The Dan Bongino Show - The Mueller Report Cheat Sheet # 960 (Ep 960)

Episode Date: April 17, 2019

In this episode I address the astonishing hypocrisy of Bernie Sanders and his unworkable ideas. I also address the pending release of the Mueller report and what to look for in the report.    News Picks: Liberals are lying about the Trump tax cuts and many Americans are buying the lies.   Here are the numbers on who is really paying taxes in America.    The Mueller report will be used as ammunition by anti-Trump conspiracy theorists.   Paul Sperry sums up the Mueller strategy.   This Andy McCarthy piece is so good President Trump tweeted about it.   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the damn bongino show producer joe how are you today happy wednesday morning daniel good to be here brother no it's not happening no i'm tired it's not happy i'm not i'm tired i'm telling these cases wearing me out. Is it? This is not happening. It is. It's mentally draining to me. I got to tell you, folks, I'm getting tired of this back and forth with this nonsense with these imbeciles on social media, email, and elsewhere. These people don't understand the grave situation we're in with everything that's going on right now.

I mean, we are facing probably one of the biggest constitutional crises in our in our republic in modern times. And there are people in the media like this lunatic jerk. I don't even know. I'm trying to keep this somewhat family friendly. Joe Scarborough, this this lunatic on MSNBC comes out yesterday and says, hey, man, all this spying was done by the book. Yeah, yeah, it was done by the book, the Communist Manifesto. That's the book you're referring to, you dope. I mean, I can't believe how many people are skewering their reputations, are taking like a shish kebab on open charcoal flames, skewering their reputations for the rest of their lives to go on the record on their own television shows and defend the police state when

they know all of this is going to come out in the long run it is just stunning it is stunning how many people who want you to take them seriously rachel maddow chuck scarborough or joe scarborough chuck scarborough was a guy up in new york uh joe joe scarborough that, Brian Stelter, Costanza at CNN, all these lunatic conspiracy theorists who are, I mean, burning their reputations in an open garbage can because they just can't get

past the fact that Orange Man bad. We don't like Trump. It is disgusting. Oh, sorry folks. I don't really open the show like that. But I'm really, I'm not lying to you. This show is a raw emotional show. There's no teleprompter.

There's no scripts. And you get what I got every day. And today you got a little bit of anger. It's funny. I was just reading on Facebook. Some lady said, can you talk a little lower on your show? No, not today. Sorry.

You may want to fast forward to tomorrow's show. We're waiting for the Mueller report to come out tomorrow. That's going to be huge. That's going to be a big show. Here's what I got for you today. Rant over. I'm going to prep you for what to see in this Mueller report and what to look for. There's a scam he's pulling. I'm going to expose the scam for you. Don't worry. I also want to get to some tax stuff and some Bernie stuff to show you what hypocrites these Democrats are and how little they know in this black hole of knowledge they live in. All right. Today's show brought to you by our buddies at GenuCell. Listen, we love GenuCell in this house.

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happened ladies and gentlemen if you're a regular listener to the show and i cover this this is disgraceful stain on American history probe of a president for a crime that never happened. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're a regular listener to the show and I cover this, this is where I'm going in book two. My second book on this, Exonerated, The Failed Takedown of Donald Trump by the Swan. Please pick it up. You've been really helpful in helping us get an idea what the pre-orders are going to look like.

The whole purpose of the Mueller probe, ladies and gentlemen, is for Mueller to keep the attention on Donald Trump. And this is, I believe, what his report is going to say. Keep the heat on Donald Trump. Keep the heat away from Hillary Clinton, the DOJ and others. And the purpose of the Mueller probe

was to keep it open as long as possible to keep said heat on Donald Trump. Now, to keep the heat on Trump and to rescue the reputation of the Department of Justice and FBI, we track. And Joe, please tell me as the audience, this makes sense because what I'm going, where I'm going to go with this, preparing you for this drop tomorrow. You will be more prepared than anyone when you're done with this show. Will not make sense if you don't understand that. I will. The Mueller probe has to rescue the reputation of the doj and keep the heat on donald trump

how will they do that the reputation of the department of justice and fbi they won all in on one particular thing to save themselves what was it the dossier the juicy see you put me in a better mood I was really blanked off when you get it when I got on the air Joe Scarborough yeah Joe okay are you smoking bongs in your office Joe

seriously you and Mika hitting the skunk weed in the office the chocolate tie what are you doing back there folks Seriously, you and Mika hitting the skunk weed in the office, the chocolate tie. What are you doing back there? Chocolate tie. Folks, I think that was when I was a kid. My neighborhood, I did not do drugs.

So listen, kids, if you're listening, don't do them. I didn't do them. But a lot of people around me did in New York City. I remember all kinds of funny names. Yeah. I'm sure in the music field you were in, Joe. You have no experience with this at all. That's why I was laughing, dude. Yeah. I can only imagine what Joe's story is.

We may have to do a NC-17 show for that. So this guy, he was a music guy. That's why he looks like LA in the 80s. Understand. That's right. The FBI based its entire case on the dossier. That was plan B, okay?

