DAN BONGINO AT HOROWITZ'S RESTORATION WEEKEND
Obama, Mueller and the biggest scam
in American history
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Editor's note: Below are the video and transcript of remarks
given by Dan Bongino at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's
2018 Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 15th-18th at the
Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.
Dan Bongino from
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Vimeo.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center - Restoration Weekend
November 15-18, 2018
Transcript:
Some of you may have seen me
on Fox this morning, and in fact one of the ladies I was just talking
to said well, where did you do that from? I said, I just live about 20
miles north, I have a studio in my house. It's just a TV in the
background. It's a TV, it's actually a video of what we took down in
Palm Beach, we're just watching a movie in the background. It's in my
office. If you listen real close on Fox sometimes for hits you'll hear
some like gargling in the background, that's usually my 6 year old
running around outside. No, I'm serious. Yeah, that's my office and
it's a really small office. I don't live like liberals in a 5,000
square foot mansion. So once in a blue moon you can hear my kids
running around. So that happened. I made it down here. Sorry I didn't
tell everybody I was here. When we went to the front desk I got caught
up in a conversation with Sebastian Gorka and Louie Gohmert and we're
all Chatty Cathies so that just went on forever, I forgot to tell
everyone that I actually showed up. So I am here, we made it, it's
great. Thanks to everyone who've already bought the book in advance, I
really appreciate it.
That's what I want to talk about today,
folks, because it's been about a year and a half now of my life. I've
written four books but this one by far was the most tedious to put
together. They had two co-authors actually help me out. And the reason
I wrote the book, this whole spine scandal, this debacle, this
atrocious disgrace of a scandal that happened to our president. You
know how many, are there a lot of cops, federal agents in the room?
Anyone have experience in law enforcement? Yeah, a couple raised their
hand. If I'm wrong, call me out on this, but when I was a cop and then a
Secret Service agent if you have even an ounce of empathy for human
beings, which most of you in this room have more than an ounce, you have
a whole lot, you'll arrest a lot of bad people for a lot of really bad
things.
But one of the things that impacted me so deeply in
my life, I'm not going to say the guy's name for obvious reasons, let's
call him john Doe. We hit a door at about 6:00 on the morning to arrest
this guy on a credit card fraud scheme, and it was ugly. I mean it had
been hundreds of thousands of dollars. When you're a federal agent you
don't get to arrest people for like $5.00 petty crimes or anything like
that, they'll throw you right out of there. It was a serious crime.
We arrested the guy and I remember after working on this case for 6
months it was a sense of accomplishment, tempered immediately by this
awful feeling in my gut. It's 7:00 in the morning, you arrest him and
you don't anticipate the human side of it. But what happened, the guy's
young kids ran out. That's their dad. He actually wasn't the worst
guy in the world, he was actually a good father to his kids. And
they're watching their father in handcuffs, and the wife is crying.
Their life is over.
Now granted, the guy was a bad guy, don't
get me wrong. But again, we're all human beings and I've got to tell
you that I mean it almost scarred me for the rest of my time. I kept
thinking to myself, I couldn't get that image out of my head. What
bothers me about that and how that ties to this spy gate thing and why
this whole thing has consumed the last year and a half of my life, is
that guy was an actual bad guy. Imagine if you find out, you're the
President of the United States, all you did was win an election and you
find out the massive machinery of the Federal government with the
ability to slap bracelets on you in the form of handcuffs, take your
life and your freedom was turned against you? Folks, this happened.
This is the biggest scandal of our generation. There's no close
second. This makes Watergate look like Romper Room.
Now I
only have about 20 minutes or so to get through this, this is usually
about a 45‑minute speech, I just gave it in California. But I promise
you there wasn't one person falling asleep the entire time. I'm going
to walk you through what happened. It's all in the book, by the way, in
great detail. And what we did in the book, if you choose to buy it,
and that's totally up to you, I'm happy to sign it and I won't leave
until I sign every one of them, but read the footnotes. We deliberately
did not use footnotes from right-leaning resources. I used CNN, the
Washington Post, the New York Times because anyone who tells you oh,
this didn't happen, just go to the footnotes and say, did you read this
article? It happened, folks. The President of the United States had
the intelligence community and the law enforcement community of the
United States, at the highest levels, weaponized against him.
