The Dan Bongino Show - The Biden Scandal Explodes (Ep 1372)
Episode Date: October 19, 2020In this episode, I discuss the explosive new evidence emerging that the Biden crime family is an active national security threat. I also address the misleading polling data and the early voting data ...which appear to be good news for the Trump campaign. News Picks: DNI Ratcliffe debunks the “Russian disinformation” nonsense. Stunning new emails emerge in the Biden crime family case. This may explain why Facebook is eager to make the Biden/Ukraine story go away. The most disturbing revelation yet in the Hunter Biden scandal. Biden campaign manager admits that they are NOT up by double digits in the polls. Early voting trends in swing states trending in a positive direction for President Trump. Health data nukes the leftist narrative about Trump rallies. Twitters censorship model is a disaster. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host
dan bongino so the entire leftist narrative where they're trying to cover up for joe biden who is
an active national security threat to the united states right now i'm not kidding the entire
narrative is falling apart no hunter's emails and these potential payoffs to the Biden crime family by enemies.
And I says it's all Russian disinformation. It is.
Are we sure about that? It's Russian disinformation. Are we sure about that?
Because that's not exactly what our director of national intelligence has said in a televised interview nationally on Fox.
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Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show on this fine Monday.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
Fine, sir.
Dude, I'm doing okay.
I'm just a little worried we don't have anything to talk about today.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I just said no news this weekend at all.
I don't know what we're going to do.
Joe, on a funny
note, not funny, but
ironically funny. I just read
an article at Fox News. It said
that there's an asteroid
hurling towards Earth.
Not a joke, by the way, that may
impact Earth the day before
Election Day. Luckily, it's the size
of a refrigerator. They're saying it's the size of a refrigerator they're
saying it's only a 0.41 chance and it will disintegrate not do any serious damage but
nothing to talk about in 2020 ever nothing it's already the worst decade ever and it just could
be skipped to 2030 is that even possible that adam sandler movie with the fast forward remote
where you can could be just fast forward to 2030. Please, I'm begging
you. Oh, great. Yeah, nothing to talk about at all. All right, let's get right to it. Busy show
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All right, Joe, let's go.
On this dead, non-existent news day, right?
I mean, gosh, it's like a tidal wave.
It's like trying to drink from a tsunami coming in.
I have to sit there all morning and portion out what we're going to talk about,
what I have to leave for the rest of the week.
So let's get to this one first because this is the most important issue of the time.
I'm not kidding.
Bottom line up front, Joe Biden and his family are an active national security threat to the united states
right now digest what i just told you that's not hyperbolic it's not stated for soundbite effect
that's a fact the biden crime family is an active national security threat to the United States.
Known enemies of the United States, notably Russia and China, nuclear-powered enemies.
We now have records and emails indicating, and a Senate investigation, conclusively,
that a member of the family has taken payoffs from people connected to Vladimir Putin,
million-dollar payoffs, a
member of the Biden family, Hunter, million dollar payoffs from the former mayor of Moscow's wife,
a noted friend of Putin. We also know that there have been payoffs from what they call China Inc,
the Biden family, that is, the Chinese Communist Party, where in one of the emails it stated some
of that money was being held in reserve for Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, wait, wait, you're suggesting that an article hints that Joe Biden may be in the back pocket monetarily of the Chinese Communist Party?
That's exactly what the article is saying.
There's more news this weekend about the Ukraine angle as well.
You're like, this gets worse? Of course it gets worse.
There's another article indicating what? In Ukraine angle as well. You're like, this gets worse? Of course it gets worse. There's another article indicating what?
In Ukraine, he was up to something too?
You know, Ukraine where President Trump was impeached over a perfectly legitimate phone call with the leader of Ukraine?
Yeah, now you know why he was impeached.
To distract you from what Biden did in Ukraine.
Daily Caller this weekend.
Stunning article.
Stunning article. Was Joe Biden's family paid off to get a prosecutor fired in Ukraine that was looking into a company that hired Hunter Biden?
The great Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, Burisma official told Hunter Biden they wanted to, quote, close down an investigation about the firm's owner, according to an unconfirmed email. Fascinating.
So, again, to walk this through for the liberals, we're having a tough time processing basic information.
A company in Ukraine, Burisma, was under investigation. Fact.
Company hires Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden. Also a fact.
One of their deliverables in an email was to get the investigator looking into said company fired
also a fact also a fact joe biden who was the vice president and point man for the obama
administration on ukraine is on tape demanding that same prosecutor be fired fact final fact
that prosecutor was in fact fired fired after Biden's demands.
Yeah, it's a matter of fact.
Well, those are you can have your opinion on that to use the overused adage, which I'm getting a little tired of, but you get it.
You are entitled to your own opinion, of course. You are not
entitled to your own set of facts. To quote Ben Shapiro, facts don't care about your feelings.
You can have feelings about the facts, but facts don't care about your feelings.
And what I just laid out to you are a series of facts. Now, this story will be in my show notes
today by Chuck Ross. Please, I'm begging you to read it.
Begging, like on bended knee if I could.
It'll be in the show notes, bongino.com slash newsletter.
The newsletter is the show notes.
The article will be there.
Please subscribe.
Read this article.
Here is the big takeaway from it.
There's a lot of juicy stuff in there, but the bottom line up front, they get to right
in the beginning of this Daily Caller piece about potential blackmail information, bribery, and all kinds of things happening
with Hunter Biden and Joe. Quote, an executive at Burisma Holdings, the company I told you a fact
was under investigation by a Ukrainian prosecutor, told Hunter Biden in November of 2015 that he
wanted high-ranking U.S. officials to express their support for the energy firm as part of an effort to shut down investigations against the company's owner,
according to an unconfirmed email Fox News reported on Thursday.
According to Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, Vadim Pazarsky,
a Burisma executive emailed Biden and his business associate, Devin Archer,
they're talking about Hunter Biden, on November 2nd, 2015,
laying out a series of, quote,
deliverables he sought for the company.
