The Dan Bongino Show - Was “Charlie” Spying on the Trump White House? (Ep 1100)

Episode Date: October 31, 2019

In this episode, I address the explosive new ties between the alleged “whistleblower” and key players in the plot to take down, and spy on, the Trump administration. I also address the latest in NY Times media bias.  News Picks:Is John Durham getting ready to unleash on Obama era officials?   The alleged “whistleblower” has some serious questions to answer.    Is the whistleblower tied to Alexandra Chalupa?   New poll shows the Democrats are in big trouble with their impeachment garbage.    Taxes aren’t the problem, spending is!   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 happy halloween folks unfortunately i have a frightening show for you today ridiculous horrible pun intended but not frightening in the halloween kind of way frightening in the deep state you're losing your country collapse of the constitutional republic kind of way, which is always worse than the wicked stepmother kind of Casper the ghost kind of frightening. You are not going to want to miss a second of today's show. I think we may be closing in on a key question we asked a long time ago on one of our most listened to shows ever.

Who's Charlie? Who's Chuck? Yes, I have not queued in, Producer Joe. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show, by the way. Producer Joe, let's bring you in. How are you today, fine sir? Well, in the honor of Halloween, Daniel, I want to say I know this show will not suck.

So I'm really glad to be here. That was one of your uh was that good it was most interesting openings ever we'll have to add that to the compendium of fascinating joe in your worst bram stoker's dracula voice ever very nice well done of all your imitations clearly the worst but well done anyway in a campy kind of Sylvester Stallone over the top kind of way. Good for you. Yeah, folks, we are loaded today. And Joe, I have not intentionally kept Joe and Paula

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Go check it out. All right, Joe, let's go. Folks, before I get to who Chuck, who Charlie is, which for those of you regular listeners to my show i'll just leave you in a little bit of suspense here because i just want to open up quickly with this impeachment fiasco farce disaster one of the biggest open questions in the spy gay thing to distill it down to one simple bulleted talking point is was the white house being spied on the trump white house not the campaign

was the trump white house being spied on by our own intelligence and law enforcement entities in the united states our federal law enforcement entities and if so was there a point man on it and if there was a point man who's charlie we'll get to that all right just quickly regarding this impeachment fiasco that's going on right now folks if you live in swing districts i said this yesterday and i'll say it again do not give these these rhino republicans or bad democrats i don't think they're going to get any republicans but well they may get a mosh but he's not a republican anymore anyway he's lost it so i don't't really care. Or these fake Democrats off the hook. They are trying to tell you, as I said to you yesterday, Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, other lead Democrats, this is not a vote for impeachment.

Max Rose, so-called moderate Democrat in New York. This guy's a liberal, a radical liberal like everyone else. Do not give these fake moderates a pass. What they are voting on today is an impeachment. They can call it an investigation, an inquiry, whatever they want. They're trying to have it both ways. No, we're voting for impeachment, but we're telling America it's not an impeachment so we can save these fake moderate Democrats

in Trump-leaning districts. Nope. Call their offices. Do what we do best. Activism. We can leave all the nasty, aggressive, violent stuff for the left.

What we do best and what we did in the Tea Party revolution, what we'll do again is we do activism. It is time to clean these people out and give them a one-way ticket

out of D.C. They vote for this today. They are on the hook for the fakest impeachment in American history for a non-crime they are trying to overturn an election do not under any circumstances let them off the hook it's important max rose all these utah democrats that got elected in republican districts don't

let them off the hook all right moving on to what i think is going to be one of the more important shows we've done in quite a long time and And for reference, hat tip, our audience archivist, Judy, who sent me a note a while ago. The Who is Charlie episodes in the past, I believe 1027, 1028, and 1060, where we referenced this conversation before. What am I talking about? Now, in light of the revelations yesterday, which I'll get to in a minute, that you've already heard somewhere, maybe on this show, about who the whistleblower is, there was big breaking news yesterday. The whistleblower's been outed by Paul Sperry of Real Clear Investigations as Eric Charmella. We'll get to that in a second. Well, if you listen to this show,

of course, that's already old news. You heard that two, three weeks ago, but that's okay. I don't, as I said, and I mean it, I'm not being coy here or silly. I don't really care who takes credit for this stuff. I mean it. I'm not kidding. I'm just kind of being, you know, I'm just kind of joking around a little bit. If Paulul sperry wanted to print it first that's fine uh but

we got that information a long time ago why does eric charmella who is allegedly the whistleblower according to paul sperry why does that matter and why am i emphasizing the charmella hat tip two seven niner who has always come through in the clutch well let's go to this memo first by senators chuck grasley and ron johnson written to the attorney general they had some concerns a little while ago, these two Republican senators, and they sent this memo to Attorney General Bill Barr. Now, the memo in the memo is a text exchange between Peter Stroke, FBI investigator in charge of the Spygate scandal, excuse me, and FBI lawyer Lisa Page,

