The Dan Bongino Show - The Whole Case was a Sham # 938 (Ep 938)

Episode Date: March 18, 2019

In this episode I address the stunning admissions by a former UK spy, now made public, that throw water on the entire scheme to take down Trump. I also address the desperate media attempts to salvage what’s left of the Mueller probe. I address the Beto fundraising phenomenon. Finally, I discuss a new immigration smuggling scheme which will destroy our borders.  News Picks:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez screws it up again.    Christopher Steele used unverified Internet rumors to support the dossier?    This ESPN story covers the back story of the relationship between the FBI and Christopher Steele.   Clueless liberals are still clinging to the myth that the Papadopoulos / Downer meeting initiated the FBI investigation. It’s not true.   In one of the worst incidents of media bias I’ve seen in a while, Reuters held a negative story about Beto O’Rourke until after his Senate race.   The new immigration smuggling scheme that should concern everyone.   The Remington lawsuit is another step in the wrong direction.    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 dan bongino show producer joe how are you today monday monday i'm doing good dad how you doing huh who's who sang that song is that the mamas and the poppers yes it was man you know I always get those wrong, too. So that was a shot in the dark there, and I finally got one right. Yeah, you got one now. Yeah. Now, I remember being in the car with my mother as a kid, sitting in the backseat, listening

to all our tunes, and that song, and remember Hall & Oates? Yeah, I do. Your Kiss is on my list. I remember that. So hearing that like a thousand times in that old crappy car we had, the Pinto. Yeah. Pinto. Remember the Pinto? Yeah. Interesting weekend. Paul and I were watching the movie, the Cormac

McCarthy novel turned into a movie, The Road, last night. Great movie. I love those apocalypse flicks. But one of the most depressing movies you will ever watch in your entire life with Viggo Mortensen. Highly recommend it. Folks, got a lot to talk about. Monday's always a stacked show because we have the pileup from the weekend.

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alright stacked weekend first off I've been getting a lot of emails people have been asking me about Judge Jeanine the show was not on this weekend I will be back as soon as it's back on

the judge is my friend I support the judge folks it shouldn't be a mystery I will definitely's back on the judge is my friend um i support the judge uh folks it's not shouldn't be a mystery anybody i'll definitely be back on the show uh when she comes back on on fox so uh i've been getting a lot of emails on that i don't want you to think i was uh avoiding the subject at all um so there we talked about that but there was a lot that broke over the weekend uh number one was this this story broke about christeele that's just, it's almost funny, Joe. And I don't mean, I mean like funny like bad.

Not like, well, you remember Joe Pesci in Goodfellas? Yeah. What do you mean like funny? How do you mean? No, no. What do you mean I'm funny? Do I amuse you? No, you're funny.

Yeah, do I amuse you? You make me laugh? This story was so embarrassing that, and it's going to tie into something I have later. I was in a Bonefish restaurant this weekend with my wife and daughter, and a couple of people came up to say hello. And while I was in the Bonefish,

I was reading a tweet by Chris Saliza from CNN, who still wants you to believe that this case started with the George Papadopoulos thing. But this is going to all tie in in a minute. So Christopher Steele, who we believe wrote parts of the dossier, has a story up at the Washington Examiner by Jerry Dunleavy. He does some really good stuff over there.

That's Steele. Folks, listen to this. Joe, the guy who is alleged to have written parts of the dossier, again, I don't believe he wrote the whole thing. I think that's part of the problem. His name was put on it because he had been used as an fbi source in the past on the soccer corruption case and therefore they thought if they put his name on in the future that it would be considered credible this is comical steel admits now that some of the information

that he had in the dossier he verified joe by going to CNN iReports. What? CNN iReports. He verified some of it. Wait, you may be saying, wait, he went to CNN. No, no, no, no, no. No, no. Time out.

T.O. Time out, baby. He didn't go to CNN. He went to CNN iReports. Well, what is CNN iReports? What is it? Yeah. You've never heard of this right i didn't know cnn i reports is a section of their website where the public can post anything they want and

is subject to no journalistic verification or standards at all so basically joe it's like twitter oh dude i'm serious it's like it's like a micro blog site where joe public can go in and post stuff you know i don't usually start out with spy gay stuff but i found this i didn't want to miss it because there's a lot of news i gotta get to today other stories too about about um beto and the jedi master of fundraising right joe yeah they too the Jedi Master. What do you call him? Oh, Beano. Yeah, no, you had a name for him, the Jedi Master. He was the Jedi Master of fundraising, Master Beto, right? Oh, yes, the Master Beto, sir.

Yes. I want to get to that, too, but this was hysterical. So now, the Steele dossier, one of the guys who wrote, allegedly wrote pieces of it, Christopher Steele, now says he verified portions of what was used to start the biggest case in American history, not as Silliza claims,

the Papadopoulos stuff. The Steele dossier started the biggest counterintelligence case in American history with regard to its impact on the American public. Started it based on basically a bunch of randos

posting on a CNN website called iReport where any Tom, Dick, or Harry can go in and post whatever they want. Let me read to you from this Washington Examiner piece by Jerry Dunleavy. Former British spy Christopher Steele admitted. By the way, where did he admit this? This was in a sworn deposition

because he's being sued along with fusion gps all right so it's not like this is cred this is like raise your right hand and swear this is true so steel admitted that he relied on an unverified report on the cnn website for part of the trump dossier which was used as a basis for the fbi investigation into trump according to deposition transcripts released this week steel said last year he used the 2009 report he found on CNN's iReport website and that he wasn't aware that the submissions to the site are posted by members of the public and are not checked for accuracy. Does not compute. Are not checked for accuracy. They're not checked for accuracy.