Now, I know they say this is unconfirmed.
I'm going to confirm this for you right now
because I always, always do what?
Produce the receipts and the evidence, folks.
That's what we do here.
Hat tip our buddy at Fool Nelson on Twitter,
who I do communicate with, who has some really good stuff
out there.
So we know this now. I've laid out the
facts, the predicate facts here.
Hunter Biden's
company he gets hired by
is under investigation.
We know that
the executive from that company
is emailing Hunter Biden, demanding that that investigation be, quote, closed down and close a closed down any cases into us.
So executive from a company under investigation hires Hunter Biden to make this investigation go away.
Where did that happen? Well, let's look at screenshot number two from the Daily Caller article where they have the actual email.
that happen? Well, let's look at screenshot number two from the Daily Caller article where they have the actual email. This Burisma executive company under investigation said, quote, the goal of the
visit was to, quote, bring positive signal and message and support on Nikolai's issue to the
Ukrainian top officials above with the ultimate purpose. Nikolai, by the way, is the executive
from Burisma under investigation with the ultimate purpose to close down for any cases pursuits against Nicolai in Ukraine.
So, again, fact company hires Hunter Biden.
Company is under investigation, sends an email to Hunter Biden, say our goal is to close down these investigations.
Hunter Biden's dad is the appointment on Ukraine who's then on tape demanding the prosecutor
looking into this company be fired.
Prosecutor is then fired.
Facts, facts.
Those are facts.
Liberals, facts.
You know what facts are?
Indisputable data points already proven.
You may say, well, Dan,
that, oh, by the way, key point.
Paul, I need you as the ombudsman too, in addition to ombudsman Joe, the official ombudsman of the Dan Bongino
show.
So we now know that this email from the Burisma executive to Hunter was sent November 2nd
of 2015.
The email from, I'm doing this slowly for the liberals listening who have like six inch
thick skulls, who are incapable of processing facts
the Burisma executive
emails
sends a series of emails to Hunter Biden and his business
partner on November 2nd of 2015
demanding that for our
money they close down any cases
into the company Burisma
everybody tracking Paula do I get a head nod
Joe do I get a head nod we Joe, do I get a head nod?
We got two head nods, so we're good to go.
Here is a
close inner circle confidant
of Joe Biden who works with Biden,
a guy by the name of Amos
Hochstein.
Here is an email chain from
Amos Hochstein on, well, let's just put it up.
We can look at the date ourselves.
Oh, November 2nd, 2015.
It's from a redacted source to Amos Hochstein.
Monday, November 2nd, 2015, 1230 p.m.
Subject, Hunter Biden's office called to Amos Hochstein.
He is requesting a meeting with you this Friday.
Would you like me to arrange this? Hoeksteen responds back, yes. Same day, November 2nd, 2015, the same day the Burisma executive is emailing Hunter Biden demanding that they get a meeting to, quote, close down any cases into the company Hunter Biden's being paid handsomely for and that Joe Biden's dad is later on tape demanding
the prosecutor be fired for.
Those are emails.
Again, facts, data points, irrefutable data points.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Hat tip Shapiro.
You may have feelings about the facts, but the facts don't care about your darn feelings.
You may have feelings about the facts, but the facts don't care about your darn feelings.
You don't find this odd that some redacted source is emailing a confidant of Joe Biden,
Amos Hochstein, asking to set up a meeting with Hunter Biden on the same day Hunter Biden gets an email from a Burisma executive demanding that they close down any cases into their
company for their corruption investigation.
You're not scratching
your head a little bit going that that's that that's that sound weird that sounds a little weird
little weird right you're a little weird really weird crazy talk so there's a the senate one of
the senate committees interviewed some of the players in this scandal again in case you're
looking for more evidence that these november 2nd emails are in fact authentic.
This is from the Senate's own documents,
as a matter of fact,
where they interviewed some of the players in this scandal.
Check this out.
I'm sorry, Paul.
I know I got out of luck.
I'll get back.
Yeah, you know what?
Paul, put this up.
Paul is right.
Let's do this email first.
This is one of the Ukrainian executives as well that hired
Hunter Biden. In case you're saying, oh, well, how do we know this meeting made its way eventually
up to Joe Biden himself? Here's Vadim Pazarsky. I always throw Paul off. I always say go out of
order. Vadim Pazarsky email. By the way, no one's denying this email is authentic to Hunter Biden
himself. Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to D.C. and giving me an opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together.
It's an honor and a pleasure.
This was sent April 17, 2015, indicating what?
That after the request for the November meeting, after the request later on,
they've already met with Joe Biden.
They already know what's going on.
Joe Biden's already in on this whole thing.
Biden's already met with these people. They already know what's going on. Joe Biden's already in on this whole thing. Biden's already met with these people. We have the emails. There's no question Biden's involved in this. Sorry, now to go back to the Senate interview, because this matters.
This is all under oath stuff. Check this out. They're interviewing Hochstein, who again is on
this email chain, trying to set up a meeting
with Hunter Biden after Biden gets an email from a Burisma executive demanding that these cases be
closed down into the company Biden's getting paid by. It says, this is Mr. Hochstein's answer about
the Hunter Biden meeting. Quote, I believe it was an early November of 2015. of 2015 wow that sounds weird the same day he got
the email from barisma demanding that the cases into the company be closed he's asked well how
long was your conversation with roger biden i get the name wrong it's hunter biden he says probably
20 minutes or so and did you tell him about russia's disinformation efforts hoekstein i did
and what was his response?
I think he was frustrated with the Russia narrative.
So just to be clear, let's walk through this again.
Burisma is under investigation in Ukraine,
hires Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's kid,
hires them to, quote, close down any cases into Burisma.
They then email Biden's inner circle demanding meetings and all this stuff, which we now can see with Hunter Biden, who's working for the company to get this prosecutor fired.
We then know in 2016, the prosecutor is fired.