who is also Stroke's girlfriend. They're having an affair. And Senator Grassley, who has a reputation for being concerned about federal law enforcement abuses, and Ron Johnson, who has been all over this case, they seem very concerned a while ago, this is back in April, about this specific exchange between Stroke and Page. And I want you to pay very close attention. You may say, what does this have to do

with outing the name of the whistleblower? Oh, don't go anywhere. Audience Ombudsman Joe has his hat on. We got it. So in the memo, they say, hey, listen, Attorney General Barr, we're really concerned about this exchange. Here's the exchange.

Peter Stroke texts Lisa Page. I'm talking with Bill. Do we want Joe to go with Evanina instead of Charlie for a variety of reasons? Page, hmm, I'm not sure. Would it be unusual to have, and it's blacked out, show up again? The name's blacked out. Maybe another agent from the team. team stroke or he's the CI guy. Some might think blank name redacted makes sense. He can assess if there's any other news or a different demeanor.

If Katie's husband is there, he can see if there are any people we can develop for potential relationship. Really? In the white house, Lisa Page. Should I ask Andy about it? Or Bill? Do you want to reach out to Andy?

I told him I'm sure we could ask you to make the swap if we thought it was smart. If not, until Monday to Bill, we can always discuss with him tomorrow. Let me translate that for you. Please do. Yeah. The lead investigator for the FBI investigating Donald Trump on the fake collusion charges, Peter Stroh,

is texting a lawyer at the FBI who works directly with the deputy director, Andy McCabe, who's been marshalling this case against Trump because he hates him. He's texting him about developing sources inside the White House. Sources. So the FBI is talking about developing sources to spy on the White House. Folks, this isn't a joke. These are real texts. Yeah, not good. And they're talking about sending

a CI guy, quote, and they're worried about Charlie or the outing of Charlie or sending Charlie back. And I've asked repeatedly, who is Charlie? Why are they so concerned about Charlie being outed? Katie's husband, by the way, is a what we believe to be a clear reference to Mike Pence's chief of staff at the time, whose wife Katie Katie, worked for Peter Stroh. So just to be clear, they're talking about leveraging a relationship they have in the FBI with an employee, Katie, whose husband works in Pence's White House, to develop sources in the White House. And they're also concerned about the potential outing of a source, the CI guy, about the potential outing of a source, the CI guy,

who we believe is this infamous Charlie. Now, I had always thought the CI guy was the counterintelligence guy. I'm starting to wonder if the CI guy is a confidential informant. In other words, not an FBI employee. Okay. We good? We're good, Dad. Yeah, we're good. Who's the spy in the White House?

Is Charlie the spy? And what the hell is the FBI doing working on spying on an active White House? Let's leave that one there for a moment. Let's go to Paul Sperry's terrific Real Clear Investigations piece. He does great work, by the way, and his piece will be in the show notes, dated yesterday. Folks, listen, you know, bombshell, whatever, explosive. Listen, adjectives are meaningless these days because everything's a bombshell. It really is. This was an explosive report. It'll be in the show notes today. Please sign up for my newsletter at Bongino.com and read this whole piece.

It is worth your time. This thing blew up last night in the Hannity Show. Paul Sperry, Real Clear Investigations. Headline, the Beltway's whistleblower Fuhrer obsesses over one name. This piece is essentially an outing of what Sperry believes to be the whistleblower. Again, I'm not being a jerk. I'm just saying you heard this is probably old news. Well, it's not old. If you listen to my show, it is old news for you. Yeah, it is. We've got pretty good sources here.

Go read Spy Game, my first book. You'll act like it was written yesterday. You'll be like, gosh, you wrote this three years ago? Yeah, we did. Inside the piece, there's a fascinating exchange that one of my other sources, the 279er, found really interesting from the Paul Sperry piece. Throw that up. My wife was kind enough to highlight this for me after it was sent over by our buddy. Quote from Paul Sperry's piece.

Quote from Paul Sperry's piece. Further, Charamella, and he has it here clearly. Let me say this for those who are on the audio file only. We highlighted the part where Paul Sperry literally puts in the piece, in parentheses, the pronunciation phonetically of Charamella's name, who he believes is the whistleblower. He says further, Charamella, pronounced Char-a-mel-a, left his National Security Council posting in the White House West Wing in mid-2017.