Steele didn't even know. This is a former UK spy who is supposed to be the key figure and information exchange agent in the most prominent counterintelligence case in US history. They ask him where he got the information. He got it basically from the comment section

of an iReport section of CNN's website where randos can just send in information that's not checked or verified at all. Folks. That ain't getting it, dude. You think? This is not getting it done at all.

Not even a little bit. Folks, do you understand how damaging this is? Again, it just speaks to how pathetic sorry these liberal left bootlicking acolytes and their media buddies that they're sure the media surgically attached their lips to the caboose of the left how pathetic it is that they still stand behind this just for a moment change the faces and the names and imagine that there was a massive spying operation by the Bush team uncovered on then candidate Barack Obama. And we found out the spying operation was initiated by a former British spy who used a bunch of randos comments on a CNN website to start the investigation. Folks, it gets better. I got more. It never gets.

the investigation. Folks, it gets better. I got more. It never gets, I mean, when I say better, I mean worse, obviously, but it never ever gets better qualitatively in this case. This case goes downhill by the moment. Here, it goes on. They talk about his methodology, how his methodology in the case was basically, Paul, throw up that, if you don't mind, his methodology in the case, it's up on the video if you want to watch the show rather than listen, you go to youtube.com slash Bongino. Please comment on the show, by the way, on YouTube if you watch it there. When asked about his methodology for searching the information, Steele described it as, Joe, get a load of this, what you would call an open source search. Oh, hold on, Paul, I don't put that on. Open source, man, does that sound complicated sound complicated you know people like jargon right jargon makes

you sound all sophisticated sometimes you know you're you're in the secret service you talk about like the drop zone or or the the hard room or something you know makes you sound like you know it's jargon we talk about so wait throw that back up so christopher steel's talking about doing an open source search what does open source search mean basically an open source search means where you go in the internet you access material that is available on the internet of relevance or reference to the issue at hand or the person under consideration this christopher steel folks this is the guy the fbi waltzed into at least his information not him physically into the pfizer court who basically admits that his open source

search very sophisticated this is the flux capacitor of searches in the spy arena basically involves christopher steel sitting at his computer like the Media Matters people, likely in his mama's basement with a Snuggie on, roasting s'mores and marshmallows, watching videos, if you know what I mean, Joe. In between his video search, he's sitting there, surfing the internet for information on Trump. Folks, this is real. It's

in Jerry Dunleavy's piece in The Examiner. Go to the show notes today, Bongino.com, click on podcasts in the menu. The show notes are attached. Read the article. If you subscribe to my email list, of course, I will send these articles right to you. Read, excuse me, the article by Dunleavy at the Examiner. These are not made up quotes.

These were, he raised his right hand and swore to this. So now we know that Steele got this information, the FBI, about Trump being a Russian colluder. He basically got it off the internet from about trump being a russian uh a colluder he basically got it off the internet from a few randos and then secondly his methodology joe about open source operations or whatever he calls it was basically steel in between watching episodes of internet porn or something it's christopher steel searching the internet for information on trump this is not made up this is real this really This really happened. Read the piece yourself. Okay. Point number three, this dope even acknowledges that the information out there

may have been a concerted Russian effort to get Steele to print stuff that the Russians wanted them to print. Put up that third slide from the washington washington examiner piece because it only gets worse when asked steel that is whether he warned fusion gps that the information in the dossier may be russian disinformation steel admitted joe that there's a general understanding that existed between us and fusion that all this material contained this risk so now let's just walk through this piece by piece yeah i hear you yeah all right this is just like because now as all of this comes out we get to pull it out to the you know to 60 to 120 000 feet and we get to openly mock all the idiots in the media who still believe in this stuff so now we know that christopher steel gets his information from randos on the internet. His open source search is him

surfing the internet in his snuggie in his mama's basement. And we know finally that even though he's aware that some of this information he finds on the internet may be Russian disinformation with the intention of screwing up our election that they want people like Steele to pick up, he's aware that that's

a substantial portion of the risk. So he's aware that that's a substantial portion of the risk. So he's aware that that may happen too. This guy sounds like a real genius, folks. And by genius, I mean a complete imbecile. I mean, can you believe this? And they are still falling for this. Now, I bring this up, I mean, we already know this dossier is garbage. We already know it was likely written by some people outside of Christopher

Steele, even though his name was put on it. And interesting, just a side note related to this. I got an email from a listener this weekend. You know who you are. I get a lot of great emails, emails on the website if you want to send an email over to us. I try to read them all. I at least get through some. Some are really long. I can't get through the whole thing. But a listener sent over said, hey, in case you're curious about the background between Steele and the FBI, which we don't get into much, and I'm not going to get into here, but there's an interesting article at ESPN. You know what?

I'll try to throw it in the show notes. Let me just take a quick note here today. Sent over from a listener. And it's fascinating because it's ESPN.com, the sports website. What does that have to do with the dossier and Christopher Steele? And it's fascinating because it's ESPN.com, the sports website. What does that have to do with the dossier and Christopher Steele? I keep telling you Steele's name, Joe, was put on the dossier by people in the FBI because they had used him before and he had provided credible information. And I believe the Bureau realized a lot of this information that Steele pulled off from randos off the internet. They knew it was crap.