And Joe Biden's on tape in March of 2016 talking about firing the prosecutor,
looking into his son's company. We also know, according to a company executive,
that they'd already met with Biden because there's an email earlier in the year in April
saying, thank you for the opportunity to meet with your dad.
Folks, nobody finds this in any way disturbing.
this in any way disturbing? Are you picking up what I'm putting down? That a company on an email chain, we now have documented and Senate confirmed under oath testimony that a company may have paid
the vice president of the United States son and paid them off to close down an international
corruption case. And Biden may know joe biden may know all
about this while he's running for president shockingly folks this case gets worse you may
say wait the vice president united states there may have been a financial incentive paid by him
by a foreign government to dump a major corruption investigation into a foreign company with serious
allegations of corruption yes believe it or not it does get worse and I got to read my second spot. We have a second sponsor.
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Yes, this does get worse. Now, just summing it up nicely is former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani,
who's been on this case like white on rice from the start.
Rudy Giuliani was on Newsmax TV and summed up the problem here nicely.
This is a huge national security threat to the United States of America going on right now.
Where is the media on this?
Check this out.
Press Corps knew it and covered it up.
And now we have Biden's own text messages
to his father, to others,
which make it clear that they were stealing money,
taking money from countries like Iraq, Ukraine, China, Romania.
Oh, don't forget Moscow, the 3.5 million from Moscow that Biden lied about as a debate, which we have proof of.
Plus, today, the New York Post completely puts the lie to his claim.
He didn't know about Burisma and he didn't know about the shenanigans there and the fact that he was involved in a bribe there.
Since he said he never met or knew anything about Burisma.
And there are text messages that make it clear that in 2015, he had a meeting with the number two person of Burisma in Washington, D.C.
Can't sum it up any better than that.
Nope. In the words of Giuliani, Rudy giuliani was there a bribe there was the vice president united states bribe to make an investigation go away
where's the media on this now do you see why president trump was impeached when he started
asking questions about ukraine does it all make sense now, folks? This had nothing to do with
President Trump, his phone call with the Ukrainian president, nothing. This had everything to do with
the fact that President Trump was asking questions about what Biden was up to there. And it scared
the hell out of the Democrats who realized this massive corruption scheme was going to be exposed.
Does it also make sense now why the tech tyrants at Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere are looking to make this Ukraine story desperately go away
before the election.
Now you may say,
you said it was going to get worse.
Oh,
ladies and gentlemen,
it does.
I mean,
seriously,
this is not,
this is not meant for effect.
It's a serious question.
You may say,
well,
what would be worse than an international bribery scheme for
a, at the time, sitting vice president?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the worst
thing possible, I think, and I can
think of, and I think many of you would agree, would be
the abuse of a child.
Right?
What does that have to do with any of this?
Well, check out the Washington Examiner.
Another story in the show notes that if you don't read, you're doing yourself a disservice by the great Dan Chaitlin.
Quote, you just made the connection.
Top senator asked if FBI investigated child pornography on Hunter Biden's laptop.
What?
What?
What?
what what
what could be worse
than a potential international bribery scheme
for a sitting vice president
that the FBI may have come in
and sent someone in to retrieve
Hunter Biden's laptop
from the computer store
where Hunter Biden left his laptop behind
and the FBI agent they sent in was an agent with a specialty in child pornography?
Don't take my word for it, ladies and gentlemen.
Listen to Senator Ron Johnson on the Maria Bartiromo show himself.
There is more to come.
And there is further analysis of the subpoena's handwriting.
There is further analysis of the subpoenas handwriting, and it suggests that the subpoena was served by an FBI agent who his name is Joshua Wilson. And over the last five years, he has been working on child pornography issues.
Connect the dots. If an FBI agent is working on child pornography issues for five years. Why is he subpoenaing the laptop of
Hunter Biden? Is there a connection here? Should this suggest that there's a child pornography
issue here on that laptop? Well, I think he just made the connection. Again, this is what the FBI
I think has to come clean about. This isn't a standard investigation where, you know, if the
FBI doesn't indict somebody that everything remains confidential. This is something that,
as we were talking about, relates to national security. And if there's criminal activity
involved that can be tied to Hunter Biden or his business associates, or even possibly tied back
to other members of the Biden family. And some of these emails indicate that Joe Biden was fully aware of this.
He was taking his 10% cut
or requiring 50% from his family member's salary.
Huh?
I'm not joking.
Can you think of anything more disgusting?
No, no, no.
Because we believe in facts here,
which we opened up to show it.
It is not a fact that child pornography was found on that computer.
It is not.
It is a speculation right now based on who the FBI sent over to look at it.
But it's not a fact.
So you may say, well, Dan, given that your show specializes in facts, which is what we do here, unlike the mainstream media, why would we bring this up?
Because, ladies and gentlemen, if Hunter Biden's computer, if if it does, fact contain the most disgusting thing known to
humankind we can possibly imagine and we are now um just a couple weeks out from the most
important election of our lifetime and that person whose computer it is that may have this on there
his father is running for uh the presidency of the united states in an election it's just a
couple weeks away um is it a fair question to ask that do the presidency of the United States in an election just a couple of weeks away.
Is it a fair question to ask that?
Do the enemies of the United States, these people we're dealing with, the Chinese and the Russians, the Biden family, do they have this information, too?
Because if they do, it opens up a very serious blackmail question, does it not? I think we're entitled to that answer if the computer contained child pornography on it
before the election and if the answer is no and someone can confirm that this show will be the
first one to put that out there and believe me believe me i hope and pray and i am not kidding
that the answer is no that's this isn't political football. This is the peak of human depravity,
if in fact that is there. I think we're entitled to know that,
because that's a game changer. Because not only is it disgusting filth, disgusting filth of the
highest order of disgusting filth, it could be disgusting filth of the highest order of disgusting filth it could be disgusting filth
in possession of the enemies of the united states who could blackmail
mentors members of the potential president's family
again now you see why fake book and twitter and the Democrat machine was so eager to make the Ukraine
story go away. Oh, look
at this fake book story, Breitbart, by the
way. Just convenient timing,
I'm sure. Again, it'll be in the show notes today.