Now, I like to break it down simply as to how they did this. They had
Plan A, Plan B and Plan C, and the joke of the whole thing, and when I
say joke I don't mean funny, I mean a tragic joke, is it wasn't known as
Plan A, Plan B and Plan C; you know why? They thought Plan A was just
fine, so it was just the plan. When Plan A failed they had to move on
to Plan B and then Plan C was just the cleanup operation. Here's how
this whole thing starts against Donald Trump.
During the
election the Obama administration, which had done whatever it wants
because the media's lost in this country, folks. There's no media,
forget it, that's dead and buried. The media is done, they don't do
journalism anymore, it's activism, nothing more, right? The Obama
administration had grown comfortable with the idea of weaponizing
government against their political enemies, and it happened over and
over again. We had the IRS scandal, we had the AP phone records
scandal, the Jim Rosen, Fox News scandal. And I ask you this, what
happened to any of the people involved? Anyone? Yeah, the answer is
nothing. I have to do zeros like this now, because I used to do zeros
like this but I found out through the liberal media that somehow this
means like a white power symbol now or something. I thought it meant
okay or zero, but the media says, no, I'm serious, like these idiots in
the media will tell you, so now I do zeros like that because I'm like
afraid of some media idiot, these people are crazy.
The Obama
administration had gotten completely comfortable with the idea of
abusing government for their political means. So what happens? This
plan gets hatched, and I'm going to be candid with you; where exactly
it's hatched nobody is exactly sure to this day. As a matter of fact,
if you're familiar with my commentary on Fox, I say often one of the
great mysteries of this case is what's Paragraph 1. Paragraph 1, what
do I mean by that? When I was a Federal Agent, when you arrest someone
you have to do what's calls an MR, a memorandum report. Paragraph 1 of
that MR is always how the case started. I got a call from Jane Doe,
bank fraud investigator, said this credit card number was stolen on
April 14, 2015. I made a few calls and the next thing you know it's an
80-page report about this massive scheme. Paragraph 1 though always
lays it out, always. Do you know to this day we still have no idea what
Paragraph 1 was—why they started to spy on the Trump team? I get it,
it was for political, I get that. But at some point somebody, you have
to understand folks, how to put down on paper a semi-legitimate reason
to start the most massive spying operation in a political campaign in
U.S. history. Do you know nobody to this day will tell you what that
is? I know what it is.
The first plan they do to hit the
Trump team, folks, is they learn to manipulate things about queries in
the NSA database. The NSA has a database of a whole boatload of
information; meta data, tax, that kind of stuff. How it works is too
complicated in the time I have, but what you can do is you can query
that NSA system and you can get a whole lot of information. But what
happens? This is Plan A, this is how they're going to get the
information. I hope that if you’re not following, please stop me
because this is important. The Obama administration figures out that
through unmasking, in other words wiretapping people, pretending
they’re targeting foreigners, and then querying information in this
database, that they can get all the political opposition research in the
world that they need against the Trump team. It's beautiful, no one's
going to call them out, the media's on their side, right?
But
there's a good guy in this, there's a white hat, somebody in the
government sniffs this thing out. That's why I tell you, this wasn't
Plan A, this was the plan. They were going to unmask people, wiretap
people and they were going to query this NSA database and get all the
information they needed about the Trump team. But somebody smells a
problem, and he's not having it, and he's the white hat, he's the good
guy in this story, and it's Mike Rogers of the NSA.
Mike
Rogers of the NSA senses that there's something wrong about
these queries. In other words, who's tapping into the database here and
making political queries? Now folks, some of you, I don't know your
politics, I assume most of you are conservative, libertarian or
Republican, but that's fine either way. If you doubt any of what I'm
telling you, just Google the FISA Intelligence Surveillance Court, their
report about queries. Because Mike Rogers goes to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court and says, Houston, we got a problem.
