The Dan Bongino Show - The Evidence is Right There in Front of Your Eyes (Ep 1398)

Episode Date: November 20, 2020

In this episode, I discuss the explosive allegations leveled at yesterday’s Trump-team press conference. I also address the two most important pieces of the Trump team strategy.  News Picks: Demo...crats and the media are reaping the fruit of years of crazy conspiracy theories.  There is evidence of fraud, it’s right there in front of their eyes. Key swing states see mail in ballot rejection rates suspiciously plummet.  Recount witnesses swear they witnessed suspicious vote counting behavior.  Hunter Biden had deep ties to suspect figures in China.  Red states continue leading the economic recovery while blue states lag. Debunking myths about taxes and the deficit. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:40 Dan Bongino. You know, folks, we all think for ourselves, right? You are the smartest audience out there. I know because I communicate with you. I read your responses on Parler, Facebook, Twitter, elsewhere. I see your emails. Brilliant, brilliant responses. Sometimes some of the show content is dictated by what you respond back to me. But we think for ourselves.
Starting point is 00:01:02 We don't need media personalities me or otherwise telling you how to think my job is to give you the facts what we know sometimes my opinion about the facts but it's not designed to in any way tell you to think like automatons we're not the borg from star trek i want you may be saying where's this coming from i'm going to cover this on the show today there was a um an opening monologue by Tucker Carlson last night on Fox, and it's just resulted in this just back and forth between, you know, like a team Tucker and not team Tucker and team Fox and not team Fox and pro Trump. We're going to put that, we're going to stick with the facts today because the facts matter.
Starting point is 00:01:41 I got that. And I've got the two things out of yesterday's press conference that really you should take away with the most important things Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell brought up. They're critical and they're real and they're not conspiracy theories like the left like to say. Today's show brought to you by ExpressVPN. We got a loaded show today. Don't go anywhere. ExpressVPN, protect your online activity from prying eyeballs. Get a VPN. Go to expressvpn.com slash Bongino today. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, in your worst 1960s game show voice, how are you today? Fine, sir.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Well, I'm doing well, Dan, because it's Friday. Yeah, that's no conspiracy theory. That's definitely not. It is most definitely Friday. It's Friday. Yeah, I need that once no conspiracy theory. That's definitely not. It is most definitely Friday. That's right. Yeah, I need that once in a while. Feeling good today. Good to see you laughing, bro.
Starting point is 00:02:31 It's a good sign. Yes, sir. Yeah, yeah, that is, right? Yeah, I know. It's kind of a rough. Yeah, man. I slept great last night. I was out, totally out.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Good. Like walking dead zombie like out. Out. Paul had to like shake me. She took the iPhone, put it under my nose. You okay? You okay? I see little bits of wind coming out of your nose.
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Starting point is 00:04:27 That's AmericanMind.org and subscribe to the newsletter today. AmericanMind.org. Subscribe to the newsletter today. All right, Joe, let's go. There it is. Nice. So, I debated, deliberated long and strong about how to handle this today. Because we have this, I don't know, we have this thing on the right.
Starting point is 00:04:52 We tend to fall into sometimes this Borg-like mentality where, you know, we have to jump into one camp or another camp rather than just digesting what people say and thinking for ourselves. Well, we think for ourselves here because you're the smartest audience in the business, and I don't care what anybody says. I do what I want because it's my show. It's not an accident that I found the guy by the name of Dan Bongino to host the Dan Bongino show.
Starting point is 00:05:14 It's my show. We do what I want. Here's what I'm getting at. Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani did a press conference yesterday, and there was some really big and bold allegations thrown out there of a large conspiracy to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. There was a lot of stuff in there yesterday. Tucker Carlson covered it on his show last night. Sidney Powell was one of the attorneys. You're all familiar with Sidney. I've had her on the show. She was General Mike Flynn's lawyer. She's now working for the Trump team and made a really serious boatload of allegations yesterday.
Starting point is 00:05:47 So Tucker Carlson went on last night and said, listen, I invited her on the show. These are some bold claims. And we're going to address what happened on both sides. I'm going to give you Sidney Powell's response in a second. But we need to get to the facts here and not get into like who said what, who said. It's not about teams. It's about what happened. It's no time for personality wars.
Starting point is 00:06:06 So check out the Tucker coverage of the press conference that generated all kinds of controversy last night. Here's part one. All of which brings us to the bombshell at the center of today's press conference. That was delivered by former prosecutor Sidney Powell, who has also served as General Mike Flynn's lawyer. For more than a week, Powell has been all over conservative media with the following story. This election was stolen by a collection of international leftists who manipulated vote tabulating software in order to flip millions of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The other day on television, Powell said of Trump that when the fraud is finally uncovered, quote, I think we'll find he had at least 80 million votes. In other words, rigged software stole about 7 million votes in this election.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Here's some of what Powell said today about the software. One of its most characteristic features is its ability to flip votes. It can set and run an algorithm that probably ran all over the country to take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President Biden, which we might never have uncovered had the votes for President Trump not been so overwhelming in so many of these states that it broke the algorithm that had been plugged into the system. And that's what caused them to have to shut down in the states they shut down in. Whoa. Think about that. So Sidney Powell is alleging there at the presser yesterday, there was an algorithm built into the
Starting point is 00:07:38 voting system in many states, an algorithm basically preset, maybe figuring, I'm trying to kind of sum this up in an easy to understand way that, you know, Trump may win by one percentage point. So we'll have to flip this many votes, but the Trump's turnout and his vote count was so high and he did so well that it broke the algorithm. There was a last minute panic to get votes in and mess with the algorithm at the last minute. That panic caused them to get careless and that's how they discovered it. That's kind of in essence what she's alleging there. Make sense?
Starting point is 00:08:15 That's an enormous allegation. Obviously that allegation would be, as was described by Tucker in this cut I'm going to play next, probably accurately so as the crime of the century. I've spoken to Sidney Powell. I know Sidney Powell well. I know Sidney Powell personally and professionally throughout our time, and I've known Sidney for a long time.