Plan B for them, not the FBI, but the Obama administration in general, the larger picture plan A, was to spy on political opponents, Mike Flynn and others, using human assets, Stefan Halper and others, unmasking, basically wiretapping people, and misuse of the NSA database. That was their original plan. When that broke down, Devin Nunes talks about, well, I talk about plan B, but he calls it the legal spying. So the FBI needed now a legal reason when a lot of that broke down

because people started to say, hey, what's going on over here with this NSA database? I think they were afraid of whistleblowers. They wanted to put a legal face on the spying. So they go to the FISA court. They go to the FISA court with this Russian collusion fairy tale that comes from one spot. Sorry for rehashing this, but it's important. And one spot

only. Joe Biden math, one spot only. One spot only. It comes from the dossier. I'm putting up four fingers for you audio listeners. So for Bob Mueller to rescue the reputation of the FBI that sunk their legal FISA court spying sunk their reputation into the dossier Mueller has to do what he has to put some teeth on the dossier

and make it appear semi-legitimate so that later on his buddies and pals in the FBI, Comey, Baker, remember Mueller's a career insider, will look like, well, this was just an honest mistake. We got a warrant to spy. It was a credible source in Christopher Steele. And the information just turned out to be bad in the end. But look, in the end, we eventually got some really bad guys in jail. I wrote it down like this.

The FISA is plan B. The dossier is the FISA. Mueller follows the dossier as a roadmap. That's the whole point of book two, how Mueller in their final chapters, how Mueller follows the dossier like a roadmap to rescue his buddy Comey and the FBI to make it appear that the dossier had some meat on the bone. Okay.

Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, you're cool. I'm Budsman Joe. Thank you. This isn't too hard. You're good. All right. I just, I haven't got any emails where people are confused in a long time, so that's why I rely on, and I know some of you and I understand you say, well, will you

repeat yourself? Well, I do. I get it. And I understand that ladies and gentlemen, but I do it. So when you leave this show, there's no doubt. So I believe the Mueller report, which is going to drop tomorrow, manana is going to cover two bases. Base number one is what I just described.

It is going to be a report that tries number one is what I just described. It is going to be a report that tries to legitimize a dossier that is illegitimate. It is going to do that by making the people in the dossier and the spying component seem legitimate because the people they were spying on were really bad guys. Okay. Secondly, the new standard the Democrats have put out for information that will be in this Mueller report, I have no doubt, is, well, it's going to contain a lot of negative information about Trump and we should use that. Negative information.

Wow, that's hysterical, Joe. Negative information is the new standard. Are we serious? Negative information. So just to be clear, there's no probable cause to charge him with a crime, the Trump team, and Trump himself for any collusion, right? How do we know that? Because no one was charged with a crime for collusion. Nobody.

Not Papadopoulos, not Flynn, not Cohen. No one was charged with conspiracy to collude with the Russians on behalf of the Trump team to overthrow the results of the election or toss them into chaos. Nobody was charged with that. So there was no evidence of a crime. So the Democrats who can't let that go will say, well, if there's enough negative information, we Nobody was charged with that. So there was no evidence of a crime. So the Democrats who can't let that go will say, well, if there's enough negative information, we're going to use that. I find this hysterical.

Why, Joe? Because Jim Comey gave a July 5th, 2016 speech about Hillary Clinton and her email scandal that was about 20 straight minutes, Joe, of negative information about what Hillary did, how they used horrible judgment, how they set up a private server. In the original speech, they talked about her emailing Barack Obama from foreign soil. That was wiped out later.

This is all, Joe, negative information. Yes, sir. But notice how when it's negative information on Hillary and Democrat cronies, we're supposed to forget all of that. Don't you worry. That's not the, these are not the droids you're looking for. This is not the negative information you're looking for.

But when it's negative information on Trump, then yes, that negative information is gospel, should be used for impeachment, character assassination, should be used for repeated political attacks. The Mueller report will serve up, I'm sure, a bevy of negative information not related to any crime whatsoever. If I investigated Joee paula or anybody else with the assets applied to the muller probe i assure you i'd find negative information too definitely the question is was a crime committed and the answer is no

so when your friends bring up the negative information standard you should ask them well there's the negative information about hillary count what about the negative information standard you should ask him well there's the negative information about hillary count what about the negative information about the trump tower meeting where the people that showed up who had connections to hillary clinton and people were that's negative information does that matter no no not that negative information no what about the ukrainian lawmaker serhaila shenko who nelly or admits they were getting information from fusion gps while they were under contract with Hillary. In other words, the textbook definition of foreign collusion. What about that then, negative information? No, no, that negative information doesn't

matter either. This is your answer. I'm setting you up. Ground ball. Ground ball. Bunt. Here you go. Bunt. You want to keep the bat, descend to the bat high when you're bunting. It's important. If you dip it low, you'll pop it up. I love baseball. It's my favorite sport. Keep that, remember, catch the ball with the bat high when you're bunting. It's important. If you dip it low, you'll pop it up. I love baseball.

It's my favorite sport. Keep that. Remember, catch the ball with the bat. There you go. This is a bunt. Remember my big fat Greek wedding? It's a bunt cake. A bunt?

A bunt? A bunt? Remember that? A bunt? Remember they bring the bunt cake? I love that scene. A bunt. What's a bunt?

This is a bunt. When they tell you, oh, it's full of negative information okay great so negative information is all the new standard for destroying the character people well let's go down the list here hillary's connections to the people in trump the trump tower me does that matter no no not that the ukrainians what about that what about the hillary email scale the stuff that came out with that that scandal that was obama what about benghazi Fast and Furious, that was all negative

information. No, no, no, none of that matters. Alright, moving on. That's the negative information I'm telling you, you heard it here first. You're going to hear it and you're going to laugh now. I had a bunch of negative information in there. The second point on this Mueller report

is going to be to character assassinate people involved in the largest components of this scandal to rescue the dossier and the reputation of the FBI. Let's go to this Paul Sperry piece first in real clear investigations. Let me see. See, we're working on a trick here, my wife and I. Nice! My wife and I were engaged in verbal judo before this. Paula, I love her to death, but she's mad at me right now. Paula, how married are you and me at a scale of 1 to 10?