The Facebook
quote content regulation
manager, that sounds Orwellian,
Anna McInjew
advised Joe Biden on Ukraine
by the great Alam Bakari, who we interviewed on the show two weeks ago.
So what was that title again, Paul?
Can you put that up again?
The content.
Was it the content distribution manager regulator?
The regulators regulate the Facebook content regulation manager advised Joe Biden on on on Ukraine.
Wow, that's that's that's that's really weird that fake book is on the record.
Do that guy what Andy Stone remember who put out a tweet, the fake book, other content regulation, whatever guy saying, hey, we're going to limit distribution of this
negative information about Joe Biden and the crime families ties to Ukraine. We're not going to let
you see that. That's weird because the fake book content regulators regulate, uh, happened to be
an advisor to Joe Biden on the same Ukraine issues. We're suspecting him of being involved
in, uh, corruptly involved. And that's just really weird i'm sure as we say just
a big quickie dink no now because the media by the way we had to cut it just so you know in case
there's a little bit of a joe will always make it and drew pretty seamless and Paula too, but though you won't even
notice it, but there was a portion of the show missing today, maybe like two, three minutes
delayed because Lucy, the wonder dog, I'll show you. I'll show you if you want to watch rumble.com
slash Bungino, Lucy, the wonder dog who we love was eating my Fox news microphone. This is one
of those quickie ties. Um, so if you hear me
on Fox tonight and the audio is bad, um, that may be because Lucy, the wonder dog, in fact, was
eating the cable to my Fox microphone, which is different than this microphone. This is real.
This is not a prop. They see the cables and everything. This is a real microphone. Um,
I use a lab mic for Fox. is an re20 this is real not
a prop so you won't hear any change on this but if i sound like charlie brown's teacher tonight
it's because wonder dog lucy in fact ate my lav mic for fox news i'm just putting that out there
i may have to go find a backup producer kurt who's another producer who works on my live stream studio. We may need you emergency call the bat signal,
light it up for producer Kurt to rescue me with a new lab mic because Lucy,
the wonder dog may have in fact eaten it one day when we do a live stream,
which we will, you will get to see the outtake here, right? Joe, me going, Paula,
the dog's eating the lab mic and Paulaula i'm not kidding paula you know
doing a bear crawl like this not a joke under the camera because she didn't know if i was going to
keep it a show bear crawl under the camera trying to grab lucy hi god hi god it was like out of a
drama like a war movie or something i I got it. I got Lucy.
Come on, Lucy.
And barely saved us in time before Lucy totally ate my lav mic for Fox.
It's priceless footage.
One day we are going to do a live stream soon.
I'm in negotiations now with a number of entities.
On the live stream, you will catch all the golden outtakes.
Joe's had them too. Don't let outtakes. Joe's had them too.
Don't let Joe fool you.
Joe's had his moments too.
See, Joe can cut it out himself when he doesn't like what he says.
You'll get to see that too.
It's all gold, folks.
All right.
Right?
Is it not?
Joe's like, I don't like them.
I'm going to cut that out.
Everybody's had them.
I've had them.
Paul has had them.
Lucy, the wonder dog.
Joe, everyone. All right. Let me get back to this. I've had him. Paul has had him. Lucy, the wonder dog, Joe, everyone.
All right, let me get back to this. This is seriously, this is important stuff. So of course,
everybody's in a panic, the Democrats, the media, fake book, Twitter, everyone else over this Ukraine
story, because it's only the biggest national security threat of our time right now that we
may have a president in a couple of months, Joe Biden, whom could win, who is a compromised
national security threat to the United States. Huge story. So everybody, of course, is eager
to make it go away because they don't do actual news. They're a joke. So the media is going back
to do what? Well, they can't impeach President Trump again. There's only two weeks to go to the
election. So they're going to their old go-to. it's like that old catcher's mitt you have your son's
a pitcher it's all worn out nice you can hey you gotta throw a few throw a few money that old
hanging comfortable catcher's mid right they go back to it's russian disinformation this must be
a russian disinformation plot that's weird russian disinformation so hunter biden leaves his computer
in a computer store and what the, the Russians made him do it?
He signs over the computer.
If he doesn't pick it up within a certain amount of time, there's a receipt.
He surrenders the computer.
It's not hacked information.
It's not a stolen computer.
The Russians did that?
I'm unclear.
I'm unclear how this is Russian disinformation.
Confirmed emails now.
Some of them, not all of them, all but confirmed emails and no one on the
biden campaign is denying and that it's hunter's computer or that any of these are real so what
the russians made him i'm confused so leland vitter did a good job on fox this weekend
um leland was interviewing this biden campaign uh hack who just humiliated herself by the way
she was had a green screen in the back,
a literal green screen. I don't know if she forgot to turn the green screen on for the,
did you see this, Joe? Listen, I don't want you to get distracted because if you're listening
on audio, the audio matters. But if you're watching on Rumble, rumble.com slash Bongino,
this is how incompetent the Biden team is. They were behind an actual green screen. They forgot to turn the effect on. So it's green, which is super weird.
But whatevs, this is supposed to be a professional campaign.
So here's this Biden flack and Leland Vitter is having none of this nonsense about, hey, these emails were hacked.
They may be fake. They may be Russian disinformation. These emails between Hunter Biden and all these cronies and stuff.
Leland's like, well, just deny it. And notice what she says before he cuts her. He shouldn't have cut her
off. He should have let her keep going. But she says like, no, no, no, no one's denying it. Oh,
they aren't. They check this out. This is weird. What's interesting is I feel like you still
haven't answered the fundamental question, which is, can anyone say that these emails are inauthentic?
And so far, I haven't heard anybody say that. Yeah, I think that's fair. I don't think anybody
said. Let me ask you about let me let me let me do this. Hold on. Let me ask it like this.
One of the biggest issues that Democrats have had in in the former vice president have had with the
Trump family was the emails
that connected Donald Trump Jr. to Russians.