Starting point is 00:08:36 Sidney hasn't disappointed us yet. Does she have the data to back this up in court? We're going to find that out. The question now is, does she owe it to anyone, including people on television? She doesn't owe it to anybody. She owes it to the courts to produce that evidence in court if she can back it up. But it's not automatically illegitimate because it wasn't produced for a host on any show, this show, Tucker's show, or anyone else.
Starting point is 00:09:04 Well, apparently Tucker Carlson invited her on the show, Sidney Powell, and she wanted to come on. So again, this was part two. This is the part that generated, that was the allegation part where Tucker put it out there. This is the part of Tucker's show that's generating a whole lot of this social media back and forth today, which candidly, I think is a distraction. We have to keep our eyes on the prize, folks. Check this out. We took Sidney Powell seriously. We had no intention of fighting with her. We've always respected her work. We simply wanted to see the details. How could you not want to see them? So we invited Sidney Powell on the show. We would have given her the whole hour. We would have given her the entire week, actually, and listened quietly the whole time at rapt attention.
Starting point is 00:09:42 That's a big story. But she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of requests, polite requests, not a page. When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her. When we checked with others around the Trump campaign, people in positions of authority, they told us Powell has never given them any evidence either, nor did she provide any today at the press conference. Powell did say that electronic voting is dangerous, and she's right. We're with her there. But she never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another, not one. Sidney Powell disputes that. We're going to play her side of this in a moment.
Starting point is 00:10:20 But folks, let me add my two cents here for what it's worth. My opinion, you can choose to run with it, discard it, whatever you choose. But this is my opinion. I just want to be crystal clear. Sidney Powell owes it to us in the court system when Sidney Powell is good and damn ready. If she feels she has a case, she has no obligation whatsoever to make that case on cable news or elsewhere. None. Not on this show or anyone else's show. And if she doesn't have a case, then it's her reputation on the line. She'll have to live with that. But she doesn't owe it to me,
Starting point is 00:10:56 Tucker, Fox News, the Dan Bongino Show, CNN, MSNBC, or anyone else. She owes it to the voters. She owes it to the court system if she's going to file a case. And if not, and it turns out
Starting point is 00:11:10 that information is inaccurate, then she should retract it later. But if it's not inaccurate and she has evidence to back that up, then maybe we should give her a little bit of space. I know we're running out of time.
Starting point is 00:11:24 I get it. December 8th is the safe harbor date where the states are going to have to certify for their December 14th deadline to announce their electors for whatever, whoever won the popular vote within those states and their presidential electors. I get that.
Starting point is 00:11:39 But if she has a case, she owes it to the courts to put that case out there. She doesn't owe it to us. I want to be crystal clear on that. That's not me taking anybody's side. That's me telling you what the damn facts are here, and they matter. Let's keep our eyes on what's going on here. These are serious allegations. Now, Sidney Powell appeared this morning, that was from last night, appeared this morning on Maria Bartiromo's show on Fox and gave her response to the allegations by Tucker Carlson. Here was what Sidney Powell Powell told. Excuse me, Maria Bartiromo. Check this out.
Starting point is 00:12:13 All right, Sidney, I want you to respond to what Tucker Carlson said last night, Sidney. I don't know if you watched it, but Tucker Carlson said that he had invited you on his show to share evidence of the software flipping votes. And he said you got angry and refused to provide evidence for your claims of voting software flipping votes. How do you respond to Tucker Carlson? Did you get angry with the show because they texted you and asked you to please provide evidence of what you're alleging? No, I didn't get angry with the request to provide evidence. In fact, I sent an affidavit to Tucker that I had not even attached to a pleading yet to help him understand the situation. And I offered him another witness who could explain the mathematics and statistical evidence far better than I can. I'm not really a numbers person, but he was very insulting, demanding, and rude, and I
Starting point is 00:13:12 told him not to contact me again in those terms. Clearly, both of those stories can't be true, right? Either one side of it that no evidence was presented is true, or the other side of it where evidence was presented is true. But those two, they can't coexist at the same time. We'll see where that goes. But I want to encourage you before I move on to, again, more facts and data here. Keep your eyes on the prize, and let's not get distracted by making stories about what these stories aren't about. These
Starting point is 00:13:50 stories are about the most important election in our lifetime, and if there was significant enough fraud or malfeasance to question the results we have now. That is the question. That is the only question that matters.
Starting point is 00:14:05 When she's ready, we're ready to hear it. Now, ladies and gentlemen, these claims that there are no evidence of fraud are utterly absurd. The press conference yesterday with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney and others, Jenna Ellis, there were numerous data points of evidence presented yesterday. Our good friend Amber Athe at The Spectator has an article up, which is going to be in the show notes today. Go to bongino.com slash newsletter
Starting point is 00:14:33 if you'd like to access our newsletters, show notes, same thing. There is evidence, actually. The Spectator, Rudy Giuliani gave examples of voter fraud during his presser at RNC headquarters by Amber Athe. Folks, again, the tendency by some weak-kneed Republicans to immediately fall in line with acceptable media narratives on the left, I have to be honest with you, is quite pathetic to watch.
Starting point is 00:15:01 It's not you, it's not you in our audience, but you know exactly who I'm talking about. Rudy Giuliani yesterday, I'll get to a screenshot from this piece in a second, presented piles of sworn affidavits. Now, I get it for the media types on the left and the weak-kneed jellyfish, no backbone Republicans who don't have an ounce of integrity left here. who don't have an ounce of integrity left here. Sworn affidavits, when an affiant signs his or her name and swears under oath, the testimony they're giving in that affidavit is true, is evidence.