She's a 15. I'm not kidding, by the way. This is a real show. This is a real husband-wife duo. She's very upset at me. But we're working on a sign because sometimes when we do this stuff, I don't give the proper cues. So this is my sign.

Folks, if you're missing this on audio, youtube.com slash Bungie. One more time for the sign. Swing. So we did the sign and it was right up there. Do you like the sign?

Yeah. This is not a comedy show today. I'm sorry. I'm just really fired up about all this crap going. I mean it. I'm really upset and I'm trying to put on a good show for you through my rage it's that's just burning in me right now over the stupidity of me yeah now that you know thank you you like that so real clear investigations paul sperry a terrific researcher i highly recommend

you follow him on twitter he He has this piece up. The GOP fears Mueller's collusion bias lives on in a final report. I've told you from the start, the whole purpose of the Mueller investigation is to cover up all this nonsense, right? So Sperry writes in the piece that they're afraid that it's going to be tainted. And it's going to be tainted in such a way to make this collusion story appear real. Why, Joe? Because remember, the FISA is plan B. The dossier

is the FISA. If Mueller can make collusion at least appear real in his report, it'll make the dossier seem somewhat credible and save the reputation of the FBI. Okay. Sperry writes in the piece.

First snippet. There you go. Now everyone on YouTube is going to wait for the sign, okay? Senior Republicans on committees on Capitol Hill have reviewed some of the same evidence Mueller's investigators have examined, complained that the special counsel's team of mostly Democrat prosecutors

have shaded evidence in charging documents filed against a number of Trump associates for process crimes unrelated to collusion, mostly lying to investigators to suggest a broad conspiracy. They say that the special counsel and prosecutors misled the court, and there we go, and the media,

by, among other things, editing the contents of emails. Listen to this. This gets great to cast a sinister shadow on otherwise innocuous communications among Trump advisers. And by omitting exculpatory information. Wow. That was a really long way of saying the Mueller team are a bunch of hacks that are fabricating a story out of thin air about Russian collusion, selectively using emails. And when the emails say the opposite of what they want you to believe, that Trump colluded with the Russians, what do they do?

They leave those emails out. Exhibit one. Here we go. George, Papa D. Papa Dizzle, Papa D is the key. I did the sign. I'm waiting.

The sign, we got to get the sign. They cite, here we go, about Papadopoulos. In the charging documents against Papadopoulos, quoting Paul Sperry's piece, this is fascinating. They cite charging documents filed against Trump advisors, George Papadopoulos, Michael Cohen, and Lieutenant General Flynn as examples. The indictments that were made by the Mueller team are very questionable. And there's pieces of them that read like Russian spy novels, said Republican Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intel Committee.

on the House Intel Committee. This was done on purpose, he added, to create a narrative to make the American people think, as they were indicting these people, that this had to do with collusion with the Trump campaign and Russia. What is Nunes referring to? At one point, in the charging documents, there's a footnote that cites an email

mentioning Papadopoulos and mentioning low-level campaign surrogates going to Russia. Russia! As Tucker Carlson goes, Russia! Joe, they got him. They got him.

Bingo. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Ew! In the charging document for Papadopoulos. To be clear, there's a footnote in there about low-level campaign surrogates. In other words, Papadopoulos going to Russia.

That's it, Joe. What else? We got it. Collusion. It's done. There we go. Hook, line, and secrets. Get a fishing pole in here. We got them. Get them in. All right. What's the problem with that? Well, what's left out

of the charging document? An email from the Trump campaign saying we won't be doing these meetings, forbidding them from going to russia dude dude dude this is what i'm talking about let me hat tip my buddy 279 too, because he brings this up all the time. Ladies and gentlemen, evidence does not mean a crime was committed. Okay?

Right. Can we be clear on this? That's why it's called evidence and not proof. Joe, simple question. I'm going to go back to why this matters with Papadopoulos and how disingenuous this Mueller scam is. Okay. If a bank is robbed in your neighborhood, I know where Joe lives, and Joe is near that bank at the time it is robbed, would that be considered evidence that you could have robbed the bank?

It could be, yes. Yes, it could be. Certainly. Yes, correct. Now, is that proof beyond a reasonable doubt or evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Joe robbed? No, there are a lot of reasonable doubts. Right. Joe could have been going to the supermarket.

Joe could have just been driving by while the bank was robbed. If we find out later that Joe, in fact, has receipts that he was in the TJ Maxx down the block at that time. It was just passing by and is on video camera, time stamped in the TJ Maxx while the bank is being robbed. There is evidence Joe was there at the scene of the bank robbery and evidence suggesting Joe didn't rob the bank. Thank you. Now, do you think you poor joe do you understand now why negative information negative there's negative information about trump is not a standard negative information meaning what that george papadopoulos is in some email chain about low-level campaign surrogates going to russia wow that sounds pretty negative if you're trying

to prove Russian collusion. Until you read the email with the Trump campaign telling them, we're not going to Russia, and you're not either. We will not be doing these meetings. That's anti-evidence. Do you understand now why the

Republicans are worried? Folks, to be crystal clear, nobody rational in D.C. on the Republican side, or even a rational Democrat if there is one left anymore, is worried about Trump collusion. There's no collusion. It's dead. Forget it. It's not going to happen. Don't worry about that. That is not going to be in there. it's not going to happen. Don't worry about that. That is not going to be in there. But they are legitimately

worried that the Mueller report is going to contain evidence entirely out of context. Context matters. There was a mugging on Armacost Corner. Joe had to do it. How do we know? Because he was home at that time. So? What does that mean?

