In the wake of the Epstein scandal and the release of the Panama Papers, many are asking the question: what is the Trump administration up to? Is it investigating Epstein, or is it investigating something else? And if so, what is that something else, and what is it doing?
00:00:55.200And the question is, where are the arrests?
00:00:57.200Many people are questioning Dan Bongino.
00:00:59.200What did you do when you were in the FBI?
00:01:02.200And it seems on the surface that not a whole lot is happening.
00:01:05.200To be fair, a lot of groundwork has been done by the FBI.
00:01:08.200They've arrested a lot of street level criminals and really nasty people, criminal cartels.
00:01:12.200And the DHS, of course, is arresting these illegal immigrant criminals as well.
00:01:17.200But people want to know about the corruption.
00:01:19.200They want to know about the powerful political elites who seem to be getting away with everything.
00:01:24.200Well, my friends, I bring you now into the deep dive of what may be going on, though we, as just members of the public, can only scratch the surface.
00:01:35.200It appears there is a plan in place by Donald Trump and his administration to track down some of this corruption.
00:01:43.200Knowing Donald Trump, of course, it's particularly vain.
00:01:46.200He's going after the 2020 election, which I think is important.
00:01:50.200And I think we deserve an investigation and answers.
00:01:53.200And if Trump is proven wrong, then so be it.
00:01:55.200But now we're learning that over the past year, there have been efforts to track down information on just what happened in 2020.
00:02:06.200It may be that through ballot harvesting efforts and lockdown, Donald Trump was handily defeated by Joe Biden.
00:02:13.200I don't think that on a normal day, regular people go out and vote for Joe Biden.
00:02:17.200But when everyone's locked down with nothing to do and you blame Trump for it, it's not that hard to ballot harvest.
00:02:22.200There are questions about foreign interference.
00:02:25.200And considering we spent, I don't know what, four years, like the entirety of Trump's first term, entertaining this ludicrous lie about Russian interference, I got no problem saying tit for tat.
00:02:36.200We're going to investigate Venezuelan interference.
00:02:40.200Now, I got to be honest, based on the assessment and everything I've seen, I do not believe there is strong evidence that Venezuela was involved.
00:02:47.200And a lot of these theories that were purported in 2020, I don't believe are likely correct.
00:02:52.200But I said it before and I'll say it again.
00:02:54.200I got no problem with an investigation.
00:02:56.200You want to launch a $35 million investigation into Trump over Russia.
00:02:59.200I got no problem if you want to send Tulsi Gabbard to Puerto Rico to start looking at voting machines, which is what she is doing.
00:03:05.200And now we've got Democrats all in a tizzy calling it a scam.
00:03:11.200We are getting smears of Tulsi as news emerges that, in fact, over the past year, she seems to be investigating something related to this.
00:03:22.200But we know she's investigating something to do with these elections.
00:03:25.200She was in Fulton County, Georgia, when they seized these ballots, reportedly.
00:03:29.200And she was in Puerto Rico for similar reasons.
00:03:31.200One theory is that with the capture of Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, they will force a confession where he will say, yes, Venezuela did interfere.
00:03:40.200And the Democrats are saying it's a scam.
00:04:02.200Is Trump willing to come out and say our voting machines have been compromised by Venezuela?
00:04:07.200Maduro's confessed and the midterms are now in jeopardy.
00:04:10.200The perspective of many, many of these people on the left is that Trump will not allow a midterm defeat because that will mean impeachment.
00:04:17.200And it will mean prison for a lot of other prominent conservative personalities.
00:11:37.200Now the argument for the liberals, of course, is going to be that because Trump's going to use this to fabricate evidence.
00:11:42.200Okay, then say that literally say that in these articles, public officials, I want to see the Democrats come out and say,
00:11:48.200we don't want the DOJ or the FBI to get access to these documents because they will use them and then fabricate evidence to steal the election.
00:11:56.200Say it. Otherwise your resistance makes no sense.
00:12:01.200Well, here we go. Ladies and gentlemen, from democracy docket, you know, it's our liberal friends.
00:12:06.200They say election deniers think Maduro's capture will expose the plot to steal the 2020 vote.
00:12:22.200Is she through this alleging that there was a that there was foreign interference in Georgia in 2020 and that's why Donald Trump lost?
00:12:35.200Could they have gotten a warrant regarding foreign interference into Georgia's election from 2020?
00:12:43.200Well, remember, the director of national security has no domestic law enforcement responsibilities.