Starting point is 00:15:34 I don't know if you've never been involved with a civil tort case, criminal case, if you're just totally unfamiliar with legalese 101, but an affidavit sworn, a statement saying you witnessed some form of malfeasance or criminality is evidence please let's not take the marie harf approach who always go-to line for everything is you don't have evidence she just doesn't know what evidence is i actually worked in the space when you go to court and you testify as a criminal investigator, affidavits by affiants and people who are evidence,
Starting point is 00:16:14 you can cross-examine them. You can do what you'd like, but they are in fact evidence. When I went in to collect counterfeit bills on a counterfeit case, we called them runouts. Hey, you got a counterfeit runout. Go to that 7-Eleven. They have a counterfeit bill they got. You would get a sworn statement from the owner or the guy or the woman who took the bill at the 7-Eleven. I went to a lot of them in my time. That's why I bring it up. They were all over Long Island. That's where the counterfeit appeared a lot, unfortunately. And they would say, yes, on such and such a date and a time, this individual came in and handed me this bill. That's evidence. If someone in a voting location
Starting point is 00:16:56 witnesses behavior, they deem potential malfeasance. Truckloads of ballots appeared at four in the morning. They all for joe biden they were pristine they were not handled does that mean those are fraudulent ballots not necessarily could it be could is that evidence it certainly is from amber's piece so we don't buy into the media there was no evidence presented yet there was actually a lot you're just a media moron who's trying to get who's trying to advance a narrative not advance the truth and i'm tired of it quote giuliani did in fact present evidence of voter fraud today but many people simply didn't want to hear it he cited multiple americans one by name who've signed sworn
Starting point is 00:17:41 affidavits stating they witnessed some type of fraud, whether it was pro Trump ballots being thrown out without cause, ballots being backdated to before the election, poll workers being told not to ask voters for identification and more. As Giuliani helpfully pointed out, affidavits are considered evidence in a court case. Whether you agree or disagree with them is a different question. And it's reasonable that not all people who sign their names would be willing to go public.
Starting point is 00:18:11 If you want to hear more of the evidence that was presented, just watch the first hour of the press conference. We can't fall into this trap here, where again, the media starts to dictate the acceptable narrative of the day and anyone not complying with their narrative and their gaslighting is deemed not allowed in polite company. Double-barreled middle finger to you guys. We'll talk about what we want. We'll address these affidavits one by one and determine if they are in fact verifiable or not.
Starting point is 00:18:42 Don't tell me there's no evidence. verifiable or not. Don't tell me there's no evidence. You damn well know if this was evidence of Hillary Clinton votes in 2016 that were thrown out or Donald Trump votes that showed up at four o'clock in the morning in suspicious garbage bags, as Rudy alleged yesterday in the press conference, garbage bags. They had votes in garbage bags. Is that true? If it's true, isn't it worth entertaining? No, no. If those were Donald Trump votes that showed up that way, not in ballot boxes, but in garbage bags, I think Democrats would have a bunch of questions and the hack media. But of course, because they think Donald Trump lost, it's moveon.org time. Move on, folks. Move on. I'm not moving on. I'm not interested in moving on. And to all the leftists trying to intimidate me, attacking my Facebook page, attacking
Starting point is 00:19:28 my website, attacking these outbrained people, canceling our ad widgets, trying to get me to stop talking about it. I will not. I will not comply no matter what. There's nothing you can do to me. Do you understand that? There is no price you can put on nothing. Nothing. I will do what I want and talk about what I want. There's nothing you can do. The more you try to intimidate the
Starting point is 00:19:52 show, I know exactly what you're doing. The more I'll double down. All right, let me get to my second sponsor. But on the other side of this, I want to stick to the facts here because this matters because you're not going to get it from the media. There were two things said it yesterday. We already addressed Sidney Powell's, the bigger accusation of some global conspiracy, which if she has the evidence, we need to see it. But when she's ready to present it, she's making a court case. We'll see it. She doesn't owe it to me. She owes it to the court and to us as voters. But I want to get to the two line inquiries that are super important here that really,
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Starting point is 00:22:01 So there are two lines of inquiry that matter that should really raise your antenna. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Back in the back of your head. Like, was that guy Gazoo from the Jetsons? Remember the end? That was Gazoo, right? From the Jetsons. We need an antenna like that. Here are two things that jumped out to me yesterday
Starting point is 00:22:17 that stand out as bizarre anomalies not seemingly explainable without more evidence to back it up. In other words, what the hell is this? Rejection rates being unbelievably low, despite a whole bunch of new first-time mail-in ballot voters. I'll explain.
Starting point is 00:22:39 Hold on. And these uniform, pristine ballots filled out uniformly. Perfect circles in every bubble. Weird. Let's go to these rejection rates first, ladies and gentlemen, because this makes absolutely no sense. And again, as I said yesterday, folks, I'm all about Occam's razor, right? Keep it simple, stupid.
Starting point is 00:23:02 Given all possible explanations for a problem, low rejection rates. The simplest is most likely always the answer, right? Because it requires you to assume the least. Let's go to this Just the News article. In key swing states this year, mail-in ballot rejections plummeted from 2016 rates. Rates are below historical averages and significantly less than the most recent presidential election. Folks, I'm going to get to a screenshot from this in a minute, but this doesn't make any sense. I'm just asking media folks for a minute to take their tinfoil cap and blinders off and to look through the lens of just a common sense person, right? So we've had this almost unprecedented plague, at least in the last few decades in modern
Starting point is 00:23:52 times. We did this mass mail-in ballot election we have not done before. Some in states that have really very little experience with mass mail-in balloting like they did, right? Meaning what? Logic, folks, logic. It was something the media doesn't do. I voted by mail before down here in Florida. So has my wife. We're experienced in it. We know how it works. There are a lot of ways to mess up mail-in balloting. You can forget the
Starting point is 00:24:17 security sleeve. You can forget to sign the envelope. There's a number of different ways. You can mess up the ballot, marking it the wrong way. Now that I voted down here in Florida by mail, I don't know, in the last three or four elections, primaries and generals, we're pretty experienced and my ballots have not been rejected. Are you suggesting to me now that although historical rejection rates, when people know what they're doing in mail-in balloting, when they know what they're doing, historical rejection rates of 1% or 2% for the liberals listening, meaning 1% or 2% out of every mail-in ballots, every 100 mail-in ballots that are submitted, in a year where people generally know what they're doing, are thrown out because people forget stuff. Don't sign,
Starting point is 00:24:59 you get my point, right? You're telling me in a year where states with very little experience with mass mail-in ballots and people, voters with even less experience who've never done it before, all mailed it in and all nailed it because the rejection rates are a fraction of what they were in the past. Does that make any sense? Again, Occam's razor. If you have a simple explanation for it, I would love to hear it. The Frank Luntz explanation, who has a smart-ass comment for everything, sounds absurd. It was a public service announcement. What? You're telling me a TV commercial led to rejection rates at historic lows? If that's the case, then let's do some, let's just check that out. But it doesn't make any sense.