So in order to give it an air of legitimacy, they had Steele stamp his name on it because he had worked with them before. This ESPN story is fascinating. It's long, but it's about Steele and his involvement with the FBI in the FIFA case I reference often. FIFA is the soccer governing bureau

and all the corruption that was involved in it. The FBI was involved in that case. So was Steele. And in that case, apparently he providedeele. And in that case, apparently he provided legitimate information. So it's interesting the backstory when you understand that Steele had worked with these people before.

That's why his name was considered a rubber stamp because he had already provided credible information. Does that make sense, Joe? Yeah, man. And by the way, the allegation that... The reason Steele is really in a bind right now is one of the allegations in the dossier they're being sued over is the allegation that this guy Gubarev and this company Webzilla were involved in the hacking of the DNC. Well, there's a small problem with that, Joe.

Gubarev and Webzilla say, what are you talking about? We've had nothing to do with the hacking of the DNC. And the fact that this information got out there, we're going to sue you for it. So when asked about, when asked, that's how all this came up, the Jerry Dunley VPs, how Steele got that allegation that Webzilla was somehow involved in the hacking in the DNC. He's like, oh yeah, we got it from the internet, from the CNN thing. Folks, this is how embarrassing this case is. You are, I'm sorry, but you are a genuine sucker if you believe in this i really big problems all

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I appreciate it. The only time it does kind of, I don't want to say bother me because I don't want to sound like a pretentious person, but only because I can't talk is when I'm on the elliptical doing like tabata rounds for cardio and so it's like nice to meet you you know you can barely talk so not that it bothers me it's just i can't talk when people are so sometimes in the gym people come up and i'm doing cardio or if like i'm trying to go for a PR and a bench and whatever I got that up halfway to hey they're like ah okay now I need a spot because I'm gonna

die but I was out in the bone fridge I'm reading this uh I'm reading this article uh I'm reading this excuse me tweet by Chris Saliza um Saliza it this guy I don't understand why this guy's a credible source he's the guy who wrote the article in the washington post uh trump's chances of winning the election are approaching zero which was kind of comical at the time yeah maybe i'll send that to paul we can include that that was a good one too uh yeah he read trump's he wrote they put his name on this too why you would write an article like that pre-election is ridiculous obviously nobody's chances of winning an election are approaching zero. That's pretty stupid. But there's something going on right now in the media, and I want you to have a heads up.

And Saliz's tweet is not just about him. It's about a larger strategy in the media to provide air cover for Mueller. Here's what's going on, folks. Lead first. The Mueller report, if there is a report issued, the Mueller report is going to be a box of air popcorn. There's nothing in there. You know, when you get that computer and you get in a box and there's air popcorn and finally it, oh, there's a computer box. You know, the air popcorn shields it from the impact, right? While it's being shipped. The Mueller report is the air popcorn. You're going to open the box and there's nothing but air popcorn.

You got an actual shipment of air popcorn. That's what it is. So I'm noticing in the media now and this is why i bring up this solicit tweet that they're trying again joe to deflect from the dossier we just addressed the rando blog post generated internet surfing christopher steel snuggie wearing guy they're trying to deflect from that now And they're trying to go back to the old narrative again, Joe. The old narrative being that the dossier didn't start this investigation. It was the Papadopoulos downer conversation.

Folks, they're doing this. So just to be clear, Saliza's doing what a lot of people in the media are going to start doing very shortly. Because the report is going to start doing very shortly because the report was a toe is going to be a dud and we know now that the fbi based their entire case on the rando generated snuggie wearing christopher steel report they're going to have to give the fbi another reason why they started this case you following me joe yeah yeah the bureau did it on the dossier started that's embarrassing this is a facepalm like you've never seen in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mueller's report is going to have to indicate at some point that there's no there there.

So the media now is going to have to cover for the FBI because they don't want you to believe Barack Obama spied on Trump, which he did. The team spied on Trump. There's now no refuting that among sane people anymore. So they're now returning back to it wasn't the dossier that started this it was george papadopoulos's uh meeting with alexander downer and the tip they got later right around july folks this is media spin this is total garbage i want to give you the ammunition right now as to why that is bunk and i just destroyed saliza on he doesn't even bother to respond and i want to say this, a hat tip to the undercover Huber account. I don't know who runs it, but they just destroyed Saliza too.

So point number one, Joe, this is fascinating. And this goes back again to Steele's relationship with the FBI. Steele had worked with an FBI agent in the past on a number of cases. I believe the FIFA case included the soccer corruption case. The guy's last name is Gaeta, G-A-E-T-A. Now, as Margo Cleveland in her piece at The Federalist, which is in the show notes today as well, is definitely worth your time, indicates, if the dossier didn't start this, right, and it was started by the Papadopoulos stuff, which they didn't get until basically the end of July. There's the screenshot of the piece there. Then how is it that before the opening of the case, July 31st, right? So just follow me, folks. July 31st, crossfire hurricane, the investigation into Donald Trump starts, according to the CNN Chrysalisa narrative,

because of the Papadopoulos-Downer conversation in the bar, right? Then how is it that on July 5th, Joe, is July 5th before July 31st? Yes, it is, Dan. Thank you very much, Joe. How is it that this agent, Gaeta, who knows Steele from the FIFA case,

is meeting with him in London? Let me read to you from the Margot Cleveland piece. This is fascinating. Oh, sorry, I lost my place there. Where are we? Stand by. This is fascinating. Oh, sorry. I lost my place there. Where are we? Stand by. Sorry, folks. I have this done in order here. Here we go. Orr's testimony confirms press reports that Steele flew to Rome to meet with an FBI contact and later, with the approval of the Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, on July 5th, 2016, Gaeta traveled to the FBI. She

traveled to London and met with Steele at the offices of Steele's firm, Orbis. Newland would later appear on Face the Nation acknowledging that Steele passed on two to four pages of short points and that the immediate reaction was, this needs to go to the FBI. There's something for the FBI to investigate. So let me ask you this, folks. Riddle me this, right? this folks riddle me this right if the case starts on july 31st pursuant to this according to the crystal is a cnn narrative because again they're trying to get you away from the dossier because it's debunked and they don't want to make the obama administration look like the police state tyrants they were no no no it was the popadopoulos tip right around the 31st how is it on july 5th

the fbi's meeting with christopher steel who produced the dirty dossier, who's, quote, passing on a few points. How is that? Joey, this isn't hard to follow, right? Like, you are the audience. You're picking up what I'm putting down, right? Time travel? I don't know. Open door?