Well, he was in the area. So? So were 5,000 other people. It had to be Joe because I think he colluded with the Russians. What are you talking about? This is what Mueller is doing. He is painting a picture for you. Put a pretty little tree like Bob Ross. Put a little lake, little river.

Look at this gorgeous little waterfall. Remember Bob Ross used to put me to sleep. There's a very nice little Russian over there. Yeah, the Russians going to the park. Nice little Russian, right. Yeah, Bob Mueller. Mueller is the Bob Ross of federal prosecutors. He is.

A little low-level campaign worker right over there. Oh, happy campaign worker. Did you get it? Stop. You're going to make me laugh. I will. It was more fun when I was in a bad mood. Don't make me laugh.

Okay. So just to dial back a bit here, what we're talking about, again, two things in the report. Negative information out of context, which I wouldn't be surprised about at all, and efforts to rescue the dossier. out of context, which I wouldn't be surprised about at all, and efforts to rescue the dossier. The Papadopoulos portion of it is going to be an effort to rescue something other than the dossier. The Papadopoulos portion is going to be an effort to rescue the DOJ, the FBI, or, because we're not sure who was managing this, the international intel community that act as friendlies with the United States from their entrapment scheme using Joseph Mifsud

against Papadopoulos. Paint Papadopoulos as a really bad guy. That way, when it comes out that friendly intel agencies were trying to entrap George Papadopoulos on behalf of the Obama administration intel officials and others who wanted to make him look like a bad guy to destroy the Trump campaign and paint them with this Russian colluder label that didn't that was nonsense if we can paint Papadopoulos in the Mueller report as a really bad guy we will rescue component one the entrapment scheme. Component two that needs to be rescued is going to be the spying scheme,

which intersects with Carter Page and the dossier. They're not discrete elements, but somebody initiated this human spying scheme. So again, I'm telling you the Mueller report, I find it highly likely, based on Mueller's previous behavior in charging documents, that the second component of this is going to be to paint Flynn as a really bad guy as well in his report. He prosecuted Papadopoulos. He prosecuted Flynn.

Now, we're basing this on Sperry's piece. This is a part about Mike Flynn. On Sperry's piece and his reading of the charging documents which we covered on the show before. Remember, in the charging documents for Papadopoulos, hold that up there, hold that up there for a second, in the charging documents for Papadopoulos, he doesn't mention that

the emails about don't go to Russia. Look what happened with Flynn from the piece. Republicans say the special counsel also demonstrated collusion bias in his complaint against Mike Flynn, former prosecutors say.

Mueller charged the retired general with lying to FBI investigators about his conversation with the Russian ambassador during the transition, even though one of the investigators, Trump critic Peter Stroke, quote, had the impression at the time that Flynn was not lying or did not think he was lying, according to the FBI's own internal documents.

In fact, former FBI director James Comey has said Flynn provided truthful answers and wasn't intentionally misleading investigators on January 24th, 2017, when he was questioned. Folks, are we sensing a little bit of a pattern here? So Papadopoulos gets prosecuted by Mueller for nothing related to collusion, but writes about a whole bunch of ridiculous Russia nonsense in the charging documents, unrelated entirely to misstatements to the FBI Papadopoulos made. In there, he leaves out the exculpatory information telling Papadopoulos not to go to Russia.

And he repeats the exact same pattern with Mike Flynn. Now with Papadopoulos, they got to keep the heat off the entrapment. They tried to entrap him. With Flynn, they have to keep the heat off the human spying component, which was being, I have no question anymore, was being managed through Stefan Halper, a noted informant for the CIA and FBI that appears has a bug in for Flynn. Flynn. I don't know who puts him up to it, but as far back as 2014 appears to be informing on Mike Flynn, who is a noted critic of

the Obama administration and their policy on both terrorism and the Iran deal. They have to paint Papa D as a bad guy, because then they can say, what, Joe? Well, we were trying to entrap him because we thought he was Russia. He was dealing with the Russians. They have to paint Flynn as a bad guy. Why were you spying

on Flynn using a human intelligence asset, a spy? Well, he was a really bad guy, Joe, so we just had to do it. Oh, okay, cool. Watch for this in the Mueller report. Watch for how they write about

Papadopoulos. Watch to see if they include the Flynn, the fact that the FBI didn't think he was lying even though they charged him with lying. Watch how that is all magically left out. It's negative information. Watch. If you don't know that the negative information is spin

left out of context, you'll be under the assumption that this is in some way damaging. An email to set up a foreign meeting in Russia isn't even damaging in and of itself. It's even less damaging when you find out the campaign said, we're not doing those meetings. I got one more here for you. Let's get to this. These are great companies.

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Cohen and his connections to Felix Sater. From the piece? Nice, nice, sharp. A third troubling example Republicans point to is the special counsel's complaints against Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, which like other court documents included tantalizing hints of collusion. It's like other court documents included tantalizing hints of collusion. They got to save the dossier, Joe. Cohen's a key figure in the dossier, except it's all fake. Tantalizing hints of collusion that dissolved upon closer inspection. They say Mueller used the so-called Moscow project talks.