OK, there was an entire special counsel investigating that.
OK, there are now emails connecting Hunter Biden with both cutouts for the Ukrainian
government and Russian intelligence and with the Chinese Communist Party.
Hold on.
So hold on.
Let me just ask the question.
So should there be the same treatment?
Should there be a special council?
Because when there was an email from Don Jr., the left went crazy.
I think your point about having a special council is probably particularly responsible.
I think it's a shame that we're spending so much time and taxpayer dollars.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on.
It's a shame trying to figure out
if the man who's going to be
running for president of the United States
and wants to be president,
it's a shame to figure out whether or not
there was 10% of a Chinese company put aside for him.
That's a waste of time?
Oh, is that the question or not?
Listen, Leland goes after both parties.
I don't know.
Honestly, I work with Leland I know Leland we're
not best friends but I've you know we've spoken to him quite a bit I don't know what his politics
are I have no idea I just know he savages both sides of the aisle I really don't I have no idea
what his politics are but man did he have her nailed up against a wall there are these emails between hunter biden's uh hunter biden
his business associates and cutouts for foreign governments and enemies of the united states
are they real or not and notice what she says well no one's saying they're inauthentic so they're real
not only can they not figure out a green screen they can't figure out how to get out of this client of questioning because the
emails are real because the emails are real.
And Leland sums it up nicely at the end saying,
this isn't a fair line of questioning. Are you insane?
Like is the vice president in the pocket of enemies to the United States?
We're not supposed to ask this just to be crystal clear.
So and he brings up another great point.
So we had a Senate investigation, a House investigation, a Southern District of New York investigation and an entire Bob Mueller witch hunt special counsel dedicated to investigating Trump's ties to Russia on the basis a fake pp hoax dossier that's been
thoroughly discredited by everyone including muller himself that was a whole four-year
investigation but we have emails tying your candidate joe biden to enemies of the united
states you can't say are fake you can't say that because they're not and what were this
not supposed to be questioning about this at
all good job by leland well done well they shouldn't interrupted her there she was in the
process of giving him a huge soundbite we're not saying they're inauthentic so you're saying
they're real we're not saying they're inauthentic meaning we are saying they're authentic right i'm
just do you know, remember logic?
Again, the modus tonens, modus ponens stuff.
But you ever do that in college?
If then, if they're not inauthentic, that means they're authentic.
Kind of binary, no?
One or the other?
Now, regarding the Biden campaign flack who can't figure out a green screen
trying to change the subject well this could be russian disinformation that was a longer
interview and it's the interest of time i had to cut that portions of it out here is our director
of national intelligence this morning breaking on maria bartir show, huge news, eviscerating the stupid talking
point that these Hunter Biden emails laying out a corruption scheme like we haven't seen
in eons in the United States.
Declaimed by the Democrats and sleazeball Adam Schiff, Schiff day, Schiff day going
back.
These are all Russian disinformation.
There's no evidence.
The Biden flag just said these emails are, quote, not inauthentic. No one's saying that. That's what she said. That's
the exact quote. I'm sorry. No one's saying that in response to are these emails inauthentic.
So she's suggesting they are authentic. And yet media flacks. And I'm not talking about media
flacks that work for Biden. I'm talking about media who are flacks, too, for the Biden, because
they are media people, you know, like the slimes and other ones,
the compost.
They can't get away from this talking point
that none of this may be Russian disinformation.
Let's have the director of national intelligence,
who's a good man,
is not going to risk his reputation for anything.
And he knows everybody would leak it
if it was actually Russian disinformation,
saying categorically on Maria Bartiromo's show this morning
that that is false,
that there is no evidence whatsoever that these emails are Russian disinformation.
Check this out.
Is this Russian disinformation, director?
So, Maria, it's funny that some of the people that complain the most about intelligence being politicized
are the ones politicizing intelligence.
And unfortunately, in this case, it is Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who,
as you pointed out on Friday, said that the intelligence community believes
that Hunter Biden's laptop and the emails on it are part of some Russian disinformation campaign.
Let me be clear. The intelligence community doesn't believe that because there's no intelligence that supports that. And we have shared no intelligence with
Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden's laptop is part of some
Russian disinformation campaign. It's simply not true. And this is exactly what I said I would
stop when I became the director of national intelligence. And that's people using the
intelligence community to leverage some political narrative. And in this case, apparently Chairman
Schiff wants anything against his preferred political candidate to be deemed as not real
and is using the intelligence community or attempting to use the intelligence community
to say there's nothing to see here. Don't drag the intelligence community into this. Hunter Biden's
laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign. And I think it's clear that the American
people know that. Okay, folks, there it is. Gavel in. That, in fact, is what we would call
a conclusive period, full stop denial that any of that nonsense is true.
I mean, what else do you need to hear than the director of national intelligence,
a good man in John Ratcliffe, stating for the record publicly on a nationally televised popular
cable news show that there is zero evidence that Hunter Biden's emails
are a Russian disinformation campaign.
What else do you need to hear?
The media, of course, will not run with any of that
because they're liars, they're hacks, they're frauds.
They are fully in bed,
engaged in all kinds of carnal activities
with the Biden campaign.
with the Biden campaign.
They are parroting Biden campaign talking points because that's all they care about is defeating Trump.
The truth is a secondary agenda, if not tertiary,
maybe quaternary at best.
The truth, the truth Ratcliffe just told you.
There is not a shred of evidence.
This is a Russian disinformation campaign. Stop making it up. Doesn't matter.
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So we've laid out the case against the Biden family.
I've laid out the ridiculous media narrative.
There's Russian disinformation.
It's not a shred of evidence at all, but it's not a shred of evidence.
The media actually does journalism either.
So what's the difference, right?
So they're going to go to this other narrative now as well.