I mean, black hole? Time travel? Michael J. Fox? Like, you know, Back to the Future? What's going on? DeLorean? Carson? I don't know.

I can't explain that either. How, if they opened the case on July 31st because of the Papadopoulos tip, that the dossier was discussed on July 5th with the FBI, and that doesn't make any sense. But of course it doesn't. Now, point number two. Again, we're being led to believe, just so you follow the timeline, that all of this began on July 31st because of a tip.

Yet all the action is happening in this case before July 31st. And it's all based on spying and the dossier. But Saliz is not a bright guy. So I don't expect him to figure this out. He's a gaslighting activist for the left who masquerades himself as a journalist. He's an embarrassment. But this is his job to run cover for the police state. Point number two, from the Margot Cleveland piece.

Second, we know that a paid government informant, Stefan Halper, met with the Trump campaign advisor, Carter Page, in mid-July at a conference in London. Halper's involvement before the supposed July 31st, 2016 launch date of Crossfire Hurricane, as well as the locale london i indicate the initial stages of the investigation were handled far from fbi headquarters oh my gosh ladies and gentlemen what kind of a dip do you have to be to believe in this nonsense of course the case was initiated

before the alleged tip came in July, right around the July 31st date. I mean, this guy pretends to be, this is why CNN are the basement dwellers, you know, of cable news. There's a good account on Twitter, if you all are on Twitter, at Road, R-O-A-D, like the movie I watched yesterday, M-N, Road M-N. Follow this guy. He does a great Twitter account.

He puts out every day the daily ratings for the cable news channels, Fox, MSNBC, the individual shows, the demos. It's pretty cool. It's easy to read too. He puts it out every single day for the day before. I want you to read. He does CNN in red. You can't miss it. It looks like a quickie spreadsheet cnn is always always at the bottom and this is why they hire george costanza aka brian stelter known conspiracy theorist and liar right they hire him he's in a joke and then they hire people like saliza who run mounds of interference for the police state because that's what he does he's not a reporter case was started on july 31st with the tip really how come all this stuff's going on before july 31st like joe said maybe marty mcfly can explain to us right remember marty from back to the future what was

the bad guy in that the antenna biff maybe biff can explain it remember biff doesn't he get a hold of the and back to the future three he gets a hold of the sports almanac and becomes a billionaire because he bets all the games which is clearly kind of stupid because if He gets a hold of the sports almanac and becomes a billionaire because he bets all the games, which is clearly kind of stupid because if you got a hold of the almanac, you remember the butterfly effect. But that's a whole other story. Unless Saliza's met Marty McFly

and got into DeLorean, Saliza's just making it up to run interference for the police state. Now it goes on, it gets better. I promise I've got more, folks. I know this is heavy on this stuff, but this came out over the weekend. It requires you to have this knowledge in your head

at the tip of your tongue for your silly liberal friends who are getting ready to transition. But the case started on July 31st with Papadopoulos. Really? How come they were meeting July 5th then in London with Steele? Oh, I don't know. Of course you don't know. You're a liberal.

You don't know anything. You've been vaccinated against fact. All right, here we go. New York Times, January 6th article. Hat tip undercover Huber, by the way, for picking this one up. Good call. I took a screenshot of the article. New York Times, January 6th.

It is unclear whether they highlighted the British role, which had been closely held in the briefing. He's talking about a briefing that Donald Trump was given. But it is a critical part of the timeline. Listen to this, folks. Because it suggests that some of the first tip-offs about the Trump team in the fall of 2015 came from voice intercepts, computer traffic, or human sources outside of the United States as emails and other data from the DNC float out of the country.

Wow, that's amazing. I thought this whole investigation that supposedly was not about Trump was about the DNC hacking started, according to Chris Saliza, July 31st, 2016, Joe, because of a Papadopoulos tip. That's fascinating. That's fascinating because the New York Times themselves says in the fall of 2015. Okay, Joe. Okay.

Joe. Yeah. Joe, can you get the abacus? You have Jay's abacus handy? We haven't bought Jay's abacus. For you older listeners, a guy named Jay sent us an abacus one time. This is for complicated math because sometimes, you know, we have liberals who watch the show. Their skulls are like 45 feet thick.

So the new liberal narrative is the case started on July 31st of 2016 against Trump. Joe, I'm going to ask you to do some simple math. The New York Times themselves reported January 6th that the case, in fact, started in the fall of 2015 when the Brits were sending us information on computer trafficking from human sources. Joe, 2015 or 2016, I want you to subtract 16 from 15 and i want you to tell me the number you get take your time with this 2016 16 minus 15 go on use jay's abacus i know this is complicated 16 minus 15 show the audience the abacus put up in your campus there we go yeah you got it you gotta figure it. Figure it out, buddy. Yeah, 16 minus 15 is one, dude.