Again, he believes this is the whistleblower. Amid concerns about negative leaks to the media, he has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Leave that up for a sec, if you don't mind. Why would Paul Sperry, who has impeccable sources, has been all over Spygate from day one, has broke some tremendous news? Joe, have you seen this often? I said to Paula this morning when I kind of hinted at her where we may go with this. You haven't seen this yet.

Why would Paul Sperry, who never does this, matter of fact, I haven't seen this in the media outside of really ridiculously complicated names, why would he put the phonetic breakdown of Char Amela's name in there? Paul Sperry knows

something? Yeah, maybe emphasize something there, dude, you know? There you go joe very well done right guy that's joe always uh the the consciousness of the audience right here maybe he's trying to folks listen i i read i consume media all day conservative media liberal media to see where they're going with stuff it's not not unheard of. I don't want to be dramatic, but it's very rare to put a phonetic breakdown of someone's name

and the pronunciation of it in an article if it has no relevance. Yeah. Now, this is something I'm, again, this is not a pat myself on the back moment. Please don't take it that way. I just don't like to run with things. I prefer when I get stuff to not break it

and let other people verify it first. It's not important for me to do that. My income doesn't center on clicks or my website. It's not. My income revolves around me being right and you tuning in so that you're not wasting your time. We were cued into this a while ago by another person that there may be a relationship between Charamella and Charlie. Charlie, Charamella,

Charlie, Charlie, we need a little show tune. Charlie, kind of now, kind of wow. Okay. Always fill it in the gaps.

Producer Joe. Now, what's also fascinating. So I'm just asking as we always do, because we never, I'm not going to put a nail in that until I'm ready to put a nail. But is it OK to ask questions? I mean, I remember the liberal media asked questions about a fake dossier forever. Was Trump involved in Russian collusion, despite the fact that it was an obvious hoax?

Evidence is mounting that there may have been a concerted effort by the FBI and law enforcement community to spy on the Trump White House. And it's kind of interesting that a guy named Charamella, Charamella, Charamella is the whistleblower, according to Paul Sperry, on a case to get Trump impeached precisely when the inspector general and attorney general Barr, Senator Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson and others are asking why the White House was being spied on by a guy they refer to as Charlie, the CIA guy. Weird. Oh, boy. Weird. Crazy.

Head scratcher, Joe. crazy head scratcher, Joe. So the walls start closing in on Charlie Charamella and others involved in the massive, illicit, atrocious spying operation on a sitting U.S. president. And all of a sudden,

Charamella emerges a whistleblower and yet another hoax to impeach the president and all of a sudden Charamella emerges as a whistleblower and yet another hoax to impeach the president before all of this stuff comes out. Weird. Weird. Now it turns out Charamella

Charamella, who I had pronounced his name wrong too. I had said Ciamarella. Yeah, I remember. Charamella. That's right. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah me too me too what october 11th was that what that was when i did the show oh cool paula yeah thank you clarifying that now you know we can save audience archives judy skinner the work october 11th check that show out I want to point out another piece from Paul Sperry's Real Clear Investigation, another portion of the piece, excuse me, article.

Someone, one of my listeners doesn't like it when I say piece. This is interesting. From Paul Sperry's article, quote, and Charamella worked with the Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. Wow. Inviting her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues said. Isn't this crazy? The operative, Alexandra Chalupa, who is a central figure in both of my books, Spygate and Exonerated, a Ukrainian-American who supported Hillary Clinton, led an effort to link the Republican campaign to the Russian government. Here's a quote from an insider. Charamella knows her. He had her in the White House, said one former coworker who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter.

Charamella. Charamella is connected to Chalupa who we know alexandra chalupa worked at the dnc left the dnc to go collude with the ukrainian government we know this why because wiki leaks already leaked chalupa's emails and in chalupa's emails she talks about colluding with the Ukrainians. You know, in some limited circles, Joe, small circles, we call that a clue. We call that evidence. But you media idiots don't do clues because you have the IQs of a trickle-toed, seven-legged sloth. I don't think there is such a thing, but there's no such thing as investigative journalists anymore in the liberal ecosystem either. So it's a perfect analogy. Boom.

Chalupa's own emails show she was colluding with Ukrainians to destroy the Trump campaign. Did you miss that? No one's disputing the authenticity of Chalupa's emails. Who knows Charamella, who is obviously a friend of the woman marshalling a collusion effort with the Ukrainians, and now Charamella is suspected to be the whistleblower accusing who? The Democrats of colluding with Ukraine? No, Trump of an illicit deal with the Ukrainians. That doesn't exist. Let me see.

What's Charmella thinking? I've really got to get this guy impeached before they find out who Charlie is. Oh boy. And they find out that I'm friendly with Chalupa who was colluding with the Ukrainians to help Hillary and destroy Trump. So I got an idea. Let's make a whistleblower complaint. Brilliant!