Trump's hope to build the skyscraper in Russia to connect Trump directly to Vladimir Putin during the campaign, while withholding from the court details that would exonerate Trump of such collusion. Again, another example of them painting Cohen and his role as a middleman. Cohen's not a good guy, by the way. I don't trust Cohen as far as I could throw him and I couldn't throw him far. But they're trying to paint Cohen as some kind of conduit between Trump and Vladimir Putin remember in the dossier Cohen's the guy who sets up the payments for this whole scandal to get the

DNC emails from WikiLeaks and the Russians and to pay off these key figures in the Russian government it's all fake that's the problem so Papa D they gotta save Entrapment and the reason for doing it. With Mike Flynn, they got to save themselves from the use of a foreign spy. Well, Flynn is a bad guy. With Cohen, they have to save the dossier. Cohen is a key figure in the dossier. And I will say

it again. The FISA was plan B. And the dossier is the FISA. In order for Mueller to save their reputation, he has to put meat on the bone. He has to show Cohen is a really bad guy who was working with the Russians and had deep connections to Vladimir Putin. What's the problem, Joe? They didn't have those connections. In the Paul Sperry piece in the show notes, there's a hilarious part where

the Mueller team, there were emails to the Putin folks. It was to like an online address that went to the basically like you email in the White House with the public email address. Sounds like they were very connected. They were like this show. They were really, Cohen couldn't even

get a private email address for anybody in the Kremlin. Oh, wow. Was he in deep or what? He was like the Sammy the Bull to John Gotti. I mean, are you kidding me with this stupidity? So the point on Cohen is Mueller leaves out in significant charging documents the fact that all of these communiques with Russia about building a project over there. One, we're totally legal. There's nothing illegal about a real estate developer

building real estate in Russia or anywhere else as long as they don't skirt the law here. And that's not what anybody's alleging. That's never been charged. And even worse, making it seem like there was some back channel, as Paul Sperry says in the piece. He quotes an insider over there.

It's absurd. Cohen had such a back channel, Joe, that they had to email like, hey, email us at info at White House whatever. You know where that goes, in the circular file somewhere. Right? Folks, there's no back channel. This is just Mueller trying to rescue the dossier. It's sad.

It's pathetic. It's pretty gross, too. All right, let me move on because I've really hammered this over the last two days. But I think now, if you really paid close attention to that, you know exactly what's coming. Negative information, which you should respond back immediately. Well, negative information is not criminal, correct? Because if that was the case, Hillary Clinton would be in jail 10 times over also negative information

followed up by exculpatory information means that the negative information wasn't really negative was it oh you didn't do any of that homework did you get ready and read it for how it tries to paint a picture of Russian collusion that doesn't exist.

There was no back channel. There was no Russian that met with Papadopoulos, agent of the Russian government. Mike Flynn was spied on. He was not connected to the Russians. He was not compromised by the Russians. This is all made up. It is a hoax and a big one. You know, I just realized I went totally out of order for the show.

So Paula will go back in order now. She's not happy with me at all. Now that I went out of order, she's probably even less happy with me. It's like the War of the Roses in here today. Remember that movie? Oh, yeah. Was that Kathleen? Was that Kathleen?

No, no, that was the lady. Yes, it was Kathleen Turner. Michael Douglas. War of the Roses. Yeah, I remember that movie. That's what it's like in here today. It's a little rough. We're going to have to draw a line.

Don't they draw a line like down the middle of the house at one point? Down the middle of the house, yep. I'm just kidding, folks. It's not that. I'm just messing with you. It's, you know, I got to get in a better, because I'm, all right, enough of me complaining. Bernie Sanders. I told you I had a few more cuts

from the disastrous town hall. For Bernie, not for Fox. The ratings were through the roof. It was the largest viewed town hall, I think, on any network. And I thought Brett Baer and Martha McCallum did a pretty darn good job. Listen, I don't say that because I worked there.

I thought they didn't... I wouldn't be using the sound bites otherwise. My show, Fox doesn't tell me what to put on this show. There was one outstanding one I thought was really classic where Martha McCallum tries to pin Bernie down of why he's such a grotesque hypocrite, again, on taxes. He wants everyone else to pay more taxes, of course, but he doesn't want to pay himself.

This is a good one. That's fine, but I'm asking you about the wealthy and how much higher you would make it. You said you don't agree with 70%. What would your number be? In the campaign in 2016, we talked about 52%. All right, so 52%. So would you be willing to pay 52% on the money that you made? You can volunteer.

You can send a check. You can volunteer, too. We have a... But you suggested, you suggested that that's what everybody in your bracket should do. Martha, why don't you give? You make more money than I do. Why don't you give? I didn't suggest a wealth

tax. And she's not running for president. We're going to fight for a wealth tax. And we're going to demand that we end the absurdity where major corporation after major corporation. You know what? In this tax bill that you are defending, families like the Koch brothers get billions and billions of dollars in savings.

That is absurd. Trump wants to repeal the entire estate tax. Huge tax breaks for billionaires. You got another question? Well, we have many questions. We have many questions. And listen, we want to get substance. We want to get details.

Well, let's do it. And the audience has a ton of questions, too. You know, there's this cat in my gym, right? This is a cool guy, man. He's like, I don't know, he's 60 or something. He looks younger than that, but I'm guessing. He works out a lot. And he must be like a ballroom dancer or something like that.

Cause he's always in there with one of those like unweighted bars. And he's always doing like some, I'm not a dancer. I mean, I'm as flexible as a fire hydrant. I couldn't, although this guy, you know, says I danced at my wedding and did a good job. There are significant portions of my wedding. I do not remember. I had, it had nothing to do with the alcohol. I'm just saying.