One! One! Okay, thank you. So one, meaning one year prior to Chris Silliza's alleged date that the case started, the Brits were sending us information. Thank you, Jay Zabicus. You're the best. We love Jay Zabicus.

There it is. Hat tip to Jay. You sent us that, gosh, what, three years ago? It seems that way. Six months ago? Sometimes people ask us, who is Jay Zabacus? There is no Jay Zabacus. It's Jay Zabacus.

Sorry, it's just an old joke. Yes, this is the New York Times reporting this that a year earlier. So again, annihilating silly Saliza's point that the case started in 2016. Maybe you should go correct the New York Times that reports it as far back as 2015 that the Brits were relaying information from, quote, human sources and others. But he doesn't know that, again, because he's not a bright guy. He doesn't want to do research.

Finally, one last point. Yeah. And then I'll move on here to other stuff for the day. So, again, you're alleging that papadopoulos george papadopoulos meets with downer in this you're not well the meeting happened but saliza's allegations that the papadopoulos meeting started this thing which they found out about at the end of july is absurd so papadopoulos meets with downer and the original allegations were that george papadopoulos foreign policy advisor advisor to Trump, had told this Australian diplomat in a London pub,

over a boozy night, they were talking boozy, they had all these drinks, that in other words, he slipped because he was drunk or something. This is the allegation, Papadopoulos, that the Russians had dirt on Hillary. Oh, really? Is that the case? That's fascinating.

Because Alexander Downer himself gave an interview to the australian let me just read quickly from some cuts at the australian cuts of the piece from the australian where he actually gave this is downer the guy actually in the meeting so liz is alleging started the whole thing okay i'm just going to read the last part of this so he's talking to the australian joe and remember it's supposed to be some boozy encounter where they're all loaded and drunk and they've been drinking all night uh no, Paul, this is a different one. He says he leans across the coffee table and insists, keep that up though,

insists conspiratorially, it was just one gin and tonic. Okay. So now instead of them being all drunk, keep that up, that they had one gin and tonic. That's it. So they're not drunk now. So in other words, the FBI story that, oh, he was drunk, pop it up, let this information slip out. Again, it said did Downer even think this was intriguing? He says, well, it was worth reporting,

but it wasn't the only thing we reported. We reported back to Australia the following day or a day later. It just seemed interesting. Okay. When asked about dirt, did Papadopoulos tell you they had dirt on Hillary? Downer doesn't hesitate. He didn't say dirt. He said material that could be damaging to her. No, he said it would be damaging. he didn't say dirt he said material that could be damaging to her no he said it would be damaging he didn't say when it was finally nikuta grahia we didn't know anything about trump and russia and we had no particular focus on that downer said of the papadopoulos oh my gosh ladies and, it only gets better. This is just, I mean, you realize what kind of a dope you have to be to believe in this? So the FBI's original story, just almost covered the mic there.

The FBI's original story, that Papadopoulos was drunk and slipped. No, they had one gin and tonic. I'm not really sure that that aligns with your, it was this booze filled, the escapade in this London pub. One gin and tonic. Allegedly Papadopoulos was talking about some kind of Trump-Russian collusion, Downer denies that.

And when even asked about the dirt on Hillary, he says, oh no, he didn't say anything about dirt on Hillary. He said that the Russians may have had information that could have been damaging on Hillary, which was being reported in the news. Gosh, ladies and gentlemen. Realize what kind of a knucklehead you have to be to believe in all this nonsense?

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And the strategy they're taking is a financial one. So let me just be clear. Let me lay out kind of how the left is devolved here, not evolved, devolved because it gets more and more tyrannical by the moment. The left figured out a long time ago that their policies are not going to be accepted by a wide swath of Americans, at least not a wide enough swath that they can win outside of congressional districts. In other words, Joe, things like, you know, grotesquely high taxes, government run healthcare, monopolies on government schools. These are things that are

never going to get 51 approval they're just not there is something about the gene code of people in the uh of the american people and people who come here to seek a better life that entrepreneurial gene they have that makes americans inherently unaccepting and people who come here too by the way of government power that's typically why they flee where they came from because they want freedom they yearn for freedom it's not me being pollyannaish it just is i mean if you are happy with police state tyranny you would stay in a lot of them you know overwhelming a number of countries around the world that engage in far-left type socialism enterprises and democratic socialism

where you're under the yoke of government all the time they don't want that so they come here people are not going to accept that here it's not in their blood i saw it my mother-in-law who has just got this entrepreneurial spirit who migrated here from columbia and just is not going to be held down by the thumb of government it's just not going to happen the left realizes that they understand that that may apply in europe and scandinavian countries where more homogenous cultures are generally more accepting of the yoke of government around their neck all the time, but it's not going to happen here. So what they knew they couldn't get past through political appeal, in other words, Joe winning elections, they then moved to the courts. They're now having

trouble with strategy too. And keep in mind, it doesn't mean they abandoned the electoral strategy. They'll still take congressional districts in New York, California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, whatever they can take. I'm just saying that their focus shifts and changes depending on the political environs of the time. They tried the judge strategy under Obama, basically remake the court system. So things that they couldn't get past, socialism type, democratic social, which is a garbage term, there's no such thing, type policies they couldn't get past at the voting booth, Joe, that they would sue in court and get them instituted. I mean, basically, it's what happened with Obamacare when John Roberts, sadly, a Republican appointee, saved Obamacare, despite the fact that Obama himself had said it wasn't a tax. So you see that in the courts. Now they're having an issue with the courts as well.