These queries are supposed to follow very specific guidelines about
terrorism and all these metrics, you can't just spy on Americans in the
database. The FISA court looks into it, comes back with a report that
was released in March 2017, ladies and gentlemen, that is devastating.
If you haven't read it, you are doing yourself a great disservice.
Page 80 specifically is horrifying. Apparently the NSA database was
being queried by private contractors working with the FBI, these were
not even government officials. People within the government were using
private contractors to query information they had no judicial or legal
authority whatsoever to look at.
Rogers smells a rat. People
panic in the government. Now, conveniently what happens right after
the election? I'm going to put these pieces together and things will
start to make sense. Donald Trump's elected, he's the President-Elect,
right? Ten days after the election, Rogers, who knows this has been
going on the whole time—these unmaskings—the tapping of the Trump
team. They tapped Trump Tower. Now does it make sense? He got the
wording wrong? He didn't understand exactly how it worked but the idea
was not wrong. Donald Trump's not stupid, trust me. The guy got
elected president, earned a billion dollars. By the way, I love how
these journalists criticize him. Sure, the guy's making $25,000.00 a
year writing click bait pieces for buzz feed, Donald Trump's an idiot.
Hard pass, brother. Well, the guy just won the presidency. The guy
runs for office the first time and he becomes the president, but wait,
yeah, let me listen to Joey Bagadonas at buzz feed, you're right, you
got this.
It's like so about 10 days after the election of
Donald Trump, someone goes up to visit Donald Trump in Trump Tower. Who
visits him? Mike Rogers. But Rogers doesn't tell anyone, this is
going to trip you out totally. He doesn't tell anybody in the White
House he's going up there. He visits Trump in Trump Tower, conveniently
10 days after the election, which from my experience in the Secret
Service is just enough time for them to go up to Trump Tower, WHCA, the
White House Communication Agency for the President-Elect and set up a
SCIF where they can talk privately, Sensitive Compartmentalized
Information Facility. In other words a place where no one can listen
in. Rogers gives it about 10 days, goes up there, has this big meeting
with Donald Trump, and what happens the very next day? Donald Trump
evacuates Trump Tower and goes to Bedminster, New Jersey to never return
for another meeting. You think that was a cawinky-dink? Like he did
that by accident? Oh, let's just go up to Bedminster, I've got nothing
else to do.
Now, again this is all in the book in intricate
detail. It's the greatest spy story ever told except for the fact that
it actually happened, and it happened against you. Rogers has this
meeting, Trump evacuates Trump Tower. The very next day the Obama
administration comes out and calls for somebody to be fired; who's that
somebody? Mike Rogers. And they start blaming it on things like drone
strikes and other stuff; like really? Could you be any more obvious?
The Obama administration knows Rogers is the good guy and fills Trump in
on this entire debacle. He probably goes up there and says brother,
they're spyin' on you, like right now. He doesn't know, but now he
does. So he leaves.
All of a sudden people start resigning from the Federal government
after that. You know who also resigns? Bob Hannigan. Now, who's Bob
Hannigan? Bob Hannigan is the head of the GCHQ, which is the British
NSA. But why do you think the head of the British NSA would resign
right after that Rogers meeting, right after Trump finds out about this
massive spying operation? I'm going to tell you why right now, I'm not
taking a selfie of you, I'm not taking a selfie of myself, I'm going to
read to you a headline. This is from CNN, see it right there, I didn't
photoshop this. April 14th, 2017, remember who Bob Hannigan is, he's the
head of the British NSA, British Intelligence and passed Trump
associates' communications with Russians onto U.S. counterparts. You
think I'm making this up? That's CNN, I didn't write it. They wrote
that. So not only is the United States government in Plan A,
weaponizing its intelligence community to listen in and computer search
the Trump team to hurt them during the campaign for political opo,
they're working with the British and the Australians to pass information
about the Trump team onto the Obama administration. Don't take it from
me, take it from CNN.
They find out about this. Now, this
thing breaks down about halfway through it. They move on to Plan B.
Sorry, there's a lot more to Plan A, but in the interest of time I want
to get through this because the cleanup operation is important. They
move on to Plan B; what's Plan B? They realize Rogers is onto them.