Starting point is 00:26:00 Like I said, only you can prevent forfeit. Smokey the Bandit PSA? All right right if you got maybe a little bit less than it in the areas it was shown i have seen no data to indicate that at all from john solomon's piece check this out i'll be in the show notes again historically mail-in ballots are rejected at around a rate of one percent for first-time absentee voters, folks, that rate can go as high as 3%. The higher number reflecting the unfamiliarity first-time voters have with the mail-in process. I mean, again, the logic here is it's not a leap. If you're doing something for the first time, voting via mail, the error rate is going to be higher because you're doing it for the first time.
Starting point is 00:26:52 You know, I've had this conversation with friends of mine in the medical for talking about this nauseous stuff. I go, you know, one of the few episodes in nature that one trial learning works. Did you notice is food aversion, right? Where you eat a food and it gets you sick because your brain learns right away. What is it? The area, pro-streamer, whatever it is in the back. Your brain learns right away not to eat it again
Starting point is 00:27:13 or you'll die. So one trial, eat bad berry, almost die. If you survive it, second time your brain goes, oh, that tastes really gross. You learned it in one trial. That never happens anywhere else. Show me another example in nature. You hit a baseball, you don't take one swing and you're like, I'm like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb,
Starting point is 00:27:36 Honus Wagner, buddy. It doesn't happen. You're telling me the first time out of the chute, everybody figured this out and that the rejection rate, which should have been higher, roughly 3%, because there are new people and new people tend to have their ballots rejected at a 3% rate rather than a 1% rate. You're telling me the rate was actually far lower. Here's part two of John Solomon's piece. Does this make any sense? Here's part two of John Solomon's piece.
Starting point is 00:28:03 Does this make any sense? Quote, ballot rejections have thus far been lower across the United States this year than expect. Lower, not higher. With battleground states posting strikingly lower numbers relative to both the historical average and even more recent elections. Let's go through that. I'm going to read this one by one. Let's go through Georgia, folks.
Starting point is 00:28:24 In Georgia, a state where Biden has eked out a surprise lead a few in the 20,000 votes, the rejection rate in 2016 was a whopping 6.4%. However, this year, the rate of rejection, what is it, Joe? 6.1? No, it stands at 0.2. Huh? 6.1? No, it stands at 0.2. Huh? What? I see where we're going.
Starting point is 00:28:52 More than 30 times lower than the last election. Oh. Similar trends have been observed in Pennsylvania, whose rate was 0.03 this year, compared to 1% in 2016.
Starting point is 00:29:08 Oh, it gets worse. In Nevada, the rejection rate was more than halved from 1.6 in 2016 to around 0.75. One more North Carolina's rejection rate fell from 2.7 in 2016 to 0.8 this year. fell from 2.7 in 2016 to 0.8 this year. Folks, obviously, keep it simple stupid, right? Why are rejection rates lower? The simplest explanation right here is either machines were calibrated differently,
Starting point is 00:29:42 which they were apparently, to reject them at a lower rate, or the alternate scenario, which Luntz is providing, that some public service announcement led to a mass public education on how to mail in ballots, send them in right, and it resulted in these rejection rates that are lower. I'm open to it. Let me hear the evidence on either side. that are lower. I'm open to it. Let me hear the evidence on either side. But you suggesting to me that Georgia in 2016 had a rejection rate of 6.4%, over six out of a hundred mail-in ballots
Starting point is 00:30:17 were rejected. And now a mass mail-in ballot to people in Georgia who've never actually mail-in balloted before, and the rejection rate was 30 times lower despite no experience whatsoever with mail-in ballots for a lot, for a large majority of these people. Come on, man. You expect me, I mean, we're pulling a Joe Biden now. Come on, man. Come on, man. You expect me to believe this? And just take it on your word? Nah, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:30:53 I'm not going to do it. Your word means nothing to me anymore, media people. You're the same people who told me the pee-pee tape was real. You expected us to believe for four years President Trump was a russian traitor sitting in a smoke-filled room with a cigar smoking jacket on with vladimir putin plotting the destruction of the world and that ten thousand dollars in facebook ads in a county in wisconsin through the whole election but by a russian group of trolls overseas you wanted us to believe that
Starting point is 00:31:22 for four years i just presented to you hard statistical data of a statistical anomaly about rejection rates being 30 times lower despite mail and ballots being geometrically more this year and experience with mail and ballots being lower. And you expect us to discard that out of hand because why you so? Double barrel for you guys. No thanks. So let's stay focused here. So I said there were two things. Number one, these rejection rates. It doesn't make sense. It is a statistical anomaly.
Starting point is 00:31:59 Is it explainable by fraud? I don't know. Is it a fair question to ask? You're damn right it is. And we will continue to ask it. The second takeaway, these sworn affidavits about uniform ballots. Ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing in nature that's uniform. I said that to you yesterday. You don't drop an oil droplet in a thing of water
Starting point is 00:32:19 and have it uniformly disperse like you're playing a game of like Space Invaders. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Remember that? The younger kids are like, what the hell, Space Invaders? Me and Joe are like, we love that game. It was awesome, man. Pong, Space Invaders.