Legal insurrection is a good piece I have up in the show notes today about the remaking of the courts under the Trump era. How it's hitting high gear now and how the Third Circuit is going to flip for the first time in a while from a Democrat appointed judges to Republican appointed judges. Ladies and gentlemen, the judicial branch has become entirely political. Stop the nonsense pretending these are, you know, the judges, these are judges are above. They're not above at all. I think we've clearly thrown that. Let's just stop the nonsense. The judicial branch is a political branch like any other. I'm sorry if you believe otherwise. You've been grotesquely misled. Now that they're starting to lose the courts due to Trump appointees, joe the left has moved on to another strategy the left strategy now is a financial war now kevin williamson has a piece

up in the national review i have up in uh in the show notes today and it's a good one it's about a lawsuit against remington over the uh you know horror at sandy hook which i think changed everybody's lives but firearms manufacturers joe there's the piece up. Paula has it up on the YouTube. Again, right now, youtube.com slash Bongino if you want to watch the show. But I encourage you to read the piece. The piece is called The Bogus Lawsuit Against Remington by Kevin Williamson, March 17, 2019, National Review. Firearms manufacturers, Joe, who engage in legal commerce,

in other words, that don't break the law and manufacture legal firearms, are protected from lawsuits up into a point. There's a federal law, the Legal Commerce Act, where they're protected against frivolous lawsuits. There's a group in Connecticut that found a way around that. They're suing Remington, the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre. They're suing the maker of the rifle. It was Bushmaster bought out by Remington later, suing Remington under the guise, Joe,

that it was faulty marketing, that it was some disingenuous marketing that was used to sell the rifle to the mother of Lanza. If you're trying hard to follow it, yeah, I know. I really can't make it make sense because it doesn't. They're saying basically that it was marketed as some kind of like military rifle to appeal to, you know, whatever conspiracy theory crowds or something. And that this is just disingenuous marketing. And therefore it was some kind of a scam.

The lawsuit is not going to go anywhere. But it's dangerous. And I bring it up because this is the left's attempt now to move on from just political engineering of political races, the engineering of the courts, to engineering of a financial system that completely crowds out, bankrupts anyone that aligns with conservative values, including people like gun manufacturers who believe in the right to manufacture and sell firearms to law-abiding, responsible Americans. They want these companies bankrupted, and they feel like if they open the door to lawsuits against firearm manufacturers that, ladies and gentlemen, it is over. There will be no one who will be able to pay the insurance necessary to produce firearms anymore. Now, this financial strategy is not just—I bring up that because I like to tie in multiple

storylines of what's going on in the news today. So you're well-versed in everything. This is also a strategy in the financial arena as well with actual financial companies like banks. Don't believe me? I want to play a cut of Maxine Waters, chair of the Financial Services Committee, engaging in basically an inquisition with the CEO of Wells Fargo. And this is done for two reasons. Wells Fargo didn't play ball

with them. Remember, the left wanted Wells Fargo to stop funding certain components of the gun rights movement or stop providing funds or banking services, which there was nothing illegal about at all. Wells Fargo wouldn't play ball. So Wells Fargo has become public enemy number one with the left. But they've also become public enemy number one because the left wants to tell them who to lend money to. Or, more importantly, Joe, who not to lend money to. Listen to Maxine Waters just haunting this guy like I've never seen. You've been making change at this company for 30 years,

including fundamental change as CEO. Since you gave that testimony, federal regulators have announced several enforcement actions relating to customer abuses at Wells Fargo. The Federal Reserve in February 2018 imposed again an unprecedented asset freeze on the bank, on and on and on, with all of this experience and the length of time that you have been there, the roles that you have

played, you have not been able to keep Wells Fargo out of trouble. You keep getting fined. Why should Wells Fargo continue to be the size that it is, and should it be downsized, or what else could be done? and should it be downsized or what else could be done? Well, I believe that Wells Fargo serves our 70 million customers, one out of three U.S. households, in a very effective way today. And I think the way in which we serve our customers is reflective of the changes that I've made since I've become CEO, not only in terms of the fundamental changes that I mentioned in addressing past issues, but also in terms of the new customer capability, customer focus.

Thank you very much, Mr. Sloan. I appreciate that. All the changes that you said that you have made are not evident, and you do not have the kind of customer satisfaction that you are alluding to. You see where they're going with this? You hear the threat there, Joe, that she's going to, oh, maybe we should break up Wells Fargo. Folks, this is, listen, nothing the left does is done by accident.

Gosh, don't fall into that trap. Nothing the left does is done by accident. They are very tactical. Don't write Maxine Waters. Listen, we know she says ridiculous, outrageous, absurd things, but don't write off what she's doing there. She's a very powerful spot as the chair of the Financial Services Committee. She is threatening the CEO of a bank to break up his bank. Now does the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clip I played last week during

the podcast where she attacks the same guy by the way the CEO of Wells Fargo for providing banking services for uh you know companies involved with ICBP and for the Dakota pipeline does that make sense Joe yeah man so now what's gonna happen is if you provide banking services to perfectly legal companies that provide the government services or provide natural resources services like pipelines. And this pipeline doesn't comport with the Green New Deal. And a company that cooperates with ICE doesn't support the Democrats open borders agenda. You are going to be hauled up the Capitol Hill for basically an inquisition by Maxine

Waters and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Folks, this is being done intentionally. It's being done intentionally to starve off anyone who does not toe tip toe up to the far left line and comport with their agenda. Understand this is their next fight. Now, I am not a fan of government regulation ever. But this is where somebody has to get involved. Now, I hear there's legislation bouncing around right now that may protect these people from these companies, from lawsuits if it's legal lending. I don't know, folks, but this is very dangerous if this continues.