They're like hey folks, we better ease up on the unmasking and the
tapping into the database, people are getting caught, this is probably
not good, we're leaving a massive paper trail, and what if we lose,
right? They move on to Plan B. Plan B's a cross fire hurricane. They
say well, listen, if we can't spy on them illegally let's just spy on
them legally. We have this beautiful thing called the FISA Court where
we can walk into the FISA Court, we can get a warrant on somebody and
when you get a warrant on somebody in the Trump team they have this
beautiful thing for the Obama administration called the two hop rule.
Well, it's for everyone, it's for Obama.
Meaning, if I spy on
you, and you're a member of the Trump team, I can hop to everybody you
emailed and then everybody they emailed. So basically all I need to do
is get a FISA warrant on the guy cleaning the floors in Trump Tower, and
I've got everyone. Because if he emailed his boss and his boss emailed
Don, Jr., I get everybody. Beautiful, right? Not really. Because
they were stupid. They were dumb, and they screwed up. The problem
with the FISA Court, unlike the unmaskings and the tapping into the
database is they had to produce actual evidence in front of a judge.
There was a judge in a FISA Court that needed evidence that the Trump
team was working on behalf of a foreign power, but critically doing it
in violation of at least one U.S. law. Folks, they had nothing. They
had zero. Do you understand that they, to this day, have absolutely
zero. Zero. Remember, don't do it one hand, that's a big mistake.
Media people, you'll be a white power person after that. You always do
it that way. They had zero evidence at all, and you think it's funny,
I'm only half kidding, that's how worried I am about the media, they're
so crazy these days, right? They had nothing on collusion, nothing,
zero.
So what does the FBI and the State Department and the
DOJ do? They say well, we don't really have any evidence, let's just
make it up. We've got this guy we worked with in the past, this guy
Christopher Steele. Now I'm going to do something, I'm not taking a
selfie, again I'm not taking a picture of you, don't you worry. I'm
going to read you another headline, you need to write this down because
this one's going to blow your mind. Any of you read the dossier? You
haven't, right? Not many people have. You should. If you haven't read
the dossier, don't you worry, because the dossier was already written
back on April 17th of 2007. You go: what do you mean, I don't get it.
You mean 2017, right? No, no, no, no, no, I didn't get that wrong.
It's written right here in the Wall Street Journal, on April 17,
2007. Who's the author of this critical Wall Street Journal piece?
Glen Simpson and Mary Jacobi, his wife. Glen Simpson, the purveyor of
Fusion GPS. The article is called,
How Lobbyists Help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington.
Folks, I dare you to take a moment and read that piece, put it next to
the dossier. It's the same thing. It's the same thing. It's the same
story. It was written 11 years ago. Glen Simpson clearly had this
information about Russian influence in Washington he wrote 10 years
ago. Read the names in the article. Do you know who appears in this
article? Paul Manafort, all of these players. So what likely happened
after Plan A collapses is, they say listen, let's go to the FISA Court
and do this legally, but we need evidence. We don't have evidence.
Don't worry, Hillary Clinton's got a guy at Fusion GPS, says he's got a
story to tell. Ladies and gentlemen, Glen Simpson took his Wall Street
Journal piece like it was a movie script, scratched out the names, put
Donald Trump's name in there and said look, do orthopedic injury have a
story for you guys. It's all B.S. The whole dossier is crap. Read the
article, it's a movie script they recycled. It's a fairy tale, it's an
Aesop's Fable. It's made up. It's a scam. There is not a scintilla
of evidence that it's true.
Now, the big question on Plan B,
till I move to the mop up operation, Plan C. Now they're in trouble.
They're in a lot of trouble. Because they realize the dossier in and of
itself is crap and a lot of people at the Bureau know it. They need to
buttress it with some stuff to make it a little harder. Now is where
the Michael Cohen story comes in, Trump's lawyer.