Starting point is 00:32:32 That's not how the oil comes down uniformly. It just randomly disperses because nature loves disorder. So if people are swearing in affidavits that a bunch of pristine ballots, seemingly not handled by people, people, I thought people voted. So people would have to handle their votes if they, I'm just checking. Seemingly pristine ballots, not handled, all filled out the exact same way. Just like oil droplets coming down like space invaders. You're suggesting to me that that's no big deal either.
Starting point is 00:33:01 We should just throw that out too. Ah, no thanks. So here's another piece by John Solomon. I'll be in the show notes today. I say just the news, it's John Solomon's website, but check it out about these uniform ballots because it's interesting the allegations being leveled there. Again, it'll be up in the show notes today. Folks, there are numerous sworn affidavits by people suggesting they witnessed ballots being delivered in pristine condition. Pristine condition uniformly filled out. Georgia recount witnesses swear to have seen votes for Trump counted for Biden.
Starting point is 00:33:38 Trump campaign attorneys are attempting to block the certification of the Georgia recount. Kind of interesting allegations, no? More inside the piece. Talking about this uniformity. Again, that exists nowhere in nature, nowhere, but seemingly exists in the Georgia vote count, where these pristine ballots all were seemingly filled out at the same way. Ladies and gentlemen, it makes absolutely no sense.
Starting point is 00:34:06 Here's a quote from the piece. Nine individual sites in the affidavits swore to have seen suspicious mail-in ballots almost uniformly cast for Joe Biden. The ballots were in pristine condition, had no creases on them. How is that, folks? How is that? How is that, folks? How is that? According to the sworn affidavits, which seem to appear unusual considering mail-in ballots must be folded to fit in the envelope in which to your mail. We got our Hunter Biden receipt.
Starting point is 00:34:37 We use this ballot. Ladies and gentlemen, you got to fold these things. Liberals, this is the demonstration. We're going to paint a pretty little tree, Bob Ruther're gonna this is where i have to show you how it's done lucy's over there like what are you doing lucy the dog's looking at me like i'm crazy fold one more time it's your own little happy ballot. And what is that? Yeah. Put it in a little stream right here.
Starting point is 00:35:10 I love that show. I loved Bob Ross. I did too. I've seen every one of them. But wasn't he great? A PBSer. Folks, it leaves a crease. You see that? It's a crease.
Starting point is 00:35:21 You see a bunch of ballots without creases, it means they weren't folded, which means they didn't go in envelopes which means they weren't mailed in joe put on your shock face everybody said huh right i know i know it's stunning envelopes you have to stuff them in the envelopes meaning meaning you have to fold them. Oh, man. Maybe we should look into that. Move on. Move on. I'm not moving on.
Starting point is 00:35:49 I'm not interested in moving on. Is there an Occam's razor explanation that's simple? Were they collected by some election official who was authorized to collect them, who signed for them? Show us. Show us the data. We'll cover it on the show. Sign for them. Show us.
Starting point is 00:36:02 Show us the data. We'll cover it on the show. The last thing I want to tell you is that we lost this election due to fraud. If we lost fair and square, we lost. We will dust off and live to fight another day. I'm not willing to give up anything at all. And I never will. It's our country.
Starting point is 00:36:26 And damn it, it's worth fighting for. I'm going to dance every day with you, no doubt about it. Nothing would make me happier than to discover there was an innocent explanation. I don't want to think I live in a country where mail fraud is rampant. I don't want that. Mail-in voter fraud is any kind of voter fraud. Show us. voter fraud. Show us. Show us there's an explanation for this. Please, if there is a simple one, I would love to see it. All right, I want to move on. I got some video coming up, a little bit of kind of relief from the very serious nature of the show today, forgive me. But Jesse Waters had a great piece on the five-ish I want to get to. And I want to get to,
Starting point is 00:37:08 I can't even describe this. Right, Paul? It defies explanation. The song. Joe, you've seen it already. You have to just watch this. You're not going to want to miss this video. You know what I'm talking about, right?
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Starting point is 00:39:09 Okay. Back to the show. So, uh, Jesse did a great segment yesterday on the five, Jesse waters, a good man. And, um, you know, again, fighting back against these, we're not going to succumb to your liberal pressure to genuflect before your golden calf narratives. It's time to move on folks. It's time to move on, folks. It's time to move on. Their new narrative, by the way, is there may be fraud, but it's not enough to overturn the election. All right, well, I want to know about the fraud then. And we will keep going until we discover it, because even if that narrative is true, because we have an election coming up January 5th for two senators in Georgia, that's important. So here's Jesse on The Five yesterday saying, hey, time out there, ladies and gents. We had to tolerate your BS, your Bolton for years about your stupid, dopey conspiracy
Starting point is 00:39:53 theories. Let's take some time and let this stuff get litigated through court. Just as I said when I opened up the show, let Sidney Powell make her case when she has the time and when she's ready to do it in the right way. On the timeline, we need to. Check this out. Remember, during this whole Russia collusion thing, they had zero eyewitness testimony to say that I saw the Trump campaign collude with Russia. Rudy Giuliani says he has hundreds of sworn affidavits that say they witnessed corruption. So you got to let this play out.
Starting point is 00:40:26 What I saw the case to be is this. They're saying, do not certify the fraudulent votes until we present our case in court and then let a judge rule on that. Perfectly normal. The case consists of two pillars. One, these sworn affidavits signed under the penalty of perjury that say they witnessed fraud. And two, circumstantial evidence and whistleblowers. Remember, we used to like whistleblowers and whistleblowers saying that some of the software was manipulated to add Biden votes. I'll take Jesse's statement there and his word.
Starting point is 00:40:59 Over the word of all of these Ph.D.,, liberal dopey, blue checkmark talking heads. Who just lie to you every day and told you the pee pee hoax was real. Because Jesse's right. We'll make our case when we're darn ready to make our case on the timeline prescribed and at the deadlines we need to. If there is a case, we'll see it. If there's not a case, we will see it. But you will hear us out. and we will not back down. All right.