Absolutely. Yeah, right. Listen, Eric, I, I, Charamella, I think you have an obligation right now. If you are not, in fact, the whistleblower and you have nothing to do with any of these leaks, then I believe you have an obligation right now to come out publicly and state so. Oh, isn't that turning the whole process on its head? What do you mean? You mean the process where Max Rose, fake moderate Democrat from New York,

the Staten Island area. He said yesterday, hey, I'm not voting for an impeachment. I'm just voting for an investigation. If President Trump is innocent, he should prove it. Works for me too. I'm cool with that. Fine.

You want to throw the Constitutional Republic flushes down the toilet bowl out the window in the presumption of innocence? Sure. Choromelis needs to come out too and say he's not the whistleblower. He wasn't working with Alexandra Chalupa ukrainian collusion we now know about he needs to come out and say that joe fair enough right fair enough he needs to prove his innocence right fair enough fair enough

new rules pal new rules oh there's another suspicious little connection and forgive me for redoing some of this because now that we have some suspicions about who charlie might be forgive me for redoing charamella and showing you his connections but it's important hat tip by uh the way this is seamus bruner who i had uh hat tip last time when i showed this the first time on Twitter. This is a fascinating little invite to a Victor Pinchuk event. Who's Victor Pinchuk? Oh yeah, that's right. It's a $25 million donor to the Clinton Foundation. Oh yeah, Ukrainian Pinchuk. And he had this event he paid for. And at that event, this again, hat tip Seamus Bruner here for all the highlights. This is an interesting invitation from a Ukrainian donor who donates $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, has very heavy ties to the Clinton Foundation.

And at this meeting he sponsors, it's funny because this lady shows up, this Ukrainian parliamentarian, Olga Bilkova, who really can't stand Trump. And who's she meeting with? Oh, Eric Charamella. That's crazy. And she's also meeting with who? Oh, that's right. David Kramer of the McCain Institute who passed the dossier to the FBI and leaked it to the media. That's the John McCain Institute, not the Joe McCain Institute. Wow. Isn't that crazy? Crazy. Weird. Yeah. Weird. How every time the inspector general and attorney general Barr, Horowitz and others close in

on the biggest political spying scandal of our time in conjunction with the Ukrainians and Russians working with Democrats and rhinos who hated Trump, every time we close in, a magical whistleblower or a dossier appears accusing Trump of doing the same thing. Falsely. Of course, if you're listening to this show again, this is all.

This kind of old news, we're tying up for you. Folks, share this to everyone because you will not get any of this in the mainstream media. They are fundamentally uncurious, intentionally, about ever getting to the bottom of what happened. That's what this impeachment farce is about today. Look, squirrel.

So Charamella, Charamella, of what happened. That's what this impeachment farce is about today. Look, squirrel. So Charamella, Charamella, trying to figure out who Charlie is spying on the White House. We got this guy, Charamella, who's now allegedly the whistleblower, according to Paul Sperry, who is a CIA employee, leaking sensitive

information, apparently, if he is the whistleblower, that matches up with the ukrainian embassies uh excuse me it matches up with uh people from our ukrainian embassies exact language bill taylor and i right as we're starting to get to the bottom of this deep conspiracy it's not a theory it happened we have chalupa's emails to work with ukrainians take out trump they accuse trump of an illicit deal with with ukrainians take out trump they accuse trump of an illicit deal with the ukrainians that never happened and these suckers these pathetic

jokes of human beings these media people are missing the greatest spy story for idiots in human history now just in case you think chalupa working with the Ukrainians after leaving the DNC to go attack Paul Manafort in the Trump campaign, just in case you think that was some like run of the mill, no big deal kind of thing, I want you to check out this Fox News piece and a little snippet from there to show you just how serious what Chalupa did, working and colluding with Ukrainians to destroy Trump. And knowing the alleged whistleblower, here's a piece by Fox News,

pro-Trump super PAC files, FEC complaint against DNC over Ukraine outreach. Andrew Kelper, Fox News. Let's dig into the body of that piece where there's a fascinating little snippet there. Quote, the Democratic National Committee has been hit with an FEC, Federal Election Commission, complaint that accuses a former DNC contractor of acting improperly to gather information on Paul Manafort and Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Gee, who could that be? The complaint filed by the pro-Trump committee to defend the president hinges

on the work of Alexandra Chalupa, a contractor hired by the DNC during the 2016 election. The DNC, the complaint alleges tasked Chalupa with obtaining incriminating or derogatory information about Donald Trump and Paul Manafort. Is that the same Chalupa who White House insiders say is buddies with Charamella, who's now alleged to be the whistleblower, who also met with Ukrainian parliamentarians at a Clinton Foundation donor-sponsored event?