In the
dossier is a very specific allegation, right? That Michael Cohen,
Trump's lawyer, went over to Prague to set up this whole information
exchange with the Russians, right? Well, what's the problem? Michael
Cohen had never been to Prague, and his passport proved it. Where do
you think they got that name, Michael Cohen? You're darn right, they
probably were in that NSA database looking up a Michael Cohen and they
got the wrong guy. I know there's only one Dan Bongino. I can tell you
for sure there are a whole lot of Michael Cohens, right? John Smith,
John Brown, Cohen, these are common last names. They got the wrong
Michael Cohen. So now you should be asking yourself, who the heck was
Glen Simpson dealing with in the government that gave him that name?
And how did they get it?
Plan B falls apart, too. Plan B
falls apart because something happens in November, Donald Trump wins.
Nobody, I'm telling you, take it to the bank, cash this check and spend
the money, nobody saw that coming, no one. Everybody thought Hillary
Clinton was going to get in, this was all going to go away, they were
going to appoint their own Attorney General, probably John Brennan and
this story is never, ever to see the light of day, not in their
lifetimes. But make no mistake, they know what they did. They all know
what they did. Every single one of them.
So they have to
move on to Plan C. Plan C, I call it Clean Up on Aisle 4. Now they're
in trouble. They know they've got white hats in the government. I know
one of them right now that's still in the FBI, that's unquestionably
cooperating with this investigation if you know how to read the tea
leaves. And if you read the book you'll figure out who it is. People
start cooperating and talking and now people are panicking. Now does
the John Brennan's meltdown after the election make sense? He's the
head of the intelligence community who, again another thing for you to
Google, but it's all in the book, again, who do you think John Brennan
met with right before the election at the "director level as reported on
by multiple media outlets: Bob Hannigan, the same guy from the British
Intelligence Agency that quits right after Trump's election. He quits
10 days after and doesn't tell anybody about it. He says oh, I'm
leaving for family reasons. What do you mean? You related to Donald
Trump? What do you mean, family reasons? Family reasons, the reason
that you're leaving is because Donald Trump got elected.
Who
also quits? John Carlin. Who's John Carlin? He's the head of the
Department of Justice National Security Division, the final division in
the Department of Justice to put their John Hancock on the FISA
warrant. He quits right after the election. Who did John Carlin work
for? Now clean up on Aisle 4 is going to start to make sense. Who did
John Carlin work for before he got there in the DOJ? He's Bob Mueller's
chief of staff. He was Bob Mueller's chief of staff. Now does Bob
Mueller make sense? Clean up Aisle 4, get the mops out. Everybody
realizes they're all going down; they faked the FISA warrant, they have
been involved in massive unmaskings. Susan Rice, Samantha Power, they
have been busted by the FISA Court tapping into the NSA database
for queries. They left a paper trail 65 miles long. Bob Mueller has to
clean this whole mess up. Bob Mueller, did you notice how right away
they had the name? So Bob Mueller's old chief of staff, is the cleanup
guy. Listen, make no mistake, Bob Mueller's job right now is one thing
and one thing only: keep the heat on Donald Trump relentlessly for
anything, for jaywalking, ripping off mattress tags, combing his hair
the wrong way, keep the attention on Trump no matter what because the
minute the Bob Mueller thing is resolved, all of this is going to come
out and it is hell hath no fury. Folks, they left a paper trail. They
can't run from this.
Mueller is brought in to get Trump
impeached because they don't want any of this to see light of day. Now
why Mueller? Mueller knows every player involved in this and has
intimate connections with all of them. The guy who signs off on the
B.S FISA warrant, John Carlin, his old chief of staff, his chief bulldog
in the case, Andy Weissman. Andrew Weissman worked with Bob Mueller.
Andy Weissman was the chief prosecutor on the Enron case when Bob
Mueller was the FBI director. Remember the Enron case that they screwed
up royally? That's how they know each other. Andy Weissman hates
Donald Trump. He's done emails congratulating Sally Yates for telling
Donald Trump to go pound sand. Oh, it gets better.