Starting point is 00:41:29 Now, this is called the, I have this down as the LOL block. I don't even know how else to describe it because it's, I don't know who's worse here. The screaming lunatic banshees in the media. Paula didn't know what, she didn't even know what I was giving her. I gave her that. I don't even know if Joe did either. I sent this video clip over. So what's worse? Screaming media banshees or we're together for our future.
Starting point is 00:41:54 You'll see what I mean in a minute. I don't know who's worse, AOC or the media banshees. This is hilarious. First, let's go to the media banshee. So here's what happened yesterday. Vice President Pence and the task force went out and gave a presser in the Brady press Room at the White House announcing some just amazing news that they have a vaccine. It's apparently ready to rock and roll. Pfizer's looking for clearance today. Ladies and gentlemen, literally, not figuratively, by December, if you choose to get a vaccine, it may be available for frontline health workers, then hopefully teachers, military, police officers, and end up for the rest of us. They need them first. No doubt about that.
Starting point is 00:42:28 That's great news, right? Not for the media, because the media is obsessed with already declaring Joe Biden the de facto president and not letting any of these fraud allegations hash themselves out. The media has already decided you should all shut up. And despite it being a press conference about the vaccine and the good news, the media has decided it'd be a good idea to scream, I'm not kidding, like a bunch of pouting five-year-old kids whose ice pops are being healthy. You want an ice pop? Just kidding. You want an ice pop? Just kidding. Listen to these total losers pout like a bunch of zeros, screaming and yelling like the dip wads they are. Check this out. Thank you. You're all part of not recognizing democracy. You're all undermining the Democratic election.
Starting point is 00:43:26 Every one of you. Why is this? And you won't work with the transaction. Activist, man. Again, do you think I came out? You know, we always have to go. You'll go to. We remember the hangover, Joe.
Starting point is 00:43:43 Yeah. The cousin, the weird cousin kid when he's trying to, when he's trying to, we're supposed to take these buffoons seriously. Jonathan Carl, whoever it is in the front row, rip it off his, righteous indignation. You're undermining, we're undermining democracy. How? How exactly? Just to be clear, Joe, we're undermining democracy by asking for very simple explanations towards potential voter fraud, potential for deceit.
Starting point is 00:44:09 If it's fraud, that's undermining democracy because you buffoons won't ask the question. Now, you may be saying, yeah, Dan, that is tragically hilarious. Tragically, because we can't believe these utter buffoons are actually considered a source of information. I mean, some people actually listen to these idiots is what I'm getting at. This may take the cake. This reminds me, by the way, remember Josie and the Pussycats?
Starting point is 00:44:33 Josie and the Pussycats. Remember that? I've been singing way too much on today. It's been a rough one, I got to say. I'm feeling okay today. So I, you know me, whenever I get in a good mood, it goes. But AOC yesterday is trying,
Starting point is 00:44:46 what she's trying to do is she's trying to gather a group of Green New Deal activists. Not trying, she did. But what they're trying to do is they're trying to pressure who they perceive to be the next president, Joe Biden, if this all fashes out. They're trying to pressure him to move farther left and accept the Green New Deal. So AOC thought it would be a good idea to hold a press conference with these Green New Deal proponents. So they get up to the mic. This is not a joke. They start talking about the Green New Deal and they just randomly break out into song. Ladies and gentlemen, if there is a cringe scale of one to 10, one to 10, like an attend being you're having a volcanic gastrointestinal episode at a party and someone opens the door and everybody sees you. If that's a 10 on the cringe scale,
Starting point is 00:45:34 this is like a 9.7. Watch what happens at this. Watch if you're watching on rumble, rumble.com slash Bongino watch AOC in the background. She's like, what do I do? Do I say, so she starts clap. It's the most uncomfortable do I do? So she starts to clap. It's the most uncomfortable thing I've ever seen. Check this out. Tell me later who's worse, screaming media banshees or Josie and the Pussycats. Josie, check this out. So we're about to sing a song called We Are Standing For Our Futures. If you know the song, sing along. If you don't know it, listen and then sing it when you figure it out. All right. We are standing for our futures. We
Starting point is 00:46:06 are healing what is wrong. We are standing for our futures and together we are strong. We are standing for our futures. We are healing what is wrong. We are standing for our futures and together we are strong. Everyone. We are standing for our futures. We are healing what is wrong. We are standing for our futures and together we are strong. Together. Paula and I, Paula gets to watch everything. We're picking out who's more uncomfortable here.
Starting point is 00:46:42 So AOC tries to get into a little rhythm, do a little hip shake, whatever she's doing. Next to AOC is, I think that's more uncomfortable here. So AOC tries to get into a little rhythm, do a little hip shake, whatever she's doing. Next to AOC is, I think that's Ed Markey. Ed Markey doesn't know what to do. The guy's got the rhythm of a fire hydrant. He's not even like clapping on cue. They're like, we're together for our future.
Starting point is 00:46:58 And Ed Markey's like, when everyone else claps, Ed's like, he can't get the rhythm down because Ed's got the rhythm of a stop sign. And then there's another dude. Now, I don't know who that guy is. There's another dude to the right of Marky who doesn't even know how to clap. Watch that again. It's the greatest. The guy next to him on the right is like, he doesn't know if he's golf clapping or is it like, you know, like in church, someone sings a song, they do amazing grace where you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then a golf
Starting point is 00:47:23 clap, you're like, yeah, yeah, really? He doesn't know what to do he's like you know the song good you see look wait watch yeah yeah watch again rex ed markey right here this guy's hilarious oh i don't know who they yeah you see him he doesn't know what to do look at him look at him he doesn't know what to do he's like this wait come on this is great it looks like he's like rolling play-doh he's like like he's playing with his kids or something with the Play-Doh thing. Look, we're going to make spaghetti with the Play-Doh. He doesn't know what to do.
