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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. So much winning, folks. So much winning. We actually put it on a shirt. This was Paula's brainchild. She loves running that store. So stare for you if you want it. The winning happens every day. It just keeps coming in. It keeps coming in.
And I don't know about you, but I'm not tired about the winning. Judge Bongino has ruled. Keep the winning coming. The verdict is in. Listen, I got a big show for you today. Folks, the situation in the negotiations for Ukraine, the future of Ukraine, the future of Russia, the European Union are getting really hot. And they're getting really hot right now.
Chapter 2: What are the key details of Trump's peace talks with Ukraine?
And the media, of course, is mischaracterizing the whole thing to the point that even insiders are starting to say right now, well, at least Trump is saying out loud what Biden was trying to do privately. Biden just didn't have the courage to say it. I'll get into that in a minute, and I want to ask a critical question. What does Zelensky know, and when did he know it?
Folks, I documented this extensively in my book, Follow the Money, how this insane in Ukraine, that's the name of the chapter, how Ukraine has been treated like a piggy bank for a long time by a lot of people. It's one of the reasons Donald Trump was impeached, and Zelensky knows about it. Why hasn't he come clean on that? We got a lot to talk about today. Don't go anywhere.
Chapter 3: How has Ukraine been used as a geopolitical tool?
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Your call, store.bongino.com. So much winning.com. Winning just keeps coming in fast and furious. So we love you. She loves you. I know you like the chum. We call it the chum store. So we'd love you to pick one up. So, folks, before I get to what did Zelensky know and when did he know it, because I'm telling you, you have to listen to Brother Bongino here.
You will never understand the Ukraine situation until you understand the whole Ukraine situation. Looking at it through a simple lens of – You know, good guy, one guy good, one guy bad is very, very simplistic and does not describe all of the mechanics of what's going on and what happened here. You'll see what I mean in a minute, but I want to play this first because there's so much winning.
I can't get enough of these clips of Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller is a deputy chief of staff at the White House under Donald Trump. I think going on CNN and humiliating them there is a really good idea. Some people disagree. They say, stay off these crazy networks. But this is where a lot of persuadable people are.
I think the biggest mistake the liberals made in the last election, Kamala Harris and others, is not going on Joe Rogan and Fox. Not that they would have convinced us, but they got smoked. Icing out Fox and others. Don't replicate this strategy. I know some of you disagree. Totally cool. This is not a monarchy. You're entitled to your own opinion. A lot of people online stay off these networks.
Totally cool. I disagree. I used to do CNN all the time. I used to love to argue over there. This is Breonna Keillor, obviously not very bright. Listen to her ask a question about Doge to Stephen Miller. Get completely wrecked by an intellect 10x hers, right? And then pretend she knew the answer the whole time, which makes you wonder if she knew the answer, why did she ask the question?
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Chapter 4: What did the Biden and Poroshenko phone call reveal?
He's the administrator of Doge?
No. Doge is what was formerly U.S. Digital Services. It's an agency of the federal government that reports into the executive office of the president, which reports to the president of the United States.
Okay.
The way that Article 2 works is the president wins an election, and then he appoints staff, including myself, including Mike Waltz, including Susie Wiles, including Elon Musk, and those staff report to him.
Did she not know that? So the president's running. Do you understand how stupid this is? The president appoints the director of the Secret Service, too. It doesn't mean the president is sitting in the Secret Service office over on H Street and headquarters on the eighth floor sitting there making decisions. But the Secret Service under the Department of Homeland Security works for the president.
Brianna, I'm serious. Are you this dumb or are you just playing dumb? Do you think the CEO of the Ford Motor Company, who has a technology development division, is working on in his office a microprocessor for their new whatever electric car? Do you think he's actually doing that right there? You mean he's not the administrator? Are these people this stupid? The answer is they're not. They're not.
They're playing dumb because they're not serious people. What they're doing is they're trying to find a way to object to the Doge, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and government employees in the Doge uncovering the fraud that people in the left-wing media are trying to protect. So what do they do? They're just inventing new arguments every day. What do you mean?
The president's not the administrator of Doge? Are you this stupid? All right, moving on. In the chat, do you guys want me to stop playing this stuff on CNN? I got to tell you, I know we talk about edutainment, educational entertainment. There's really no educational value to this at all. I'm serious. It's only entertainment. I just get a kick out of Stephen Miller owning the libs on CNN.
If you want me to stop, let me know. No, no, no, no, no. Who's that? Elaine?
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Chapter 5: Why is Zelensky's stance on Trump controversial?
I'm really getting sick of the left-wingers out there and even some kind of war hawks on the right when they discuss Ukraine, leaving out various factors here that are important. Yes, can we all agree on some basic facts? The Ukrainians did not deserve any of this, okay? I don't believe in any way, shape, or form that the Ukrainian people were the bad guys in this.