00:12:52.200The whole notion of the national security laws that were put in place after the Watergate break in was to keep foreign and our spy agencies looking foreign, not at our country.
00:13:03.200If she alleges now after the fact and there's been some wacky theories on the Internet of Italian spy satellites breaking into voting rules that have been totally debunked.
00:13:15.200But if she says there's some claim of foreign interference, if she has not reported that to the oversight committees, the intelligence committees, she has violated her responsibilities as director of national intelligence.
00:14:07.200In response to this article, liberals are claiming Trump is going to falsely have Maduro confess in exchange for a pardon.
00:14:15.200So that way he can assert control over the elections before the midterms.
00:14:19.200Reuters reported US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico.
00:14:24.200A team working for President Donald Trump spy chief Tulsi Gabbard last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines.
00:14:30.200Said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the previously unreported events.
00:14:34.200The sources said the goal was to work with the FBI to investigate claims that Venezuela had hacked voting machines in Puerto Rico.
00:14:41.200But added the probe did not produce any clear evidence of Venezuelan interference in the US territories elections.
00:14:47.200Reuters first reported the investigation.
00:14:50.200Gabbard's office and a statement to Reuters confirmed the May investigation but denied a link to Venezuela.
00:14:55.200Saying its focus was on vulnerabilities in the island's electronic voting system.
00:14:59.200Her team took an unspecified number of Puerto Rico's voting machines and additional copies of data from the machines as part of its investigation.
00:15:06.200A spokesperson for Gabbard's office of the director of national intelligence said.
00:15:10.200To go back to that statement from our Democrat friend on Katie Tur's show.
00:15:13.200He says if she knows of a Venezuelan plot or foreign interference, she needs to tell us.
00:15:25.200Her office says they're taking voting machines and data with standard practice in forensics analysis.
00:15:29.200Noting similar voting infrastructure elsewhere in the US, it added.
00:15:32.200ODNI found extremely concerning cybersecurity and operational deployment practices that pose a significant risk to US elections.
00:15:38.200Jorge Rivera Rueda, head of Puerto Rico State Election Commission, said he could not comment on any ongoing investigations.
00:15:44.200Adding, the commission will fully cooperate with any investigative process conducted by the appropriate authorities, whether at the state or federal level.
00:15:51.200Venezuela's government did not respond to a request for comment.
00:15:54.200ODNI said some security gaps in voting machines used in Puerto Rico stemmed from their use of vulnerable cellular technology.
00:16:00.200And that software flaws existed that could give hackers access deep into vital electoral systems.
00:16:06.200The Puerto Rico operation appeared to be part of an effort by the Trump administration to pursue unproven allegations of voting fraud, the sources said.
00:16:13.200The preoccupation with voter fraud dates to Trump's reelection loss in 2020 and has not abated, said the sources, who spoke in the condition of anonymity to discuss non-public operations.
00:16:23.200Democratic leaders in Congress voiced alarm over Reuters' report on the Puerto Rico operation.
00:16:27.200Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said the Trump administration was violating state and federal laws in the US Constitution by seeking the election records.
00:16:34.200They're trying to intimidate local elected officials, Schumer told MSNOW television on Thursday.
00:16:40.200What's most alarming here is that the director is that director Gabbard's own team acknowledges there was no evidence of foreign interference, yet they seized voting machines and election data anyway.
00:17:10.200It's one of those things where it's just like, are you are you trying to make an argument that doesn't make sense because people will believe it?
00:17:48.200Could you imagine if the FBI, it's like they found a box covered in blood at a crime scene, but they took it even though they couldn't verify there was any evidence in it.
00:18:25.200But I believe that is the preponderance of evidence that Trump lost to Biden and people say, how could Biden have gotten so many votes because people were locked down and they blamed Trump.
00:18:48.200Critics say the office of the director of national intelligence is exceeding its authority and expertise.
00:18:52.200President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence has seized voting machines in Puerto Rico as part of the administration's ongoing effort to find proof of voter fraud.
00:19:00.200Tulsi Gabbard has apparently made it her mission to advance Trump's personal grievances, including his repeatedly debunked claims the election in 2020 was stolen.
00:19:08.200Gabbard 44 was on site last week at Kash Patel's FBI rated as Kash Patel's FBI rated an election center outside Atlanta, Georgia, for materials related to Trump's electoral loss.
