The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - August 20, 2022

Episode Date: August 20, 2022

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Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. The deep state's panicking right now over what has turned out to be a debacle for them in the Mar-a-Lago raid. Why is it a debacle, Dan? They hate Trump.

They can't stand Trump. They raided his home. Folks, this thing has turned so fast on them because you've kept the heat on. I've said that over the last few days since it happened. You need to keep the heat on. Keep calling your congressman, email them, keep posting on social media. You have a voice. If a hundred people follow you on Twitter and Facebook and truth,

it's a hundred people are going to see what you posted about this debacle. Keep the heat on. How do we know they're in a panic? There are poker tells everywhere. You're a poker player. Not really, but a friend of mine is a good, I know how to play, but a friend of mine's a very good one. Not going to say who, but like a world-class poker player. He's incredible. We used to talk a lot and he'd say, listen, they all, even the best poker players in the world,

they'll slip, they have a tell. You can see when they're nervous, they'll do something. And if you get really good at it, you'll see those micro expressions. The deep state has a tell everywhere. Here it is, NBC News. Justice Department is now asking the judge to keep Trump's search warrant affidavit sealed. Oh, citing the investigation. Oh, that's convenient. It's only one of the biggest overreaches of power and abuses of government power in United States history. How do you know what's the, this is the easiest, we'll get into the more detailed tells the biggest overreaches of power and abuses of government power in united states history

how do you know what's the this is the easiest we'll get into the more detailed tells that require a little nuance in a minute but what's the biggest tell of all what's the biggest tell of all who's just ask yourself now libs just ask yourself for a moment who's calling for transparency here in other words we got nothing to hide and who's calling for transparency here? In other words, we got nothing to hide. And who's calling to hide stuff? The government wants to hide stuff and Donald Trump is calling for transparency. So if the information in the affidavit, in other words, what the agent swore in front of the judge

to get the search warrant, right? That's the affidavit. The affiant is the person swearing to it. It's the story they tell the judge to establish probable cause to get the warrant, right? That's the affidavit. The affiant is the person swearing to it. It's the story they tell the judge to establish probable cause to get the warrant, right? If that information is so, I'm just asking you a common sense question. If that information is so damaging to Donald Trump,

then why is Donald Trump openly on True Social and elsewhere calling to release the affidavit while the Department of Justice under joe biden the fbi want to hide it why why is that anybody anybody have any theories on that joe he anyone kind of strange right yeah maybe yeah sounds a little weird right one side say hey let's let's see the goods the other guy said i don't know we're just gonna hide the goods maybe because they're not the goods yeah they don't want to see something i guess maybe they're not the goods. Yeah, they don't want us to see something. I guess. Maybe they're the bads. Maybe they're the bads. Yeah, yeah. Now,

here's another tell. Here's another tell that there's a problem. Something's rotting in the state of Denmark here. Ladies and gentlemen, whenever they trot out, Fusion and Ken Delanian, you know the deep state's in trouble. Now,

who is Ken Delanian? Ken Delanian, you know, you know, the deep state's in trouble. Now who is Ken Delanian? Ken Delanian is a fake news specialist. Ken Delanian has been a mouthpiece for the deep state forever. I'll show you in a minute. This is nothing new. So the way it works is they have reporters and stuff in their back pocket, these deep staters in the Intel community, the federal bureaucracy, these reporters, again, I use, they have very little dignity at all, and they don't take their jobs seriously. They're activists, right? They're not actual journalists.

So they know they can feed them a preset narrative, and with doing no investigative journalism whatsoever, these reporters, air quotes, will repeat what they say on the air. You get it? They're like megaphones. They're echo chambers.

Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken. That's what they do. Whenever you see Ken Delanian on NBC trying to cover up for them hiding the warrant, you know that they are terrified about what's in that affidavit. We'll get into that in a second. Here's cut one of Ken Delanian first yesterday at NBC explaining how, oh man, this thing is so dangerous to Trump. It's so bad. There's so much stuff. Really? Why does Trump want it released then? So of course,

the deep state had to give him his talking points. Watch this. It's hilarious. They actually addressed the question of, well, can't you just release it and make some redactions? They have blacking out the names of confidential sources or particularly sensitive details. And they essentially said in the first footnote of the document, if we did that, we would have so many areas blacked out that you wouldn't understand a word this thing was saying. Now, I'll explain to you why that's just again, that's just him repeating what they told him to say because they have no case. I'll explain what that's about in a minute. Oh, we'd have to black out the whole thing.