Someone told me I was a good dancer once. Paula, was I a good dancer? She says I was excellent. I don't remember that much. But the guy in the gym's dancing. He does this. He's really smooth, too. And people watch him sometimes.

Why am I bringing any of this up? Did you see Bernie dancing? Oh, yeah. Martha McCallum asks him a simple question. Dude. Well, she doesn't call him dude, but I can. Dude, you're proposing a 52% tax for millionaires. You are a millionaire.

Why not just pay the tax? Let me tell you about the Koch brothers. Let me tell you about Donald Trump. As a matter of fact, I saw this movie once when I was a kid, Old Yeller. This was a really good movie. Siskel and Ebert gave it two thumbs up. It was this story, but Bernie, what the hell are you talking about? I asked you a simple question.

Are you going to pay the tax rate you want the other millionaires like you to pay? Let me tell you about the burgers at McDonald's on my corner. They are good burgers. Let me tell you. They put extra pickles on the McDonald's burgers on the corner. This is a

good burger. I don't want to be told McDonald's is a bad burger. Bernie, we're going to try this one more time, okay? You are suggesting millionaires like you, limousine libs, and limousine conservatives too, you are suggesting they should pay a 52% tax rate. Are you going to pay that rate and lead by example? Let me tell you, Martha, you make more money than I do, Marta.

Marta with a great comeback. Hey, Bernie, I'm not running for president, and I'm not suggesting a 52% tax rate knucklehead. Marta, let me tell you about the Koch brothers. Yeah. Or are they the Koch brothers? I don't know because I have a hard time spelling they are really bad matter of fact the Koch brothers I saw this guy one time one of the brothers and I wanted

to backhand them and I couldn't do it because it's against the law Martha Martha's got to be looking at this guy like I'm sorry folks i'm enjoying this bernie sanders stuff way too much today i understand but this guy that was the worst answer i have ever and bernie thinks this town hall was a huge success yeah let me just put a little meat on the bone for you unlike bob muller putting fake meat on the fake bone of the dossier. Speaking purely ideologically, what we stand for and what the Libs stand for, we conservatives stand for economic freedom. We believe taxes should be collected

and paid for to pay for constitutional functions of government that there's widespread disagreement on. I mean, excuse me, agreement on. Our military. Our military. Maybe the courts. I don't think everything should be taxed at the local level.

But you get the hint. There's no hypocrisy there. Liberals want a tax to pay for economic growth. They want taxes to pay for schools. They want taxes to pay for schools. They want taxes to pay for everything, your healthcare, your retirement via Social Security. Yet liberals don't want to voluntarily pay that. What's my point here?

My point, folks, is there is no hypocrisy with conservatives. We donate extra money to things like charity and things like that because we believe it is a net good. My wife and I, thanks to many of you who buy some of our products out there, especially some of the shirts we sell on our website, we donate all of our proceeds to charity.

No one forces us to do it. It's not written in our contract with the t-shirt company. Nor are we looking for anybody's pat on the back. We do it because we genuinely believe it will for anybody's pat on the back. We do it because we genuinely believe it will change someone's life for the better. I know Joe

gives a lot of time to his church. I'm sorry if I didn't mean to bring that up, Joe. If you're uncomfortable with it, if you're not, you can control the podcast. You can cut it out yourself. That's cool. But just tell Paula so she can cut it out of video. But Joe donates a lot of time to the church. He's a performer. It's a lot of time.

I know it's time because sometimes I talk to him and he's tired on Monday. Nobody forces Joe to do it. Nobody. He does it because he thinks he's creating a net public good. Yeah. It's a spiritual experience. He wants people to feel the tunes. They don't want to have to pay someone.

So Joe does it. No one forces him to do it. My point here, folks, is the liberal philosophy is that government is a public good. Government should pay for economic growth, should pay for your retirement, should pay for your school, should pay for your hair care, should pay for your toenail care, your health care, everything, because it's a public good. So why don't people like Bernie voluntarily give extra money like conservatives do to charity? Why? Why do they have to be forced? Bernie has to be forced.

How do we know? Because Martha asked him if he gave the extra money over and he wouldn't answer, I will not give extra money. Let me tell you about Burger King. He doesn't want to answer the question because

he's a fraud. You're not a fraud. Be proud of that. You know, it's also fascinating. One more thing, and I get a couple other things here. Jim, sorry. They constantly, I played a clip a while back on Omiki Konst, another liberal who was on Tucker Carlson's show, who I know, I played a clip a while back of Nomiki Konst, another liberal

who was on Tucker Carlson's show who I know I don't want to say personal, but I know her from Fox it's not personal, but she said something interesting, she's like well these individual choices to pay more taxes aren't going to make a difference ladies and gentlemen, the whole world is

individual choices, people in government who vote, vote individual choices. They don't have a collective hive mind, folks. So if what you're saying is individuals won't make a difference because they can't be trusted to do the right thing and have to be forced to pay higher taxes, then why are the same individuals, when we elect them to government, why can they be trusted if you can't trust individuals?

Hold on. This is the sound of me scratching my head on the YouTube. Have you, do you understand how every argument liberals make is just dumb? You can't trust individuals to pay tire taxes because they won't do it. Why? Because they're bad. Okay. Well, who makes the choices on the tax rates in government?

Individuals. I thought you just said they were bad. No, no. When they get in government said they were bad. No, no. When they get in government, they're good. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Thank you. Thanks for clearing that up, fellas.