Starting point is 00:47:52 And then there's one more. Can you put that little thing? Is this a slow roll again? There's a, this is a security person to the right. You can see, I can see the pin. It must be Capitol Hill police.
Starting point is 00:48:01 It's a woman right next to the woman in pink. She's just sitting there. I listen, I know the Capitol Hill, but they're really good. I'm pretty sure she's Capitol Hill police. It's a woman right next to the woman in pink. She's just sitting there. Listen, I know the Capitol Hill, but they're really good. I'm pretty sure she's Capitol Hill police. She is sitting here. Look, she's got a mask on. I can tell you right now, she's thinking in her head, what the hell am I doing here right now with these buffoons?
Starting point is 00:48:17 Look at her. Look, you see her? The poor woman. She's like, what? She's sitting there, hands out here like this. Like, oh my gosh, do I clap too? What the heck am I stuck here with these buffoons? That's the greatest video ever.
Starting point is 00:48:27 All right. Quick vote in the room. Personally, I think the media banshees are worse. I'm going to go with number one. Joe, media banshees worse or Josie and the Pussycats? Josie and the Pussycats for me, dude. That was- I can read your freaking mind.
Starting point is 00:48:41 I knew it. Paula, what do you think? You think the media banshees? Or Josie and the Pussycats? Paula's going Josie and the Pussycats too. I'm overruled. Two out of three. As Meatloaf said, two out of three ain't bad.
Starting point is 00:48:54 So you guys win. Yeah, hilarious. Watch the video, rumble.com slash Bongino. Check it out. You'll see what I'm saying. There's all the characters in the back. AOC's the only one who kind of gets into it. The rest of them are like, what am I doing here? I didn't know
Starting point is 00:49:06 we were going to be breaking out of the song here. All right. I got to get back to some serious stuff. Let me get to my last sponsor. And then finally, the famous or the infamous now Guardian segment my wife has put together and we've put off now five days in a row, but it's worth your time. Here, I'll give you a little hint when we come back on the other side of this. of your time. Here, I'll give you a little hint when we come back on the other side of this. They're already totally misreading the 2020 election, the libs. I'm going to tell you why and what the problem is. This is an important segment. Don't miss it. Our final sponsor, our friends who I have really come to rely on pretty much every day now at Teeter Inversion Tables. Teeter Inversion Tables use gravity in your own body weight to decompress your spine
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Starting point is 00:51:29 why, because it says, before we get to it, it says two seemingly contradictory things. He nails it, the author of this piece, nails it in the opening about why Trump is such a threat to the Democrats. Hold that in your head, okay? So his premise is assertions about why Trump is such a threat, even though they think he lost, why he's such a threat to them. They nail. But then in the second part, he totally misreads what actually happened in the election, which is weird because it's, again, two seemingly contradictory thoughts. Let's go to the piece first. It's an important one. It's worth your time. Again, two seemingly contradictory thoughts. Let's go to the piece first.
Starting point is 00:52:03 It's an important one. It's worth your time. Joe Biden's coalition is whiter, wealthier, and will not stick around. Biden's win dependent on suburbanites tired of Trump, who voted Republican down ballot and will certainly vote Republican in future elections. That's his assertion, whether you agree with that or not. So he throws it, but he's not incorrect that Joe Biden's coalition was whiter and wealthier. That's not wrong. The data backs that up and data matters.
Starting point is 00:52:29 We do facts here. His first takeaway, he nails it. Why Trump is an existential threat at this point to the National Democrat Party if he stays on the political scene, if it doesn't work out his way. Check this out. This first takeaway is very, very important, ladies and gentlemen. Don't forget this. Most concerningly, it's a quote, Democrats hemorrhaged votes amongst non-white working class voters. Exit polls show Trump winning more non-white voters than any Republican in a generation.
Starting point is 00:53:02 This was most apparent with Cuban-American voters in Miami-Dade, who of course have their own idiosyncratic politics. But losses among Latino voters could also be seen, listen to this, in huge margins in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most impoverished regions in the country. In Osceola County, Florida, that's true, and up and down the map from El Paso,
Starting point is 00:53:23 from El Centro, California, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. Early returns also show consistent gains for Republicans amongst black voters across the board. Even in the crucial states Biden was able to flip, Trump reduced Democratic margins in Detroit, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. These results should be setting off alarm bells among Democrats.
Starting point is 00:53:45 You're damn right. Nails it, which is weird because what I'm going to get to next, he completely blows it. The author of this piece, did he or she? I'm sorry, I didn't even look at that. Who wrote it? Folks, if President Trump, follow me here, was the spark that lit the fuse in the black and Hispanic community
Starting point is 00:54:08 for people to find the Republican Party for the first time, which all the data seems to indicate historic turnout amongst Latino voters for President Trump, historic turnout amongst black voters for President Trump. Think about it. How many, follow me here, think about how many of these Black and Hispanic voters voted GOP for the first time. How many are going to find themselves on GOP email lists now? Find themselves liking GOP parlor accounts, Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts? How many of them are now going to go to a GOP meeting for the first time and feel welcome think about that then talk to their kids and then start to talk to others and evangelize the cause folks it's not about one election it's about generational mind changing it's about people
Starting point is 00:55:00 for the first time discovering that the party of values, big R, God-given rights, economic freedom, life in the womb, from conception to natural death, the right to self-protection, the right to school choice. It's about black and Hispanic voters, some for the very first time, finding that those are their values too, and that they've been misled by the media about what the Republican Party is for a very long time. May I say that I think these voters aren't going anywhere. I think these new black and Hispanic voters are going to evangelize to their kids and their friends the cause of liberty and are going to cause a downward spiral for the Democrat Party. They're going to have a really tough
Starting point is 00:55:38 time recovering from if we can keep it up and not alienate people. He nailed it there. keep it up and not alienate people. He nailed it there. And don't ever forget, Trump did that. Not Mitt Romney, not John McCain, and not George W. Bush. It was Trump who brought in those Hispanic and black voters. Now you may say, how could a writer who got it so right get it so wrong next? Well, he did. Screwed it up next. This is the next part of the article where it totally blows it. Now, in this part of the article, the writer here, Ben Davis, is trying to say, no, no, no, no. And by the way, the down ballot losses where the Republican Congress congressional representatives and senators did great.