If the Ukrainians stop fighting, there'd be no Ukraine. Has been said many times. If Russians stop fighting, there'd be peace. Fine. That argument is a solid and decent data-based argument to make. But suggesting here that... Zelensky, the current president of Ukraine, that his hands are clean in what's been a global attack on populism and Donald Trump is ridiculous.
Donald Trump knows this, folks. There's a true social post he put out just minutes before we got on the air where he's starting to ask simple questions. Thank you, guys. Got this up pretty quickly. He says, hey, we spent hundreds of billions of dollars in a war that couldn't be won. and never had a star, but a war that he, without the U.S. and Trump, will never be able to settle.
He's talking about Zelensky. He's talking about all this money we spent, more than Europe, and the United States is getting nothing back. Why is Donald Trump so upset about this? He's talking about Zelensky not hosting elections, too. Not holding elections, excuse me. Folks, Donald Trump was impeached. Impeached from... Luckily, he won the trial, of course. It wasn't luck. It was a crap case.
But because of a phone call with who? Anybody know? Zelenskyy. The phone call, the allegations at the time, in case you forgot, you probably didn't, was that it was a quid pro quo call that Donald Trump was calling because he wanted information about Hunter Biden in exchange for military support. The transcript, of course, was released by the Trump team. The transcript showed no such quid pro quo.
It did show, in fact, Donald Trump asking Zelensky about what the Biden team was up to In Ukraine, because I believe Donald Trump, in his head, believed there were serious violations of U.S. law that could have caused a national security crisis. The Biden team had a number of suspicious business dealings with Ukrainian officials, and Trump was trying to get to the bottom of it.
Zelensky knew what happened on that phone call. Why? Because he was on the phone call! But I want you to remember a little bit of history here. Zelensky could have saved the United States a lot of drama by immediately coming out and defending Donald Trump vigorously and loudly and uncovering for the American people what Joe Biden had been up to because he knew it's his government. But he didn't.
He didn't. So Donald Trump, I can almost guarantee you, who knows this, is very suspicious of Zelensky because of what he and some of the people in his government did to sweep under the rug the Joe Biden madness, which led to Donald Trump's impeachment. I'm going to serve you a little reminder here. This is a New York Post video, right? This is a hat tip New York Post.
This is a recorded phone call between Joe Biden, Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko, who was the president of Ukraine before Zelensky from 2014 to 2019. I want you to listen about how afraid Joe Biden is, how he's lobbying Poroshenko to basically make this thing go away and he'll sign this billion dollar IMF aid package if Poroshenko makes it go away.
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Chapter 6: How does the conservative information ecosystem work?
You guys helped create it. The disinformation was he was impeached over a quid pro quo that never happened and you knew about it. He's in a disinformation bubble, they say. Demanding $500 billion in minerals is not a serious conversation. And says Donald Trump has helped Putin. Really? How exactly has he helped Putin? He's giving you, the Ukrainian government, hundreds of billions of dollars.
All he's asking is where's $30 trillion in debt? If we are going to help you... stave off annihilation by the Russians with our money that we're already in debt, then there should be some path to making this whole. So I've got an idea. You guys have rare earth minerals in Ukraine that we need.
It's insensitive territory, by the way, that this is another, you're not really hearing this angle anywhere else. The rare earth minerals are in sensitive parts of Ukraine that the Russians are going to want. This deal only, this is a, I hate the term win-win because it's so stupid and juvenile, but this is a win-win-win-win-win.
We get paid back for the massive amounts of money we're spending in Ukraine. We get rare earth minerals we need here desperately because China's getting ready to shut us down. And it's on land that the Russians could and want to take over. They're not going to take it over if they're our rare earth minerals because they know they'd be toying with us. So what does Zelensky do?
He, quote, condemns Trump and he's in a disinformation bubble. You know, I am not an anti-Ukrainian war effort guy. I got an open mind on all this. Just, I only ask this. Tell me how it benefits the United States. Make a compelling case. Give me an exit ramp about what our battle plan is and what it looks like when we win. And I'm open to hearing it.
But I'm telling the Ukrainian government that supports Zelensky and Zelensky himself. This is the biggest podcast out there. This is not a small operation. You're making a huge mistake. This is not the way to handle this. Donald Trump's helping Putin. Really? Are we back now to the collusion thing? And why don't you come clean about the Poroshenko tapes and all this other stuff?
And finally clear up that the impeachment thing was a hoax. I told you when I opened up this show. There are a lot of people in the United States who are starting to realize that There's a couple op-eds even in the Wall Street Journal that Donald Trump is simply saying out loud what Joe Biden was too cowardly, too cowardly, wouldn't say out loud before, but was doing anyway.