All right. Another gem of a Bernie moment. This one is, I heard this in the car. I was in the car. Was I with my daughter? I think I was with Isabel, my daughter. And I said to Isabel, did you hear what he just said? This is Bernie Sanders.

They're asking a question about felons in prison voting. This answer, I'd say shock you, but given it's Bernie, it might not. it might not. Do you believe that murderers and rapists or thieves or child molesters should have the right to vote from prison? Good question. All right, this is in my state. I recently researched this. It turns out that in our constitution in the state of Vermont, for hundreds of years, everybody has the right to vote, okay? So I think you make this division. If somebody does something terrible, they're a rapist, they're a murderer, we send them away. Sometimes we send them away from life.

But I also think that integral to who we are as Americans, no matter what kind of terrible things you did, you're paying the price. Maybe you're in jail for the rest of your life, but you have the right to vote. I'm not kidding. I looked at my daughter. I said, Isabel, did you hear what he just said? Isabel, Paula, get Isabel.

See if she can come in. I'm not making this up. I said to her, I turned to her in the car. I said, did you hear what this guy just said? This guy wants murderers and rapists in prison to be able to vote joe has this guy thought this through yes i need the murderers and the rapists to vote this is what did he say in there by the way this is this is not who we are yes no it is

we are not murderers and rapists bernie thankfully that's a very small sliver of the population this is not who we are stopping murderers and rapists no it is bernie murderers rapists felons in prison don't get the vote bud joe has he thought through the potential conundrum that may be here? If prisoners can vote, prisoners, by the way, who largely have to change their residency requirements because they're in prison and are all populated in one specific area, say they're in a prison in Western Maryland,

an area I know Joe's familiar with, which is populated with prisons, you would have a bunch of prisoners, some who didn't even grow up there, who can vote on the local policies impacting their own sentencing and elsewhere. Yep. Oh, isn't that a great idea? By the way, a lot of these prisons are concentrated in minority communities. How does that make you feel? Don't worry

folks in minority communities. The Democrats are in it for you. They want people transplanted into your communities in prison, murderers and rapists to be able to vote in your community. Good job. Well done Democrats. Way to be in it for the little guy.

Oh my gosh. The knucklehead. Where's Isabel? I wanted Isabel to do a guest appearance. She not there? Come on, Isabel. The audience never seen you. They don't even know what you look like.

They loved Amelia's appearance. Plus, she was just asking me for an opportunity to be on the show. Huh. All right. If she winds up showing up, Paul, I'll tell her she's welcome on any time. All right. Final ad today. Another great company.

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out one more thing. Some hypocrisy by another darling of the liberal left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. There was a piece up in the Washington Examiner. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Joe, blew Amazon out of New York in 2019 over tax breaks, but demanded one for herself in 2012 by John Gage, April 16, 2019. Again, don't let any of that hypocrisy get in the way of telling us how AOC's a real warrior for the cause. She ran Amazon out of New York over a tax break.

And then the story describes, excuse me, this book company. And in this book company, she wanted to get a tax break. So you don't like tax breaks unless they benefit you. But again, the AOC support, it doesn't matter. They were tweeting me all day because I have it up up on Gino.com too. This is an hypocrisy. Amazon's a big company and she's a small company and that tax break is different.

Yeah. Okay. Whatever. Fine. You keep telling yourself that that makes sense to you. I'm very sure it does. Your skull's like, what is that?

About four inches. There's your skull. Your skull protrudes out to here. You got like a Martian helmet on. I got this laser thing, right? That helps me with my joints. It may be this laser thing.

It's like, does that help your brain activity too? My gosh. I may need to rescue brains. Matter of fact, we take a B12 shot. That's the beat, the vitamin B12.

I mean, maybe it'll save some neurons after listening to Bernie and AOC today. We're on a roll today, Joe. I got an email. Some, a supporter of the show was like man i love your show but he thinks the ut he thinks the mic this the mic here he thinks it distracts from the show i don't think it's the real mic it's not like a prop folks this wire goes to a an amp and we

record the podcast audio different that's why it sounds different the podcast for the for the videos right here you see this little thing here sometimes you can see it yeah so it's not a prop and this is how we do the show and i'm sorry if it bothers you a little bit but he's like some youtubers don't like to see microphones hey sorry i love you youtube but you know it's part of the show it always has been all right final story of the day cns news which does some really great reporting i'll have this story in the show notes. More tax hysteria breaking out, Joe.

You know, the misinformation on what's going on with tax policy in the country is legion. Here's a piece by Terrence Jeffrey, who does a lot of phenomenal work on this topic. Joe, 150 million people filed. There were 150 million. Let me just say this correctly. There were 150 million tax returns filed, right, in this season? Mm-hmm. $50 million, a third of those filers, paid $0 or less in income taxes.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I just want to be clear because you're talking about, Bernie, we've got to pay the fair share. The rich are not paying the fair share. It is all on the poor. Actually, Bernie, a third of people are paying no taxes at all. Listen, I get it. I know Bernie's there. You feel the burn. I know you're not

interested in facts and data. Okay? I know that. But to the same people out there listening to my show, a third of people who filed taxes or a third of the filings are no i have no tax liability at all and as a as a snapshot from this piece this describes it right there 33.4 percent were classified as non-taxable returns meaning people who filed them paid zero dollars less here's the kicker it gets better at the same time joe 80 of all income taxes in other words 80 cents of every dollar of income taxes paid that year