Because don't think for a second Wells Fargo wasn't watching that. They know exactly what Maxine Waters was saying. Maybe we should break up your company. Maxine Waters, Joe, noted genius on financial policy, banking policy. I mean, seriously, folks, this is an evolution or a devolving of the left. They can't win political fights. They move to the courts. They're now losing in the courts. So they're moving to financial tyranny, lawsuits, sue everybody, gun makers, whatever you can get your hands on.

Don't pull the protections, financial protections from the from engaging in legal commerce,en financial institutions that lend to anyone that doesn't comport with our agenda with breaking them up. You know, Joe, it's depressing, man, where we are. Yeah. It really is. That this is the United States of America, a constitutional republic, and we have lawmakers sitting up there like this is the third world, threatening legal business owners and CEOs with breakup if they don't comport with their agenda.

Remember Ocasio-Cortez? Why is your Wells Fargo caged children? The guy's like, what the heck are you talking about? Are you just making this up? Then she asks him, why did Wells Fargo lend to a company that built the Dakota pipeline? And if it leaks, isn't that your responsibility? We don't manage the company, ma'am.

They don't care. this is financial tyranny they're doing this for a reason it's because they can't control the courts anymore and they can't get a national agenda passed ladies and gentlemen excuse me these people are total tyrants they know no limits. This will never stop. Gosh, it really is frustrating dealing with these people. Okay, on a lighter note, not so lighter note, because this guy's no better, but the Jedi Master is back. The Jedi Master of fundraising, Beto O'Rourke. You're waiting, sir sir so I've

warned you a while ago I've been getting a lot of emails from Texas listeners and I appreciate that saying Dan you're spot on do not sleep on Beto is it Beto or Beto I don't know what it is Beto right is it I don't know what it is Beto does he say it with

a French accent I don't know what it is. Beto Beto. It doesn't matter. Does he say it with a French accent? I don't know what it is. Beto. I don't know what it is. Is it Beto? I guess it's Beto, right? So Beto enters the race in one of the more bizarre launch videos ever.

Even my, you know, my wife, we had a lot to do this weekend. My wife thought it was hysterical watching it, but he's sitting on the couch with his wife announcing, and he's doing these hand justic you think i talk with my hands these hand gesticulations that are out of control there are even trump was making fun of him and uh when we saw a thing on twitter where you know those uh those um those those air things you

see on the side of the road where the air blows and the thing's going crazy and then it blows out and it collapses ago That looks like Beto. He's like, you, I got you. He reminds me of, remember Rocky IV when Apollo Creed jumps in the ring with Drago? He doesn't realize how bad it's going to be. I want you. I want you, chump.

That looks like Beto in the thing. He's like Apollo from Rocky IV baiting in Drago. He doesn't realize Drago is like, you know, Drago, it's not going to end well. It didn't end well for Apollo. I keep seeing lost in space robots. Danger, Will Robinson, danger. It's so weird. I want you.

I want you. Or even, remember Rocky II, Apollo's kind of subdued. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But even Rocky I, he comes out. Rocky 1, he comes out to slide, playing Rocky. I want you, Stallion. I want you. That's Beto.

Beto's all over the place. So one of the more bizarre announcements he's ever seen. He's just a very strange guy. Apparently at 15 years old, he wrote some story. It's a family-friendly show, so I'm not even going to talk about what's in it. I'm serious, folks. But he wrote some like, listen, the guy was 15. Let's not get crazy.

But still, it's a very bizarre, sick story. And I don't know about you, but at 15, I wasn't writing stories about killing people and stuff. It's really weird. Beto just strikes me as a very strange guy. But ladies and gentlemen, he has this cult-like following. And I warned you about this before. Because I saw this with Obama as a Secret Service agent when I was getting feedback from agents in the field who were on the Senator Barack Obama

candidate for president detail. Remember, Secret Service agents will protect the candidates as well once you meet a certain threshold. Folks, do not downplay this guy. Now, proving my point, in case you thought that was a joke beto announces in 24 hours ladies and gentlemen he raised 6.1 million dollars that is substantial he is now outpaced even uh crazy uncle bernie bernie sanders in a 24-hour fundraising count bernie just raised five change. That is a serious number, folks. $6.1 million in 24 hours?

Put that in perspective. When I ran for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, we ran for almost a year and a half. And what did we raise, Paul? Like $1.8 million? I mean, we've raised a third of that in a year and a half. That is a lot of money overnight. You've got to worry about this guy.

But on another Beto story that broke over the weekend, I like to talk about stories. The headline there is, watch this guy. This guy is going to be big trouble. There are a lot of negatives out there, but we have a lot of negatives about there, but there are a lot of

negatives about Obama, too. You had a ton of stories about Obama that came out that he just glanced right off them. There's another story about, this isn't so much about Beto, the story's about Beto, but the story more about the lead here is media bias is just grotesque right now. Another story out there,

Reuters, Joe, held a story about the Washington Examiner piece by Dan Chaitin we have in the uh show notes today about this headline Washington Examiner Reuters held story about Beto O'Rourke until after the Senate race Reuters had a story this is crazy they had a story about Beto being part of a group called this is not a joke folks I'm not being funny Beto was part of a group called the cult of the dead cow it is not a joke, folks. I'm not being funny. Beto was part of a group called the cult of the dead cow. It's not a joke. I don't know if this is like a matrix thing or what. These apparently were some computer hackers who've been involved in some very serious stuff who admitted that they had a member of Congress. Now, some deal was cut that they wouldn't announce that Beto was basically a cult of the dead cow computer hacker. What the deal was cut that they wouldn't announce that Beto was basically a cult of the dead cow computer hacker.