That there is no way at this point that this war is going to end with everybody being happy. It is the nature of human violence. It is sad. It is horrifying. There is no way that this ends with everybody throwing a McDonald's birthday party at the end, okay? It's not going to happen. Sorry, I was just a little fired up about that. And one more thing about that New York Post audio clip.
Notice how the Ukrainian lawmaker who gave the tapes to Rudy Giuliani, instead of the press scrutinizing the tapes outside of the New York Post, which did a great job, who did they attack? Rudy Giuliani. They don't want you to know anything about Ukraine, Zelensky, the piggy bank, because a lot of them benefited from it. I'm telling you, just read the book. Just read the first.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Eric Adams's investigation?
Yeah, and she's correct. This is one of the first things Peppermint Patty said in a long time that's actually accurate. And you guys should be very proud of yourself for this. This is kind of a celebratory moment, not meant to be some kind of educational thing. It's just meant to reward really, really good behavior. So we keep doing it, me included. This reminds me that what we do is different.
We don't see the success of Western Lensman or Mays Morris taking away from my Twitter. Keep doing it. This is how you win elections. But more importantly, listen, it's how you win over people's minds. The democratization of information. The left can't do it. They see everything as power, power, power. This takes from me, takes from me. That's why they're so miserable all the time.
We're a bunch of happy warriors. Look at you guys in the chat. We got the McGroin crew. We're always trying to celebrate stuff. So thank you. All right, moving on, because I got to get to some more really substantive stuff.
Folks, one of the things I pride myself on in this show is debunking stupid left-wing narratives so that you have the material to go forward and, in the educational part of the edutainment thing, educate your silly liberal friends sometimes about their dopey narratives. And I got to tell you, one narrative over the last few days that is driving me bananas is the Eric Adams case up in New York.
Just a quick brief, here's an abstract on it. For those of you who don't know, most of you do, but... Eric Adams is the mayor of New York. Not a particularly big fan of the guy. I think you know that. We were cops at the same time in New York, but that's a long story. I'm the spreadsheets guy. I don't get emotional. He's been a plus one on some issues lately, a negative on a whole lot of others.
You get the point. Eric Adams was under investigation by the Justice Department, the United States Justice Department, obviously, for what appeared to be some acts of corruption, kind of quid pro quos while we're on the topic, right? The Justice Department thought it was a weak case and needed Eric Adams as the mayor of New York City, a very important guy.
They need him to clean up New York City because they've got a really bad public safety situation with illegal immigration. So I'm sitting here watching this, and have you seen the liberals melt down on this? You can't do these deals and offers with the Justice Department to meet public safety ends and all this stuff like that. That never happens.
And I'm like, do we have any cops in the chat or feds? You don't have to out yourselves. I get it. I understand. But we probably do if you feel comfortable and you have an anonymous name. Go right ahead. Contrary to what people say, we love anonymity. We just don't like deep staters pretending to be us, right? We love it. Cops and feds out there, you're probably laughing right now, correct?
Because you know where I'm going with this. Freaking deals are cut all the time by the federal government and the Justice Department. For political reasons, too. Are you crazy? Did you miss something? So I decided to show you, Democrats, again, how crazy you are. Can't cut a deal with Eric Adams. Really?
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Chapter 8: How do political deals impact justice and governance?
You just listen to Obama say, hey, banks, we won't prosecute you, but here's what you're going to do. You're going to give a bunch of money to a bunch of left-wing groups out there? The left, not only did they have no problem with that, they loved it. The Justice Department Eric Adams case is far less awful than that. They don't think it's a great case to begin with.
So you don't prosecute a case that you don't think is open and shut at this point, especially with such a serious outcome before an election in a primary. And second, they need something from the mayor. Make the United States safe. This happens all the time. Gosh, these arguments. Can you lefties just get better at this? I got to tell you, you can almost make my show boring.
It's so easy with you idiots. Nobody ever cuts deals in the federal government. Have you? Guys, all right, chatsters, I need you again. Folks in the chat, I can't call you a chatster. Some guy says he hates it. So I love my audience, right? Folks in the chat.
There's actually a thing called a cooperation agreement in the federal government where bad guys agree to cooperate and do stuff for the Justice Department. You can look it up. It's called a cooperation agreement. There were 5K letters and all kinds. You really want to get into it back. Just look it up yourself. It's so easy.
Now you see why the Democrat Party is committing suicide right in front of your eyes. Don't take my word for it. There was a Democrat, I believe it was CNBC's guy, Alex Karp, talking about the exact same thing. Folks, they will not get it together because they can't. Stay tuned. Last break. I got that.
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