And the other narrative, once John Ratcliffe, once his talking points from this morning
start filtering through the media and the media realizes they're not going to be able
to say this anymore because there's no evidence they can produce that this is russian disinformation they're going to go
to this they're going to say well this was a politically motivated link a leak excuse me
designed to damage the biden campaign and keep in mind the dossier and all that stuff joe get ready
for it the dossier and all that, that wasn't leaked prior to the
election. Mark it. Mark it, Paula. Mark the date. Mark the date right now. Mark the date. Mark the
time. Mark it. Guaranteed. Because they have nothing to fall back on. The Biden campaign is
not denying the authenticity of the emails. Its Russian disinformation line has been totally
eviscerated. It's just fake. No evidence will surface that that's true at all.
So they're going to say, well, this was a politically motivated leak. And keep in mind,
when they had the dossier, which was fake, by the way, on Trump, that didn't leak till after the election. I'm telling you, this is going to be their next line of attack. We're going to head
that off right here. I'm going to go quickly through a series of headlines showing you that's
fake too, that the PP dossier was in fact leaked before
the election, even though it was categorically false and that so-called credible news outlets
leaked to the PP dossier with no evidence it was in fact true before the election.
For liberals listening, the last election for president was in November of 2016. I know you
have a tough time with dates and stuff so if it
was in november we'll look at the dates on these articles to show you that your talking point oh
no no no one in the mainstream media dared leak the pp dossier before the election that is in fact
another made-up fabricated talking point just like russian disinformation let's go to headline
number one uh the new yorker pretty simple again we can look at the headline, look at the date.
There he goes. David Remnick, August 3rd of 2016. August, Joe, is before November, right?
Just going to need you to fact check me here. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I know it's tough. These are hard ones, but Joe will help out the liberals there.
The New Yorker, Trump and Putin, a love story. The attraction is mutual, but history shows who's really using whom.
Again, hints of the dossier fake collusion hoax narrative there. Let's go to story number two,
which would be Yahoo magazine by the now discredited, at least on this story,
Michael Isikoff, who was a key player in promoting the PP stuff. So here's issacoff's article at yahoo magazine michael issacoff yahoo
michael is it called yahoo there we go it makes it into the show u.s intel officials probe ties
between trump advisor and kremlin michael issacoff what's the date on that paul is that september
september right yeah september 2016 joe i checking again, we have two sources now, Paul and you. September is, in fact, before November, correct?
Yes, yes.
Tough one, Joe. It's like, man, thank God I ate my Wheaties this morning. Joe's like, no, there's going to be all these tough questions. Yes, that is, in fact, before the election. So that's number two.
um let's go to david corn another discredited collusion hoaxer himself uh david corn at mother jones let's see if this was in fact before the november election david corn mother jones um a
veteran spy has given the fbi information alleging a russian operative to cultivate uh donald trump
interesting david corn what is that day paul is that october of 2016 that is paul now joe again i
did you take your like uh prevagen your cognitive enhancers this morning um october is before
november correct just just again 10 11 yeah uh-huh thank you he's got to go to the numbers
joe's got to go to the numbers the actual names october confusing him so he's going to the number
designations for the month because he just wants to be sure
because he doesn't want to let the audience know.
Again, thank God he had his coffee this morning.
Okay, let's try one more because you may say to yourself, no way.
This can't possibly be.
The media is saying they didn't leak the dossier before the election.
We didn't do this to Trump like what they're doing to Biden now.
No, you didn't.
The information on Trump was actually fake.
The Biden information is real.
Here we go. Slate Magazine, Franklin Ford was a Trump server.
Remember the Alpha Bank thing in the dossier, the Trump server communicating with Alpha Bank and ran Russia. That nonsense was a Trump server communicating with Russia. There you go. Slate
Magazine. You know what? Just for for let's call it hits and giggles. You can figure that out.
Let's go to one more here.
Let's go to NBC, you know,
Credible News.
Oh, look,
Ken Delaney,
a noted collusion hoaxer,
Ken Delaney,
Fusion Ken Delaney.
Here it is.
What's the date on that?
Is that October 31st too?
Gosh, thank God I got pretty good vision.
October 31st,
October,
Joe, one more time.
I'm really sorry.
I know you had to express those words.
Is October again before November?
You have to go to the numbers, go to the numbers.
But that is before the November election, correct?
I can't remember, but I think that's what I said just a couple minutes ago.
There you go.
Joe just confirming before that he was not inaccurate when he stated October is before November before.
There's Fusion Ken, in fact, reporting on the PP document as well.
The fake PP hoax.
It doesn't matter what I'm telling you, that the facts are out there and the interweb.
You can look these articles up yourself.
By the way, hat tip the great undercover Huber for that.
But get ready for narrative number two after its Russia disinformation.
Well, that's going to collapsing right now.
As of this morning, narrative number two be, it's a political hit.
And we didn't do this to Trump with the dossier.
No, no, you did.
And the difference is the dossier and the PP dossier was fake.
And you still did it before the election.
Yet the Hunter Biden stuff is, in fact, real.
All right, we have an election special coming up this week um i'm hoping to get steve cortez who's
fantastic from the trump campaign um actually emailing him right now looks like that's going
to happen um and i want to interview robert from the trafalgar group i think it's call call hey
um but the trafalgar group was one of the few polling outfits that got the 2016 election right
and he's going to become, that's confirmed.
And we're going to talk to him about some of the polling as well, because they're showing a whole
different election than the election you've been told about by the mainstream media.
Quickly on this point, before I get to some other stuff, including Bidenomics,
interesting article at Bongino.com. We love Bongino.com. We try not to promote our own
stuff and help out other people, but once in a while while it's an article so good i'd like you to read it uh matt palumbo the
great matt palumbo has got a fantastic book coming out about the disaster up in new york i'm gonna
promote for him matt palumbo biden campaign manager polls are inflated and the race is closer
than the media believes i didn't read that wrong. It doesn't say Trump campaign manager. That's the Biden campaign manager saying to people crystal clear, Biden is not up by double digits, ladies
and gentlemen. These polls are inflated. They're oversampling Democrats. That's the Biden people
saying, not the Trump people. Read the article. Be up in the show notes today and up at Bongino.com.