What the deal was cut that they wouldn't say that until after his Senate race was over. Folks, seriously, do I have to even ask you with a straight face? Do you believe if this was a story about Donald Trump, that this story would be held till after the election? Ladies and gentlemen, people made up. Now, no one's denying the story, by the way, including Jedi Master Beto. All right. Nobody's denying the story by the way including uh jedi master beto all right nobody is denying the story that this happened the crazy thing is stories were written about donald trump up into in the election and afterwards up until now the more precise way of saying that are entirely fabricated and the stories were taken from randos on CNN. I report from a discredited loser,

British spy who hated Donald Trump, who fed them into the FBI and was used to actually prosecute him. But if it's a negative story about Beto, that's actually true. It's not used to prosecute him for being a member of a hacking group, committing crimes called the cult of the dead cow or allegations of committing crimes, right? They're not even, group committing crimes called the cult of the dead cow or allegations of committing crimes right they're not even it's not even used until after the election because they don't want to damage

jedi masturbato you must be kidding me now in the media folks do you know why we don't take you seriously saliza stelter ch Cuomo, all of you people. Nobody takes you seriously. Nobody takes you seriously. I don't even use analogies anymore to other groups of people because I don't want to insult them. You are the worst of the worst. Worst of the worst. And then this weekend, trying to pin this awful tragedy in New Zealand,

which we talked about, and we are trying to pin it on Donald Trump. I mean, like every time I think we've reached the basement of new lows for the media, they surpass it and it gets worse. All right. One more story that broke over the weekend support. I covered it.

I'll use the twitchy piece because it was covered in the Washington Post, but I don't want to give the Washington Post any clicks. I'm really tired of them and their propaganda nonsense, too. It's about new smuggling schemes. This new smuggling scheme by people trying to get illegal immigrants to the border. Ladies and gentlemen, the new smuggling scheme is no smuggling scheme at all. Here's what they're basically doing now. basically doing now because the democrats are hell-bent on enforcing this flores decree where we cannot uh keep children with their parents in these immigration facilities for more than roughly

20 days joe what is happening is we're having to let people out into the country so now joe what happened that created an obvious incentive for people in uh central america and other locations to cross through mexico show up at the border by bus you got to read this speech by twitchy the new scheme and i almost say jokingly because it's not a scheme at all they're just taking the bus to the border and turning themselves into border patrol we're here asylum that's the scheme it's no more dramatic than that. So whereas in the past, you would have to sneak into the country, hope you weren't caught, or if you were caught, get an ankle bracelet for your hearing, cut the ankle bracelet off and disappear.

Now the new scheme is just bust your way to the border, declare asylum, and you're golden because you'll never be held. Make sure you have kids with you, by the way. This is what's going on. Now, this eliminates, as they say in the piece, the need for stash houses. What they used to do is they used to stash a lot of these illegal immigrants in stash houses

across the border of Mexico, Joe. Wait for the opportune moment to cross when they thought Border Patrol wasn't there and it would be a smuggling scheme. This isn't a smuggling scheme at all anymore. Folks, if we do not change the asylum laws immediately, we will have uncontrolled flows at our southern and potentially northern border. We will have no ability to stop

at all. None. Folks, I'm the spouse of a legal migrant to this country. Legal immigration has a role. No question. Unfettered open borders illegal immigration will be a disaster. A disaster. Now there's a way to stop this. We have got to get a law in place where any asylum claims, any, have to be made at the first, that's already on the books, but have to be made from that country. You're not allowed into the country until your case is adjudicated there.

In other words, Joe, if you come from Central America into Mexico, your claim for asylum should be made in Mexico, not the United States, right? You're trying to escape your home country, not get to the United States. That's what you're alleging in an asylum claim. Right. But if you are going to claim asylum in the United States and you're from Central America and you're doing it from Mexico, because we don have a we don't we have no border with Guatemala, but we do have a border with Mexico. Then you have to make that claim from an embassy or a consulate in Mexico.

You are not allowed to do it in the United States. You're not in your home country anymore. So your claims of you're in danger should be mitigated. You're in Mexico now. You're not in Central. You not in honduras or guatemala you understand where i'm going with that oh yeah man well easy central america but you're not in your country in central america is a precise way to say yeah you have to make that claim from a facility across the border because joe now basically we have a an operation

where people, you just take the bus, turn yourself in, and you're good to go. There is simply no way this is a sustainable immigration policy, and anybody who tells you otherwise is completely, entirely irrational and is not thinking straight. All right, folks, I appreciate your... I know I was a little fired up, but this whole but I just feel like it's all going downhill so quick.

And I think it's the Democrats. They just don't care. The party of JFK is dead. It's over. This party of ask not what you can do for your country, even the Bill Clinton party, the era of big government is over. It's over. That stuff is over.

These people are all in, absolutely all in, on the destruction of the Constitutional Republic. And the Wall Street Journal has an interesting op-ed today. Be very careful, Dems. They tried this before with McGovern. Remember that? And he got annihilated by Richard Nixon, the worst candidate ever,

creator of the EPA, taking us off the gold standard. But be careful. This is not going to end well for you politically. I'm sure of it. All right. Thanks again, folks. Please subscribe to the show on iTunes. You can also subscribe to the video version of the show on YouTube,

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