Is that the same Charamella at the event where the same Ukrainian parliamentarian exchanging negative information about the Trump team met with David Kramer from the McCain Institute, who we now know leaked the dossier to the media and also had McCain push it to the FBI. Is that the same Charamella who suspiciously was invited to a white house event with key Italian politicians right around the time, a key figure in the spy gate case, Joseph is alleged to have disappeared in Italy.

I'm just asking questions, folks. There's nobody else on the liberal side. Sarah Carter, John Solomon, Paul Sperry, Jeff Carlson, Chuck Ross, Lee Smith and others are asking the real questions. And I deeply feel sorry for you to the liberals out there if you missed it. You only missed the biggest political scandal in American history while you're focusing on a fake impeachment based on a fake whistleblower who clearly, and let me tie this up here, and don't forget the takeaway here. Who is Charlie?

Is Charamella Charlie? Because if Charamella is Charlie, I'm open to a discussion either way. But if the alleged whistleblower, who now works with the CIA, worked with them in the past and was on the National Security Council, was spying on the White House and the FBI knew about it, ladies and gentlemen, the biggest scandal in American history just turned into a hydrogen bomb of scandals. a hydrogen bomb of scandals. None of those questions will be answered by the media.

None. But they'll be answered here. And it would be fascinating how a key figure, apparently Charamella in this whole thing, was the foundational guy allegedly behind a whistleblower campaign about a fake transcript. Because the real transcript says nothing that the whistleblower says it says. In an effort to impeach the president on a vote they're taking now,

an impeachment resolution, to make this all go away. Unbelievable. I mean, all right. I want to get to some other stuff because I could really, I could do a whole show on that. How, how you are the wall being pulled over your eyes by the fake news media people while we're living through this is just are there anyone is there anyone out there with even a mild sense of dignity is there anyone out there with with a skeletal structure and a spine to go up to their editor and say hey you know i thought this guy bongino and lee smith and carl Ross and Carter and Solomon, I thought they were all crazy. But I've got to tell you, this sounds a little weird. This Charamella guy, a relatively low level National Security Council guys, getting invited to White House dinners with key Italians.

He's working with Ukrainian people, working with Ukrainians to impact Trump. He shows up as the alleged whistleblower. They're talking about a guy named Charlie spying on the White House. The FBI is concerned he may get outed. I don't know, man. This is a little weird. Nah, you won't get it. All right, folks.

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All right. Getting back to the serious content of the show here. So, folks, listen, we've been told all week because just expect a line, a cornucopia, a litany of new anti-Trump fake whistleblowers to come forward with information that doesn't comport with the call with Ukraine. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the transcript I explained to you on yesterday's show. I used sources how the whistleblower, fake whistleblower, had already indicated in their

own report that the transcript is word for word. Bottom line, the call with the Ukrainian president had nothing what the Democrats are saying they're impeaching the president for. There was no illicit deal. None of it's in there. It's not in the transcript. And the whistleblower himself has already indicated

that it is word for word standard practice to produce that. We have the transcript. Case is closed. Now, it's not closed by the anti-Trump media or the Democrats who need to get this guy out of office before Charamella and their deep state buddies are exposed for their horrible activities involving the targeting of the Trump campaign and the Trump presidency. Having said that, they produced this military colonel. Again, I'm not knocking the man's service. I thank him for his service to the country. And I sincerely mean that it's not a personal gripe against this Colonel Vindman,

but I find it interesting how, you know, we're getting ready to nullify 63 million American voters who voted for president Trump. The Democrats are getting ready to try to remove him from office because they don't like your electoral outcome. And their new line, Joe, is that you can't criticize or even call out Colonel Vindman on what apparently are discrepancies in what he's saying to Congress and reality. You can't. So hat tip to a listener who sent this to me. Here is a clip of a couple of years ago of Adam Schiff, the sleazeball lying U.S. congressman without an ounce of integrity,

talking about a decorated U.S. military officer. Remember, we're not allowed to, Joe, according to Democrats, you can't criticize Colonel Vindman. He's in the military. That's right, yeah. Under any circumstance, despite what he's saying,

having very little evidence of being true. Right. You can't criticize him at all well that's interesting because adam schiff had a different take when it came to discussing lieutenant general mike flynn a known american patriot and a military officer here's sleazeball adam schiff absolutely violating the schiff rule that you can't criticize military people check this out the chances he has nothing to add well i think the bigger risk than chances he has nothing to add well I think the bigger risk than that he has nothing to add because he clearly could

