defender of her organization, noting that the EU, the US, governments of the UK, Netherlands, and Czech Republic have supported their, through their global fund, supplied her organization with financial support. And while that is no doubt true, it doesn't diminish the clout or influence of America's premier political patron. In fact, Antac, that's the George Soros funding group, lists its donors on its website in apparent decreasing order. Who's number one? The U.S. government. So now let's tie this up.

So the Obama administration is funding a George Soros group in Ukraine, while the Obama administration vice president's son is working in Ukraine on a sweetheart deal while the vice president's the point man in Ukraine. While they're funding a group called ANTAC, which is also funded by George Soros in Ukraine. That ANTAC-funded group appears on a do-not-prosecute list or appears in a do-not-prosecute conversation where people in the

embassy admitted that they did not want that group, George Soros' group, prosecuted for misallocating some of those funds the U.S. government gave them. That same group, Antac, also funded by Soros, by the way, wants one of Soros' business partners, appears to want him prosecuted, a guy by the name of Dimitri Firtash. Got to get him out of the way. The woman who runs that group, Daria Kalaniukuk somehow gets a meeting in the white house in december of 2015 she gets a meeting in the white house and the person involved in one of those meetings is the whistleblower yes the same whistleblower who makes up a story about hearing a phone call about trump talking to the Ukrainian president

and giving him a quid pro quo, which is exactly what the whistleblower knows the Obama administration was doing with both the George Soros group, a quid pro quo, we won't prosecute you, but we'll take out your enemies, and the quid pro quo they're doing with Hunter Biden, don't investigate Hunter or we'll have your prosecutor fired and we won't give you any money. Biden, don't investigate Hunter or we'll have your prosecutor fired. We won't give you any money. The same whistleblower, by the way, who meets with the inspector general, Michael Atkinson, Michael Atkinson, who changes the rules so that the whistleblower can lodge a fake complaint, who, when he gets fired, that inspector general Atkinson is then defended by Mary McCord,

key player in Spygate, key player in the impeachment hoax. She worked with Adam Schiff on the impeachment charges. Key player in the prosecution of Mike Flynn. Atkinson's defended by this Mary McCord, who now is working for the FISA court as a friend or working with as a friend of the court because the FISA court got busted spying again for public corruption, which it's not authorized to do. At the same time, it leaks out that they're going after Rudy Giuliani too, who knows everything I just told you about the Obama administration's quid pro quos

with Antac, the Soros group, and Hunter Biden. This is like a really, really bad Jason Bourne novel. Folks, it's in the opening chapter. I can't encourage you. Again, if I could give these books away for free, I would, but I have a publisher. I promise you on my life, this is not about the money, okay? You have my word. Look, insane in Ukraine.

It's all footnoted in the back. Footnotes, footnotes, footnotes. You can look all this stuff up yourself. This all happened. He has to be taken out and Solomon has to be taken out because he knows about the meetings at the White House with the Obama administration between Ukrainian officials, the whistleblower, Obama administration officials, and the Soros group. They have to be taken out. We'll be next. Mark my words. It's okay. Don't care. I legit don't care. After yesterday, life is good. It's okay. Don't care. I legit don't care.

After yesterday, life is good. I'm alive. By the grace of God. And I will be, hopefully, for a very long time. The rest is small potatoes. All right, a couple quick last stories. Leave you on a good note. Ron DeSantis strikes again.

This will be in my newsletter. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, but not even close. Best governor in the country. He's not even, I'm not saying that because I live in Florida. That's not even a close second at this point. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspends all local COVID emergency orders.

Listen, Guy's a huge fan of Ron DeSantis. Joe is a huge fan of Ron DeSantis. Joe is a huge fan of Ron DeSantis. New producer, Jim, and there's another producer. We got producers everywhere. Paula is a big fan of Ron DeSantis. Guy's the best. And he frightens the libs because they don't like governors with pelotas. Grande.