Here's a quote from it. During a recent grassroots summit, Dylan, who's the campaign manager for Biden,
said that despite the national polls claims,
Biden is not, quote,
Biden is not up by double digits.
And another quote,
those are inflated national public polling numbers.
I'm out of the predictions game.
I'm just telling you,
these polls are not right, folks.
They're not right. There is something off here. It doesn't match up with the public enthusiasm,
the voter enthusiasm gap on the ground. What I'm seeing, it doesn't match up with anything.
Here's another article by the Washington Examiner. If Trump's down by 10 and 15 and 20 points and 15 points, then why is the early voting?
And again, early voting in no way dispositive, but early voting an indicator nonetheless,
and a data point we should use. Early voting numbers are a fact. We can tell how many Democrats
and how many Republicans return their ballots. It's a fact. How you feel about that fact is up
to you. I'm going to give you an opinion on that fact. Washington Examiner piece by the great Michael Lee up in the show notes. Actually, I don't know Michael Lee. I
don't know if he's great, but let's assume he is. Headline, early voting data in battleground
states shows Trump outpacing national polls, giving Biden an edge. I thought he was down by
10 points and five points in battleground states. the peace the gop's keeping pace and mail in
early voting in three key swing states despite polls showing early voting should clearly favor
joe biden again folks data data your feelings about the data is up to you goes on data out of
michigan wisconsin and ohio Ohio indicates that registered Republicans are returning ballots at about the same rate as registered Democrats in the battleground states.
Listen, ladies, gents, however you decide to feel about that and interpret it, again, it's an opinion and it's up to you and it's fair game.
But it doesn't ignore or dissolve the fact that we've been told early voting should favor Democrats who favor voting by mail more than Republicans.
Everybody copy?
down by five and 10 points in some cases, then how is it that even though Democrats state they prefer voting by mail, that the early voting shows a tie of returns by Republicans and Democrats?
The answer is I don't trust these polls at all. And we'll see during the election show what Robert
from Trafalgar Group has to say about that. It's going to be an interesting question.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
we got to start talking about
serious nuts and bolts stuff.
This is really important.
What will a Biden campaign for office
if it results in a Biden presidency?
What damage will it do?
Because it will do damage. The question right now is, it's a marginal one. It's not a black or white one.
The question is, is a Biden campaign that results in a Biden presidency going to result in damage
to your wallet? It's how much damage can you put a number on it? Thanks to a new study by three
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editorial section today, op-ed section, the cost of Bidenomics. A new study on Biden's tax,
healthcare, energy, and regulation proposals predicts $6,500 less in median household income by 2030.
God forbid Joe Biden is elected president.
Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Haslett, Casey Mulligan, and forgive me, the third author,
it's escaping me for a moment.
They put together this research piece here.
It's phenomenal.
It puts a hard number on how much damage to your business and your personal income
this Biden presidency is going to be. Forget the corruption stuff for a minute. It is the
more important story. It's why I covered it first. But this is important for you and your kitchen
table, the damage this man is going to do. Let's go to the piece and pick out the highlights here.
Quote from the Wall Street Journal piece. The authors of the study estimate that the Biden
agenda, if fully implemented,
would reduce full-time equivalent employment per person by about 3%. It would reduce the capital
stock per person by some 15%, real GDP per person by more than 8%. Compared to CBO estimates for these variables in 2030, this means there would be, get a
load of this one, 4.9 million fewer working Americans, 2.6 trillion less in GDP, and $6,500
less in median household income.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Joe Biden is proposing draconian, third-world-like confiscatory tax rates that will suck money out of your wallet, your business, and your household at a rate you have not seen before.
There are massive middle-class tax hikes planned.
That's a fact. He's threatened to repeal the middle-class tax
cuts Trump instituted, which would mean your tax are going up dramatically. Your social security
taxes are going to go up, your income taxes, your capital gains taxes, corporate taxes.
If you want a business, your pass-through rates, if you want a business where you declare your
income as personal are going to go up dramatically. In many cases, upwards of 50% you are going to be paying to the federal government. This is not hard to figure out. As Milton Friedman said, there are four ways
to spend money, right? You can spend money on yourself. Cost and quality matter. You can spend
money on other people. Cost matters. Quality, not so much. You're buying something for someone else.
Other people can spend other people's money on themselves. Cost doesn't matter. It's other people's money. But quality does. You're buying something for
yourself. Joe's paying for my hotel room. I want the suite and the penthouse.
And then you can do what government does, the most inefficient way to take and spend money.
Other people spending other people's money on other people. Cost doesn't matter. It's not your
money. Quality doesn't matter either.
You're not even buying anything for yourself. You're just spending money on other people.
What do you care about the quality? What does that have to do with Biden?
When you suck money out of the economy and you have other people, Congress, spending other
people's money, you the taxpayer, on other people, other taxpayers. The inefficiency is legendary because neither cost nor quality of these programs matter.
That is what Joe Biden's threatening to do. That's why these economists who are terrific,
Hazlitt, Mulligan, and their third partner, forgive me, it's in the article,
are predicting a massive, massive drop in economic output.
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, you've been warned.
You've been warned.
I don't know what else to tell you.
If you're a liberal or a Democrat and you listen to my show, I'm not kidding.
You're welcome here.
I know I, you know, drop tactical nukes on your head sometimes because I don't like liberal
stupidity, but you are welcome to listen to the show.
I'm not a tech tyrant, free speech opponent or enemy
of it.
I'm just telling you, if you vote for it,
this is what you're voting for.
A $6,500
drop in household median income?
Not $650.
$6,500.
$6,500.
That's people's mortgage
for the whole year in some cases i mean that's rent goodbye gone all right i want to get to my last story because it's important
uh we've i've covered kind of briefly in the barisma hunter biden uh biden crime family
segment there about the devastating emails
from Ukraine, China, Moscow payments to the Biden family and elsewhere and Twitter and Facebook's
effort to make this go away. Well, thunderstorm outside there. You hear that? Lucy doesn't care.