00:19:18.200Now her office, ODNI, has confirmed that it also took the extraordinary step of seizing an unspecified number of voting machines in Puerto Rico.
00:19:38.200The truth behind the viral claim about Donald Trump and the 2020 rigged election.
00:19:42.200Well, it wouldn't be a wackaloon liberal claim without our good friend Ed Krasenstein, who says breaking.
00:19:47.200It appears as though Trump may be offering a pardon to Nicolas Maduro in exchange for him making claims that Venezuela helped rig the 2020 US election for Joe Biden.
00:20:16.200It will give Donald Trump general federal pretext for oversight, meaning he can send in federal observers to these voting locations to monitor them.
00:20:27.200And the argument is going to be that ODNI has evidence of foreign interference and they can push back and they can argue all they want.
00:20:34.200Trump will likely do it anyway, if that is the case.
00:20:37.200Now, based on Trump's track record, I'm going to go and say Trump is substantially weaker than these people claim, much too weak to actually do what they're arguing he will do.
00:20:53.900In response to the story about Tulsi Gabbard leading this Puerto Rico investigation,
00:20:58.900Pedro Gonzalez says this is a test run for the Trump admin wants to do to the rest of America ahead of the midterms.
00:21:03.900And Gabbard is just the person to take point because she's so deeply compromised with this whistleblower complaint against her, which is discredited.
00:21:14.900Trump's laying the groundwork for trying to steal the next elections in the is the most important story right now.
00:21:19.900Naturally, conservatives aren't interested at all and are instead gooning over Hollywood casting choices that have hurt their fragile feelings.
00:21:26.900Now, what I want to stress here is that it is a lie.
00:21:29.900The first thing you need to break down in Pedro, you are a manipulative evil man.
00:21:36.900I believe we've hosted on the show before, but I see this and his statement and what I see is manipulation and I would describe it as evil.
00:21:45.900Firstly, let's break down his manipulations.
00:21:48.900He says there's a whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard.
00:21:52.900OK, the Federalist says a so-called whistleblower filed a complaint against her alleging wrongdoing so sensitive that his details supposedly could not be disclosed.
00:22:00.900The complaint was reviewed and closed because it lacked credibility.
00:22:03.900The determination was made by Tamara Johnson, a career official who served as the acting inspecting general of the intelligence community during the Biden administration.
00:22:10.900That should have been the end of the story.
00:22:12.900Instead, the secrecy surrounding the complaint has been repackaged as proof that something terrible must have occurred.
00:22:17.900The absence of evidence is now being marketed as evidence itself.
00:22:20.900And thus, when you have Pedro Gonzalez using that manipulation that has no credibility or bare minimum, there's nothing to glean from it.
00:22:29.900I have nothing to say. OK, a complaint was made. It was found not credible.
00:22:33.900We don't know what's going on. There's nothing there. Why even bring it up except to poison the well?
00:22:37.900Now he makes the additional point about how Hollywood, I'm sorry, conservatives are gooning over Hollywood casting choices.
00:22:45.900I actually have a post I made the other day that actually resulted in I think either like me getting blocked by the guy.
00:22:52.900I think the guy deleted the tweet. Yeah, he deleted the tweet.
00:22:55.900Let me pull this up for you and show you the manipulations these people engage in.
00:22:58.900So there was a post that made the same claim because as you can see here, Michael Knowles had discussed Helen of Troy being black in a new casting and he got 60,000 views.
00:23:09.900They said currently the Epstein files are being released and conservatives are talking about Hollywood because they're trying to cover up for Trump.
00:23:16.900So I did what any normal sane person would do. I pulled up all Michael knows his YouTube channel. What did I find?
00:23:23.900In fact, on the exact same day, he did a 50 minute breakdown of the Epstein files to which he got 320,000 views.
00:23:31.900In fact, the most successful podcast he did that day was discussing Epstein.
00:23:35.900And then after the fact he did another video, what they do here is they manipulate.
00:23:42.900They want you to believe that he never actually made the point.
00:23:46.900Well, this tweet got deleted because they are liars.
00:23:49.900It's what they do by all means challenge Trump on what is going on with this Tulsi Gabbard stuff.
00:23:56.900Apparently she's claimed Trump center out there to investigate.
00:24:00.900Perhaps that's the case. I don't know.
00:24:02.900I don't know, but I am looking at all this and I'm trying to weigh this against the political biases.
00:24:06.900The people who support Trump are largely going to believe that yes, Venezuela did this.