All right, well, black out the whole thing. We want to see it. Black out the whole thing. We want to see what you blacked out. We want to see how long it is. They don't want to do that either. Really strange, right? Here's Ken Delaney, and again, just the other day.

Remember, this guy is a stenographer for the deep state he does no investigative jury he doesn't he's not an investigative journalist he's an activist for the deep state whenever you see this guy on NBC talking just assume you're talking to a deep state or listening I should say to a deep stater here he is the other day again another poker tell check this out Ken what do we know about the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago? Good morning, Andrea. Well, the warrant tells us the FBI sees five sets of documents marked top secret. And that means information that, if disclosed, would pose exceptionally grave danger to U.S. national security. But among that was one set marked top secret sensitive compartmented information.

And as you know, Andrea, from covering the intelligence community for a long time, that means information that's so secret only a small group of people inside the U.S. government can see it. Those who have a need to know. We're talking about things like CIA names of CIA sources in Moscow or images from the most advanced spy satellites. This information was so sensitive that the FBI agents who took it out of Mar-a-Lago would have had to take it to a special facility. We're talking about the most protected secrets in the U.S. government. I can't get over this guy. Notice what they told him to say, where the location is the spy satellite, where what they're looking at, nuclear codes and everybody. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And everybody just said NBC is like takes it to face value.

You wonder if Ken Delaney did any investigative work. Is that what was actually there? Well, maybe not, but that's what it could have been. Yeah, yeah, it could have been a lot of things. It could have been who's buried in Grant's tomb, too. Liberals are like, huh? They're still confused. It could have been a lot of things.

Now, because something was labeled T-S-S-C-I does not mean it still is. You may say, yeah, Dan, we've already heard that point that President Trump can declassify. No, no, I'm not even talking about that. Notice how Delanian jumps to the most extreme example. Spying information. Oh my gosh. And the alleged journalists on the set there, they're all just sucking it in as if it's true.

Let me give you a quick example of why they told Delanian to say that. Because, folks, because something was TSSCI doesn't mean it still is. That's top secret, sensitive, compartmentalized information. Quick example. We were at the Secret Service, right? We did motorcade routes. The president's motorcade route. This is an example you need to use with your friends.

They'll understand. The president's motorcade route before the trip is out. A lot of it is top secret, especially overseas in terror hot zones. Sometimes we would feed the media fake motorcade routes. Why? Obviously, you don't want the terrorists setting up on a motorcade route to kill you. We're going to be here at this time, guys. So it was top secret. Get it? Marked top secret. Then all of a sudden, a trip happens. The motorcade route, we drive it, we drive it back, and he's gone. Now, let me ask you a question. Is the motorcade route we drive it we drive it back and he's gone now let me ask you a

question is the motorcade route top secret it was marked top secret gee why would it not be top secret after the trip just let me throw that out there can you figure this out you're a smart guy because he's no longer there he already rode on the motorcade route everybody knows it they saw him and waved you see what the lady it's doing here for the deep state people just because a box marked tssci or labeled as it says in the return labeled and they labeled it a26 or whatever doesn't mean it was they're panicking do you get them you get the nuance right they're like ken listen we served the search warrant we found nothing of any criminal significance at all we need a big favor buddy go out there and say it was spy satellites in a nuclear yeah man okay and

everybody just sucks it up here's who ken delaney it is i don't usually put older pieces in the newsletter but this is in the newsletter today bongino.com slash newsletter please read it it's from my birthday december 4th back in 2017 it's by the great lee smith he talks about the media's role in the fusion gps pp tape scandal it's a federalist piece called fusion gps scam scandal implicates media impossible pay to publish scheme pay to publish scheme look who he mentions in the piece mentions of course uh uh ken delanian he says a reporter bill browder believes to be a regular and reliable purveyor of fusion gps manufactured talking points lee smith's opinion remember delanian lee alleges in his piece uh that uh an insider browder believes he was a purveyor of talking

points there for fusion gps the company hired by hillary clinton the pp hoaxers ken delanian's not new at this folks there's a tell here now been about 10 minutes so let me kind of sum up I should have just dropped the lead up front the tell about what why Delaney and why others why are they hiding the affidavit why is Donald Trump calling for transparency

where the FBI and DOJ are panicking desperately trying to hide the affidavit because folks as I said to you yesterday the warrant the warrant was BS the whole time trying to hide the affidavit. Because folks, as I said to you yesterday, the warrant, the warrant was BS the whole time. It was just an excuse to search Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago for January 6th stuff and for Russiagate documents. I am now completely convinced.