add in terms of what he knows is can he be believed can he be trusted and he's done enough said enough where he's impeached a lot of his own credibility so you would need I think as a special counsel to be able to corroborate anything he might say as a cooperative. Or he might need to produce documentation or something that corroborates. Wait, wait, wait. He impeached his credit. Mike Flynn? I thought we're not allowed to do that. That's what we were told. Were we not? Sleazeball Adam Schiff, known documented liar and human sleazeball Adam Schiff known documented liar and human sleaze a liar who has

insisted for what three years now he has evidence of the collusion hoax being real who's never produced it you mean that guy who's telling us now you can't criticize Colonel Vindman criticizing military personnel is completely out of bounds

he just did it by the way I could play those all day criticisms of Mike Flynn Military personnel is completely out of bounds. He just did it. By the way, I could play those all day. Criticisms of Mike Flynn. Yeah. Criticisms of Tulsi Gabbard, another military officer who they criticized. Hillary Clinton actually accused her of being a Russian asset. So let's just throw that rule out the window, please.

You can respect the man. You can hold two simultaneous thoughts at the same time. You can respect the man's service hold two simultaneous thoughts absolutely you can respect the man's service to the country which i do it's not some virtue signaling i mean it takes a lot to go into combat a lot takes a lot out of a man and you can simultaneously say well does the man's information comport with reality it doesn. We have the transcript. Now, a couple other pieces of information on Colonel Vindman's testimony about the Ukraine call, we've already seen. He says he

was concerned about it. Okay, good. Resign and run for office. You're allowed to be concerned. It doesn't mean there's a crime, no less than impeachable crime. Apparently, some leaks I'm getting, because remember, the only leaks we're getting from Vindman's testimony up on Capitol Hill

are from the Democrats. Well, there's some new stuff coming out, Joe. And one of the things I'm hearing is that Colonel Vindman testified up on Capitol Hill. And we'll see, because Adam Schiff doesn't have the nerve to release the actual transcript of what Vindman said. But I'm hearing Vindman testified that the transcript was accurate.

Wait, wait, wait. I thought we heard a few days ago that Vindman was going to testify that the transcript of the call was inaccurate. And Joe, there's a super secret transcript with an illicit deal between Trump and the Ukrainian president. Get ready for it. Here it comes.

That's not what I'm hearing. I'm hearing Vindman said the opposite. I'm also hearing they gave him minutes, not seconds, but a couple minutes to scour the transcript he claimed was accurate from what I'm hearing to find the illicit deal between Trump and the Ukrainians

about Hunter Biden and military aid. Remember that? And from what I'm hearing from my sources, Joe, he couldn't find it in the transcript. I thought he memorized the transcript. Wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on. We were just told by media lunatics and Democrat activists and full-time

anti-constonstitutional Republic liberals and anti-free speech, tyrannical spying liberals that Colonel Vindman had this photographic memory where he remembered the transcript and it was different than the transcript we've all seen. So why would he need to scour the transcript for upwards of five minutes to find the alleged deal Trump made with the Ukrainians. If it was all up in his head. Why would he need to scour the transcript? I thought it was up here. Frontal cortex. Yeah. Maybe the medulla oblongata.

Well, no. Maybe even the decussation of the pyramids for you. Biology majors who focus on human anatomy. Going back to my neuropsychology. The decussation of the pyramids. That always sounded like the coolest term ever. You really know what you're talking about. I have no clue what you're talking about.

Nobody else does either. I thought he knew. I thought he knew. I thought he knew. The colonel had this photographic memory of a transcript that was different from the transcript the media said isn't real. But now we find out Vindman says it's real, that the whistleblower says it's the real transcript. That the whistleblower says it's the real transcript. And that Vindman was given five minutes or more to scour the transcript they said was real for a deal he said existed and Trump should be impeached over.

And he couldn't find it. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Don't question the military ever. Ever. Except if you think you can hammer Donald Trump. Then question the military. By the way, votes going on right now for the impeachment.

Give you some updates on that. I'm also hearing some other key things about Colonel Vindman. Can't question military guys. I'm hearing he missed the briefing in May before the call with Zelensky that by the way it was the National Security Council's idea to do fascinating how they're alleging in this impeachment fiasco that Trump tried to extort the Ukrainians and he wanted to make this call to get information on Hunter Biden

and yet the call wasn't even his idea the National Security Council where Charamella worked, wanted him to make that call to Ukraine where Charamella had suspicious contacts with Chalupa, who was working with Ukrainians to collude, to impact the Trump campaign and destroy him. Wow. Why would the national security council push him?