Who else
does Bob Mueller know? On Bob Mueller's Enron team, it all goes back to
Enron, that same Enron team headed by Andy Weissman had another lead
lawyer on the case who wasn't Kathryn Ruemmler. Who's Kathryn
Ruemmler? Obama's White House counsel who was Obama's lawyer while all
of this was going on. They know each other. Now you may say, fine, so
Bob Mueller knows Obama's lawyer while this whole spy-gate thing was
going on. What's the big deal? You Google George Nader Daily Beast,
you can read an article today. It just popped up today before we showed
up. One of Bob Mueller's lead cooperators in this case who's been
selling out members of the Trump team from Day 1 is a guy named George
Nader. Who's George Nader's lawyer? Kathryn Ruemmler. Obama's White
House counsel and Bob Mueller's buddy. The lawyer for the lead witness
in this case feeding information to Mueller is Obama's White House
counsel otherwise known as the fixer. She fixed everything for them.
She was involved in Benghazi, she was involved in the IRS, she was
involved in the Secret Service scandal. Just Google her name, put in
any one of those things and who's the person giving the statement?
Kathryn Ruemmler. Who was also on that Enron taskforce? Lisa Monaco.
Barack Obama's Homeland Security and counterterrorism advisor in the
White House while all of this was going on. They all know each other.
Your final piece to the cleanup on Aisle 4 operation: Who else does
Bob Mueller know? Who now has judicial—excuse me—legislative control
over this? I should say, right now in the Department of Justice, right?
Rod Rosenstein, right? Because Sessions had recused himself, now
Whitaker's in there which was a good appointment, right?
A
case happens a little while ago, the TENEX case. It's around 2015 or
so. It happens in Maryland. I'm familiar with it because I worked in
Maryland as a Secret Service agent in Baltimore. I wasn't involved in
that case at all but I know the office well. The TENEX case goes down
in Maryland. The TENEX case, a cooperator for the United States
government paid $50,000.00 by the FBI, comes to the FBI with some
troubling information that the Russians are helping the Iranians build
their nuclear program and that there's a company helping the Russians
get a hold of our uranium. It's called the TENEX case. It was the
precursor to something you may have heard about: the Uranium 1
operation. The same players are involved. The case gets thrown out on a
BS press release on a Friday night so nobody would pay attention.
Everybody's gag-ordered and it all goes away, that the Obama
administration and FBI-paid informant admitted that we were giving the
Russians uranium while they were building the Iranian nuclear program
and chanting death to America. Who was the lead prosecutor on that
TENEX case, the precursor to Uranium 1? Rod Rosenstein. And who's the
FBI director? Bob Mueller. Folks, they all know each other.
This is the biggest scam in American history. Folks, I beg of you, I
really do, you cannot let your legislative people, your congressmen or
anyone off the hook. Whatever connections you have, you need to keep
the heat on this because if these people don't go down, the right way,
unlike the Obama administration tried to do it to us, this will happen
again. I'm telling you, what they did was such a grotesque, horrendous
abuse of power. It disgusts me to this day and I will never ever forget
that story about that guy we arrested and his crying kid that morning
who wasn't going to see his dad for another year. That's a horrible
thing to have to do to someone and it's a grotesque thing to do to
someone, to unleash the power of the federal government when they did
nothing wrong. And Donald Trump did nothing wrong and if you read the
book, and by the way, it's not a narrative. You don't have to read it
straight through. It's written like a police file. I think that's why
it's been selling like crazy. You can read the last chapter first.
It’s written like a police file because the names, like I said, this is
an hour long speech I compressed into 20 plus minutes.
The
names never stop coming up again. Ever. Oleg Deripaska connected to
Vladimir Putin who's connected to Adam Waldman, a lobbyist who's
emailing and texting Mark Warner, a democrat on the senate committee.
Who's Waldman working for too? Christopher Steele, the guy working for
Hillary. They're connected to the Russians. The people that show up at
the Trump Tower meeting. Veselnitskaya with Don, Jr. and Rinat
Akhmetshin. Veselnitskaya works for Fusion GPS on a separate case and
Akhmetshin, the other guy, the Russian intel guy that shows up at the
Trump Tower meeting, you know who his lawyer is? Edward Lieberman. You
know who Lieberman's wife is? Evelyn Lieberman. Bill Clinton's old
chief of staff. Read the book folks; it's all laid out for you. So,
thanks for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