Grandissimo. You speak Spanishanish right is my spanish horrible you could you it is right he's being nice don't worry you can't get fired you i'm not firing you already you can tell me he's laughing because my spanish sucks so bad grandissimo pilotas the libs don't

like that they want you to back down and desantis just doesn't care speaking of people without pelotas feckless pic pequeño pelotas pelotas i'm not sure this show is going to make it on the rest of your radio folks pequeñitos here my spanish has really got degenerated badly i used to speak very well today it's really horrible i'm very sorry here is our feckless uh commander-in-chief and i use that term loosely again involved in the biggest scandal in modern american history in ukraine trying to help their buddy soros out while protecting his son and his lucrative gig over there was getting paid off by the Ukrainian, uh, Ukrainian gas company. Here's Biden yesterday, uh, stumbling and mumbling

through a speech about the vaccine. I got three short low lights from you. There are no highlights, uh, Biden who can't even get through a 10 minute speech on the vaccine without screwing up just about every key point. So here he's trying to give out a website to go to get this vaccine. This may not be safe for work, folks. His website. I'm not sure you want to go to the website he's suggesting. Listen and you'll see why. That's why I'm asking people to continue to follow the CDC guidelines.

Okay, that was the wrong one but that's okay no no don't just run around it's okay because i taught ccd um i don't i'm not sure there's a connection to the vaccine though i i did i taught i i'm not kidding CCD is this Christian education program for kids in public schools who don't go to Catholic schools or don't have access to it you can take a CCD course they teach you about the Bible catechists do it

I did that I'm not sure what that has to do with the vaccine maybe he meant CDC just checking, he corrected himself so he can't even get that out that he wants you to teach CCD apparently which you should do it's very good um here's Biden again I'm not sure this one this is because I didn't put him in the right order here apparently

but this is number two where he screws up another big thing I'll tell you about on the other side of this check this out we're also going to slip vaccines directly to pediatricians, ship them to pediatricians during the following weeks. It's a surprise to me because I sent him the ghee and I just realized in reverse order. Folks, we're going to slip the vaccine, slip. Listen, I come from New York and I'm an Italian from Queens. We talk with our hands a lot so one of the things queens guys do a lot is they do this slip you know let's say you know you're

doing like a deal under the table not that i've ever done that ever but you're doing a deal under the table it may be a little bit shady you know you're paying a guy off the books you don't want to pay taxes not that i've done i'm just saying it may have happened at some point in queens right the guy'll go like this i'll act it out for you especially us italians for queen they'll be like yeah i paid him you know it's because you got to watch him you have to watch the visuals on rumble and everybody knows what you mean you don't have to say i paid him off the books did you pay the guy yeah yeah, yeah. Trust me. Everyone from Queens watching this show, Italian, Irish, or otherwise, knows what that means.

Apparently, that's what Biden's doing. We got together with the doctors and slipped in the vaccine. This is the same speech. He can't get through how the vaccines are getting there, where to find it. Apparently, you got to teach a CCD to get a vaccine. And here's the third part of it.

I had him in reverse, where again, he can't even get the website right. And by the way, don't edit this, Guy. I know it because I know he's a perfectionist and he wants to edit it. Don't edit. This is all, if it needs, seriously, leave it in the show

because this is my fault and I don't want anyone to think like you messed it sent him in the wrong order here's where he mentions the website not family friendly do not go i'll give you the real website at the end don't go to the website he suggests check this out we're going to your text your zip code to four three eight eight two nine. Was it vaccine.gov? Because the vaccine he's suggesting a website, I promise you, will not send you where Joe Biden thinks it's going. I'm not going to repeat that. I'm not going to repeat that. Yeah, I think you all kind of heard it yourself. Please, please don't go there.

Your spouse or significant other may have some questions if you wind up on that website. Vaccine.gov, I believe, is the real one. We have to correct them. It's too busy trying to cover up Hunter Biden and his Soros connections in Ukraine. All right, folks, thanks for tuning in today. Listen, I know the show was busy.

I get it. And, you know, we cover the news and all this, but I'm telling you the Rudy Giuliani story right now is the most important story. There's not even a close second. If we allow them to get rid of Giuliani and Solomon and shut them up, it'll never come out what actually happened in Ukraine.

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