Hey, you really need to make this call to Ukraine, which we're going to be listening in on. Stinks like kind of a setup, right? Weird how that keeps happening. Yeah, this is weird. So I'm hearing Vindman skipped out on a briefing in May about Ukraine where they were setting up the parameters

for a potential call with Zelensky. Wow, that's kind of interesting. Maybe him not being there, he might have missed the whole thing where no deal was discussed. Kind of doesn't fit the narrative, right? You think you'd want to attend that meeting if you were aware of some extortion plot, right?

Why just skip it? Can't question the military. God forbid. it. Can't question the military. God forbid. Finally, there's still no deal has surfaced anywhere credibly amongst any source. All of these people keep coming forward to talk about, well, like Vindman said, I believe president Trump hinted at a deal because he's the president united states and there's a power asymmetry um okay okay so let me get this straight it's an extortion plot with the ukrainians that wasn't even president trump's idea the national security council with charamella and vinman worked it was their idea.

Where he's trying to extort the Ukrainians, but the Ukrainians don't know they're being extorted because they've already said there was no pressure to do anything. Where there is no evidence of the extortion in the transcript of the call, no information has since surfaced about this extortion plot. And the

colonel, you can't question him, is saying, no, no, he didn't really have to extort him. Just the idea that the president, who's very powerful, calls you, that's evidence of extortion in and of itself. Oh, man. Joe, let me ask you a question. I'm not messing with you.

I know you're a step ahead of me, but play dumb for a minute. Try to be a liberal. I know it's hard because you've got a brain, but play dumb for a second. Yeah. If you're going to extort something, don't you think you should tell them about the extortion? I'm just asking. I'm just putting that out there.

Maybe? One other question. Question two. Listen, I know I've got you puzzled and frazzled here. Question two. Question two. When the President of the United States talks to someone, because now Vindman's evidence is there's a power asymmetry.

Is there anyone, if you were to gauge power politically, anyone in the world more powerful than the U.S. president? I'm just checking. No, Dan. No. Okay. No, thank you. Okay. Take the dunce cap off and you can go back to thinking like, I don't want you to lose any more IQ points.

You are killing me, dude. Pretty much common sense, right? Yeah. thinking like and i don't want you to lose any more iq points you're killing me dude pretty much common sense right yeah so the president of the united states can never talk to a foreign leader again because everything's extortion because the president's more powerful than him folks this is they're impeaching the president over oh good heavens man you get what i'm saying right joe like sure sure that's his evidence the The president's really powerful, Joe. Yeah. And any time, any time he talks to a foreign leader, it's implied extortion,

despite the fact that nobody knows they're being extorted. Yeah, I'm right. Yeah. Nice work. Whatever you guys say. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. All right.

This is it. I've had it. Here we go. It didn't work. I know. I mean, I think everyone listening to my show is. Yeah. All right. Let me get to this last read because I've had it. Here we go. It didn't work. I mean, I think everyone listening to my show is. Yeah. All right.

Let me get to this last read because I've got, I got, wait, I do have great work by the media coming up at the New York times. I know you're like, why the New York? Yes. I know, you know, and I Paul, the New York times get the Pulitzer committee ready you're gonna be stunned this is some crack investigative work coming up all right today's show brought to you by bravo company as i said bravo company if you are in the market for one of the finest the finest

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You can see I wear them a lot. So shockingly, we have evidence now of new york times doing some fine investigative journalism staggeringly good investigative journalism folks pick me up get the pulitzer prize ready apologize i don't know how i'm gonna care so yesterday a photo surfaced uh that the white house had taken from the Daily Wire and put out on their Twitter feed that Trump put out. Here it is, folks. It's a photo of President Trump. Of course, the Daily Wire put this photo up, putting a medal around the neck of the dog, Conan the dog that famously tracked down cockroach Baghdadi

in a cave Joe the crack journalist the crack journalist at the New York Times two of them get ready buddy Joe get ready are you sitting down grab the side of the chair so you don't fall off

the crack journalist at the New York Times we can see by this piece. Figure it out, Joe, that it's a fake. It's Photoshop. Tough one there. Neeraj Choksi and Karen Drake, two New York Times journalists. Headline,

Trump tweets, faked photo of hero dog getting a medal. I could see it. Yeah. Unbelievable. Crack job. Crack job.

So. Very. You. Yeah. Joe. The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro's operation over there. Put the. It's.

You. You didn't know this was photoshop you think the president put a metal folks by the way look at the photo again when you see it on on twitter or elsewhere the photo has a paw print where the metal is you you needed two journalists you can't see it on this but you see it on the daily wire photo you needed two journalists. You can't see it on this, but you see it on the Daily Wire photo. You needed two journalists, fake journalists, to figure out this was a fake? It was a joke.