Starting point is 00:56:18 That's not an indictment of socialism. Wrong quote. He says where the agenda was on the ballot, it was triumphant. Even as moderation obsessed, Democrats lost up and down the ballot. In Florida, where the Dems distanced themselves from a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage, the result was a huge win for the $15 an hour minimum wage and a bloodbath for Democratic candidates. For many voters, the Democratic Party isn't associated with raising the minimum wage and with the Democrats' messaging strategy, why should it be? What is he saying here?
Starting point is 00:56:48 Let me translate that for you because I've seen this talking point bandied about in the media and you need to just thoroughly discard it. Florida, unfortunately, did pass a $15 an hour minimum wage on a constitutional question that was put on the ballot. You have to get 60% of the vote. How it passed, I have no idea because the amount of economic research on the destructive effects of wage floors is overwhelming. But the left, which got crushed down ballot, is saying, no, no, because minimum wage law, the law passed in Florida with 60% of all socialism and the leftist agenda won across the country. Let me first explain what happened with minimum wage and what typically happens with minimum wage. Ladies and gentlemen, the minimum wage is difficult to explain. It just is. It's the whole broken windows. When you break a window, you know the broken windows economic theory? When you break a window and you have people who don't know anything
Starting point is 00:57:43 about economics say, oh, that's great because it gives business to the glassmaker who goes and then rebuilds your window. But it doesn't because you now have the same window you had before with less money because you gave it to the glassmaker. That's not a net benefit. This is that kind of thinking. Well, if we're paying people more, they have more money to spend. No, no, they don't have more money to spend because the people paying you have less money to spend because they paid you more.
Starting point is 00:58:10 Make sense, Joe? It's not hard, right? Just checking. Yeah, I'm all right. Now, what I'm trying to get to is it's difficult to explain to people the unseen. All they see because the media machine wants them to believe, is, well, we're going to pay people $15 an hour. People don't associate that with a liberal idea.
Starting point is 00:58:30 They associate it with work, and they voted for it. They don't understand that it's going to actually cost people jobs and cost people money. The economic research on it is irrefutable. It's not even arguable. Minimum wage costs jobs.
Starting point is 00:58:42 It just does. And it costs low-income workers the worst. But it's not that it passed an indictment of conservatism, people associated with work and getting paid, where actual liberal policies were on the ballot. Because remember the guy's assertion, so I don't lose you. No, no, liberalism didn't lose, even though they lost all the way down the ballot. Liberalism won because minimum wage. I've seen this over and over. When actual liberal policies were on the ballot,
Starting point is 00:59:10 in liberal states, they got wrecked. R-E-K-T, wrecked. Wait, I thought liberalism didn't lose. Minimum wage. Let's look at this piece in the Wall Street Journal. California had a whole boatload of stuff on their agenda ballot initiatives on the agenda that got absolutely crushed identity politics tax hikes ab5 here this is from a while ago, my Mike Gonzalez, Wall Street Journal. Tuesday's big loser, identity politics.
Starting point is 00:59:47 Affirmative action, right? Racial preferences, that's a liberal thing, right? Conservatives have a very simple policy on that. Judge people by their character, not the color of their skin. Not complicated, right? Not liberals. They want people judged by where they're from, color of their skin, everything but their character.
Starting point is 01:00:01 Well, that was on the ballot, racial preferences in California, which are inherently racist because you're judging people and preferring them by their race. I don't have to do this slow, folks. I'm sorry. There are liberals listening. It's inherently racist. That was on the ballot. It failed miserably in California. I thought liberalism didn't lose. Minimum wage. There were also tax hikes on the ballot. One in Illinois, as a matter of fact. Illinois, you know that bastion of right-wing conservatism, Illinois. That was on the ballot too.
Starting point is 01:00:39 Wall Street Journal, Illinois tax repudiation. Voters may force needed reform by rejecting Governor Pritzker's tax hike, which was on the ballot. And they did it roundly in illinois so ladies and gentlemen again we do data research facts and common sense here yes trump is an existential threat existential threat to the democrat party he's correct but number two that liberalism didn't get smoked up and down the ballot. You're insane. Minimum wage is not associated with liberalism. It's associated with work. And it only won because it's hard to explain the unseen. That's why wherever liberal policies in liberal states were on the ballot, liberal policies like tax hikes and racial preferences, they got crushed in liberal states along with the congressional representatives on the liberal side that got wiped out because the Republicans picked up 10 seats. racial preferences, they got crushed in liberal states, along with the congressional representatives
Starting point is 01:01:25 on the liberal side that got wiped out because the Republicans picked up 10 seats. So please don't tell me that, don't tell me liberalism didn't get smoked to try and save your narrative. All right, folks, I've got a National Review article I'd like you to read. It's at the end of the show notes today. It's a great article. It's a little wonky, but it debunks tax and spending myths. I want to get to that. I was going to get to it today, but I don't have enough time. I'll get to it next week sometime. It's a really good stuff in there that'll give us a lot of good ammo going forward to make these intellectual arguments, facts and stuff that matter, stuff liberals have a tough time with. Thanks again for tuning in. It's been a great week. Thank you all for hanging
Starting point is 01:01:59 in there with me this week. It's been a real challenge, but it's a pleasure and an honor to speak to you every day. Our audience has grown substantially, and that's due to you. We really appreciate it. We were number 11 this month on Triton and all of the country for podcasts. Thanks to you. So please subscribe on Rumble, rumble.com slash Bongino. It's free. That's the video version of our show, all free to you. And please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, SoundCloud, iHeart, wherever you show, Spotify, wherever you go, Stitcher. The subscriptions really matter. We appreciate it.
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