And what happened? They found nothing. So now in a panic, they'll refuse to release this thing, citing national security reasons and law enforcement sensitive information. They'll refuse to release this stuff and they'll do it in order to prevent you

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I was a federal agent. I've served a ton of search warrants, been involved in the White House and the protection side. I want to go through some takeaways here from this point here, some of the open and unanswered questions, because this thing is getting uglier by the minute. Ken Delaney, and again, just assume someone in the deep state is talking when Delaney is opening,

he's like a parrot for them, right? If he says, listen, the affidavit, we'd have to black out a lot of stuff because there's classified info in there you would wonder to yourself if you were a smart federal agent why let me explain and guys if this is complicated stop me as the audience uh on bud's been there on my cost right when i'm a federal agent i want to get a search warrant i real number one i typically get an arrest warrant with a search warrant but i'll i'll explain that in a minute if i'm getting a search warrant for joe'll explain that in a minute. If I'm getting a search warrant for Joe's house for robbing a bank, right? One of the things I want to do in the search warrant, because I realize if I find stuff I need to arrest Joe, if I don't have an arrest warrant at the same

time, the search warrant is going to become available to his lawyer at some point after I arrest him. I don't want them to know right away before I secure a plea from Joe what I got. Do you get what I'm saying? In order to hold over Joe's head the, hey, you might want to cooperate, in other words, wink it or not, there's more stuff out there.

I'm not putting all my cards out in the affidavit for the search warrant. I'm putting the minimum amount of stuff I need to establish to a judge probable cause that I believe evidence is in Mar-a-Lago. I'm not loading it up with classified information. So why is Ken Delaney and saying there's a bunch of classified information in there? No,

the answer. Oh, maybe they did that on purpose, knowing if they didn't find anything, that Donald Trump would call for the affidavit to be released and they would load it up with classified stuff and say, time out, time out.

We can't release that. It's classified info in there. Devious. Genius genius but devious we are dealing with a very very sophisticated group of political opponents here very sophisticated i now have little doubt that that's exactly what happened they loaded it up with unnecessary information that was classified so that they could go back later and say, what an ass. It's on our call and our releases. There's classified info in there. It's point number one. I'm sorry. I got so much I want to get to. I don't want to miss anything. I'm taking notes during the show. Obviously, you see I'm excited about this story. Excited

because it's breaking so bad against him. Another question. If the information in the affidavit in front of the judge that they can't release, even though Trump is demanding it, was so sensitive and so dangerous, what they claim they have probable cause to believe they're looking for. Not a guess, Joe. They are probable cause to believe that this is a high standard. If the information was so classified, spy satellites, nuclear codes, nuclear weapons, it's all going to end.

So dangerous. Then how come when they showed up in early June, the FBI and the DOJ, they left without the documents? They asked Adam Schiff for this the other day. They asked him on a show, hey, why did they wait so long after Trump left office if this information was so dangerous? If there was that sensitive level of information being held, why did Justice Department officials wait 18 months after the end of the Trump presidency? What changed that made this immediate? I don't know. But if the Trump people represented that they provided all the classified or national security information and didn't, that's a serious problem.

And I can tell you anyone in the intelligence community that had documents like that marked top secret SCI in their residence after authorities went to them, you know, they would be under serious investigation. That was Schiff. He has no answer as to why they waited so long. If according to the affidavit, this is the most dangerous national security situation we've seen in so much. So we have to black out everything, Joe. It's a big black dot. I got a cover tattoo once on a tattoo I didn't like. And the tattoo was so so big the guy said to me, you have two choices. This black eagle or a big black dot to cover it. Big black dot. Big black dot.

That's a true story, by the way. The danger was so acute. They had a blackout with a big black dot. Everything in the affidavit. Yet they left the documents there. Again, strange. Also, I heard on cable news the other morning,

someone say, well, Donald Trump only requested that they release the document, the affidavit for the search warrant, because he knows they can't release it. Oh, he does? Well, that's kind of the dumbest talking point I've ever heard. Why is that? Because, Joee they're going through a procedure right now that the fbi doj objected to to release

the document so did am i confused so i was a federal agent again i'm a little confused so there is a process to release the affidavit. They're going through it right now. Well, how do we know that's true? One, because I'm telling you it's true. But secondly, because I just showed you a headline saying in the process, this news personality said doesn't exist. The DOJ objected to releasing it in the process. He claims isn't going on right now. Okay.

Yeah. You're confused me too yes so just to be clear tv guy says trump knows that they can't release it so he's going through the process where they can release it which the doj is objecting to so how is there isn't a process they're not if they're going through the process now. Got it. You just, you just don't like the process. That's the problem. The Dan Bongino show. If you'd like to hear more,

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