So just to be clear, the New York Times, the last group of lunatics in the entire cosmos to still be holding on to the collusion hoax, who are uncurious about Charamella, Charlie spying on the White House, working with Ukrainians and Chalupa to spy on Trump, and the fact that Charamella may be the whistleblower trying to do the look squirrel thing? None of that matters. let's investigate if a photo of a dog that was an obvious joke was photoshopped this is real folks and i'm proud to tell you that social media absolutely annihilated every moron on the left annihilated i mean the ratios on twitter where people

comment rather than retweet it meaning your tweet was that bad that people are just piling on you the ratios were like from the phantom zone they were that bad okay okay enough on oh my goodness really it's just the kind of stuff you could just this is the state of journalism you have to use the dreaded air quotes every time because there is no more journalism all right moving on because there's a lot of stuff i need to get to you know there's something going on behind the scenes with twitter on a very serious note the trump team put out a statement yesterday uh about it this is from brad parscale trump's digital manager operation uh quote trump campaign statement on twitter's decision to ban political ads twitter which banned uh me a long time ago from running ads never explained why but

whatever uh cost themselves a lot of money by the way trump team put out this statement again twitter banned political ads i want to tell you what's going on here behind the scenes and why trump put out this statement he's always a step ahead of these people. Quote, Twitter just walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential revenue, a very dumb decision for their stockholders. Will Twitter also be stopping ads from biased liberal media outlets who will now run unchecked as they buy obvious political content meant to attack Republicans? This is yet another attempt to silence conservatives since Twitter knows President Trump is the

most sophisticated online program ever known. What's really going on here? Why is the Trump team and Brad Parscale upset about Twitter banning political ads? Folks, here's what I'm getting from people. This really isn't about Twitter.

Yeah, they're not happy they banned political ads. Why? Trump has raised a fortune, historic amounts of money for early re-election campaign. They could probably run ads from now until election day and not even make a dent in their finances. That's how much money the Trump re-election campaign has. Brad Parscale has shown himself to be a fine digital operator in that space and targeting

voters. Twitter probably would have helped him a little bit, but I don't really think this was about Twitter. But what was it about? Twitter's the one banning political ads. Folks, have you noticed AOC and others up at that Mark Zuckerberg? Mark Zuckerberg, he didn't work for Twitter. He works for Facebook.

Oh, yeah, he does. Did you notice when he appeared up on Capitol Hill? What was it, last week? AOC and the other radical leftist communists melted down on him, Ayanna Pressley and others. Yeah. Why are you not fact-checking political ads?

You're going to let the lies keep running? Joe, are you putting two and two together here? Folks, Jack Dorsey and twitter are all about putting the squeeze now on facebook hey look at what we did we banned political ads because ladies and gentlemen although twitter is probably not going to change a lot of minds in the election facebook has far more viewers than twitter and Facebook has more sophisticated targeting. The Democrats are furious that Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have refused to do anything about political ads.

All right. Which I think is the right move. Let the voters decide who's more honest. I thought we believed in free speech. No, no, we do, not the liberals. They don't believe in free speech. AOC and them, these are political tyrants. They don't believe in free speech no no we do not the liberals they don't believe in free speech AOC and them these are political tyrants they don't believe in free speech at all

this move by Twitter Joe is a wink and a nod to the Congress that they have their backs when they push Facebook to ban political ads too which will assuredly hurt the Trump campaign big time they have the most sophisticated digital operation in American political history.

And they are planning on using Facebook to do what every other politician is fully capable of doing. Targeting voters to get out to vote. Perfectly appropriate use of digital tools to electioneer. The Democrats are terrified of the Trump digital operation. And Twitter is virtue signaling to Congress that, look, we're not with them. Matter of fact, you should probably stop them from getting money being there that our competitors do. Maybe you should ban political ads on social media. That's what my sources are telling me.

That's what this is really about. And that's why the Trump team is furious. The anti-free speech, radical, liberal, communist tyrants don't want Trump to be able to talk on social media at all, especially Facebook, where the Trump team has the best operation going. All right, folks,

I've got some more video for you tomorrow. Don't miss tomorrow's show. I'm going to have tomorrow, Joe's going to be here this week, and you're a racist segment. Yes, of course,

Democrats, when they are devoid of arguments, which is pretty much every waking moment of their lives, call you a racist. That tip our good friend Tom Marr, who has since passed.

So we're going to have an interesting segment tomorrow of prominent Democrat figures, again, making up charges of white supremacy and Michelle Obama, who thinks white people are running away from her.

Not my experience in the Secret Service where white, Hispanic, black, Asian people and anyone else was running towards Michelle Obama because they loved her so much. I don't know where she got that from, but whatevs.

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