were paid by tax return filers who had adjusted gross incomes or a hundred thousand dollars or more you got to pay your fair share okay bernie. So people who make $100,000 or more are currently paying $80 out of every $100 in income taxes. What is your fair share, Bernie? Let me tell you a story. I have this nail clipper and this will

clip a nail like no tomorrow. It's got a little pink thing on the side for the ladies, a little blue for the gents, and if you get a hangnail, this is the nail clipper for you. Bernie,

are you ever going to answer the fair share? Let me tell you about this remote control. This will control this TV. This one by, holy, alright Bernie, thank you. Okay, we're clearly not going to get to the fair share thing. People making

over $100,000 paid 80% of the taxes. Another portion of the CNS piece, another snippet from it. This, was it? No, no, that wasn't, sorry, that was all two points. See, I'm confusing my wife. I'm confusing my wife, who is already a 15

and is clearly annoyed at my Bernie Sanders voice. We may be employing this often. To the chagrin of many others. Another piece, this is the tax misinformation segment. Matt Palumbo, my resident fact checker at Bongino.com, wrote a great piece. It'll be in the show notes today. Please read it. Please support his work. By the way, he has a book coming out.

What's the name of his book? Oh, man. Paula, do you remember the name of his book? I forgot the name of it. Hold on. Folks, I got to look this up because you please support Matt. This is a great book. Palumbo. I'm actually looking this up now in Amazon because it's really fantastic. Palumbo. I'm actually looking this up now in Amazon. It's really fantastic. Palumbo. See,

what comes up? Spygate, the book he helped me research with. Hold on, folks. Listen, it's not a live show, but I treat it like a live show. Just give me a second because this is such a good book. And I want to give this. Here it is. Here, here it is. The book is called Debunk This, Shattering Liberal Lies. It is available available on amazon this is an awesome book i previewed a copy i wrote the forward go check it out debunk this by matt palumbo if you ever wanted to debunk arguments by your liberal friends this is the way to go matt wrote a great piece most americans believe this liberal lie on tax day well he covers two specific things uh piece number one is that well you know we didn't get a tax cut the

trump plan basically screwed us over we're in the middle class and we're poor and we didn't get a tax cut that is not true as matt points out in the piece and does a really good job please read it a better way to look at the trump tax brackets and how they affected the rich and the poor would be to look at how it changed the distribution of taxes. Before the Trump tax cuts, the bottom 80% of earners paid roughly 33% of all federal income taxes. But ladies and gentlemen, they received 35% of the benefits from the Trump tax cuts. The bottom 80% received 35% of the benefits despite only paying 33% of all the taxes. The top 1% paid 27% of all federal taxes, but only received 21% of the tax cut,

according to the center-left-leaning tax policy center. The only people who ended up paying more due to the Trump tax cuts were those who had their deductions capped at $10,000 for state and local taxes. Those caps affected 8% of taxpayers, but most still saw net benefits from the tax cut. Folks, if you don't think you got a tax cut, the probability is you are wrong.

The probability is high that you have been misled. Second point, that only the rich benefited from this. Matt brings up in his piece, which is a good one as well. I'm sorry. He's talking about the misinformation campaign. Now, I want to show

you how the left is actually celebrating the misinformation campaign to get people to believe a few things. What we addressed in the CNS piece, that the middle class bear most of the tax burden. It's not true. The upper middle class and the wealthy do. Secondly, that the poor are being, you know, raked over the coals by our tax system. It's not true.

50%, 33% of tax filings, 50 million of them, show no income tax liability at all. The income tax cuts by Trump only benefited the rich. Not true. Just showed you that again. How the largest percentage of the tax benefits went to people at the bottom of the income spectrum there. 80% at the bottom 80%. Not the top 1%. But look at this tweet by noted propagandist and gaslighter,

Matty Iglesias, who blocked me on Twitter, which is cool. I block everybody in the universe, too, at times. Matty Iglesias said Vox, Vox with a V, not F, not Fox, Vox. This is a left-leaning site. He's proud of himself. John Harwood, an NBC guy, tweets, no wonder the Trump GOP tax cut is so unpopular. Just 17% of Americans think their taxes were cut.

That is not the case, folks. The overwhelming majority of Americans got a tax cut. Listen to Matty Iglesias tweeting, he said he's celebrating this, Joe. Nobody likes to give themselves credit for this kind of messaging success, but progressive groups did a really good job of convincing people that Trump raised their taxes when the facts say a clear majority got a

tax cut they love it the left is celebrating the fact that they lied to you remember what gaslighting is gaslighting is telling someone a lie your taxes weren't cut. Saying it confidently, everybody knows your taxes weren't cut. And then repeatedly saying it while isolating people from the truth. The truth is the overwhelming majority of Americans, upwards of 80, 90% of them, did in fact get a significant tax cut. When you isolate people from the truth and you don't put that out there, of course they're going to believe your gaslighting lies. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. Please, again, pick up a copy of Matt's book. Sorry, I couldn't think.

We went back and forth on the title a few times, and he's just putting the finishing touches on it. That was the only reason I couldn't remember it, but it's a fantastic book. Debunk This. He's a good friend. He writes great articles on the website. Debunk This, available on Amazon by Matt Palumbo. Go check it out.

There's all kinds of tidbits of information like this you need to debate your liberal friends prior to the 2020 election. Hey, thanks again for tuning in. The visuals on this show may be a little bit different. We're going to have to jerry-rig some stuff, but we will be there for you for the Mueller Report. Don't worry. And please, check us out, youtube.com slash Bongino.

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