Lucy's like, whatever. I just ate your Fox news microphone. I'm good. It was tasty. I got my
vitamin K for the day or whatever. Lucy's like, what's thunder? I don't need that. I'm full. How's your microphone
taste? Fill me right up. Lucy the Wonder Duck. But folks, there is a serious conversation to
be had about Twitter and Facebook. Now, again, disclosure, again, I have to do, I am one of the,
again, owners of Parler, which is a rival to Twitter. It's only fair to put that out there.
There are some new listeners to the show. I know others are tired of hearing it.
Parler had a great week, by the way.
Thank you.
We were still in the top five in the app store because people are tired of Twitter and their
nonsense.
So we do appreciate that.
P-A-R-L-E-R, if you'd like to jump on board there.
But folks, being one of the owners, investors in Parler, I do have an intimate inside baseball
knowledge about what goes on with
tech companies and how it works. There's a big conversation right now about repealing Section
230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 basically says that these social media companies
can claim platform status rather than publisher status. To be clear, a publisher is someone like
the New York Times.
If they publish an article and say, Dan Bongino is from Mars, we know it, we've seen his DNA,
the article's obviously false. I don't know. Who knows? Maybe I am from Mars. I doubt it,
but I can sue them as a publisher and say, listen, you published this. It was an editorial decision.
It is defamatory and false. I want money damages. And I have taken that track with another publisher I felt defamed me. When you get platform status, so we're clear,
is everybody following me? When you get platform status, it is very difficult to sue a platform
because the platform is saying, we're not a publisher. People post things on Twitter and
Facebook. We're not responsible. Therefore, if Joey Bag of Donuts posts Dan Bongino's from Mars on Facebook, I can sue
the person to be clear, but I can't sue Facebook.
Facebook's like, no, no, we're not a publisher.
We're a platform.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is what enables websites and social media
companies to claim platform status.
Very simple.
There has been a call now amongst many, which I
have to be clear, and I have been from the start, I think is a bad idea. And it was summed up nicely
by the Wall Street Journal today by Andy Kessler, who's brilliant. And by the way, he's not a
liberal by any stretch, about why repealing Section 230 is going to be a really bad idea and will lead
to more tech censorship, not less.
Wall Street Journal, Andy Kessler, no quick fix for social media bias.
Stripping sites of their liability protection might spur more unfair censorship.
Folks, I've warned about this repeatedly.
I've seen this from the inside.
I don't speak for Parler.
They have their own PR department.
They can do their own thing.
I'm telling you, even though I do have a financial interest in them, I'm telling you as an independent person,
this is a really bad idea to repeal 230 protections. Why? Don't listen to me. Listen
to Kessler. He sums it up beautifully. If we take away this platform status,
If we take away this platform status, Section 230 will end up with more censorship. He says, why? Because if platforms are suddenly liable for everything posted, comments, Facebook comments, tweets, comments under a whatever, New York Post comment section or something like that.
the knee-jerk reaction will be to take down everything questionable leaving us with giant receptacles of baby shark videos which would diminish the channel's small business uh use to
reach customers say goodbye to competition too yes i know there are hundreds of smaller social
media competitors one i'm involved with by the way's right, that wouldn't be able to afford the software, let alone the tens of thousands of humans to take down every
quote questionable post.
Folks, I'm sorry.
I know a lot of you will disagree.
I know it.
And that's fair.
I respect and value my audience, but I'm never going to lie to you.
I can't jump on this train.
It has nothing to do with anything.
By the way, in case any of you think, which is fair, well, Dan, you got involved with
Parler and it would crush you guys too.
So maybe there's a conflict of interest.
Way before I was involved at Parler, I warned you about the damages could be done to tech
companies before I even knew about Parler.
You will spur more tech censorship, not less. It is not the answer.
I am really sorry to put this out. It is not the answer. Now, I owe you an answer. So what
is the answer? I said it on Fox and Friends this morning. You understand why, right?
If they lose their platform status and they can be sued for any comment on Twitter and Facebook, they're going to pull down everything.
Everything.
Because they don't want to be sued.
It's not hard to figure out.
And when I say everything, I mean pretty much everything conservatives say.
And they'll say, no, no, we pulled that conservative.
We were afraid of being sued.
The better way to do it is to, on these platforms, let people use their own filters.
Twitter has it now.
Muted words.
Mute words.
You don't want to hear about whatever voter integrity measures.
You think it's a Republican talking point?
Just mute it.
I don't care.
You don't like my commentary?
Go to Twitter.
Go to settings.
Put in muted words and mute Dan Bongino.
But these algorithms have got to stop. I'm with you a hundred percent that the algorithms that
selectively filter out conservative content, it is a terrible business decision and the algorithms
have got to stop. There should be an option to mute words and filter content or else it's open
season and the platforms are not responsible.
Outside of criminality, pornography and stuff that would break FCC rules, we get that.
But other than that, political opinions, it should be open season.
One more thing.
There should be no interference whatsoever with campaign information.
None.
None.
be no interference whatsoever with campaign information. None. None. The FEC should get involved with Twitter. And that complaint is a valid one that Twitter will see where it goes
legally. We'll see where it goes with the FEC. But it is a valid complaint that Twitter removed
damaging information to the Biden campaign before an election and still hasn't removed damaging
information about the Trump campaign in the last election that was debunked and has already proven false, like the Michael
Cohen Prague story. They haven't removed that. These are legitimate Federal Election Commission
campaign violation complaints that should be investigated. Those are the solutions.
But ladies and gentlemen, 230 repeal, I'm telling you, will be a disaster for conservatives.
Remember, you heard it here first.
This is not a good idea.
It's not.
And I've said this for three years now.
Three years.
You can go back and check the show.
If Judy gets back to me, I will give you the show number.
And you can go listen to yourself way before I was involved with any of this stuff.
All right,
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