It Could All Go Down Today | Episode 84

23:05Dan Bongino:elections to the benefit of Democrats and the detriment of President Donald Trump. Just the news has learned. The grand conspiracy case was opened several weeks ago after new FBI Director Kash Patel took over, and it could get a significant boost if Trump were to declassify two secret tranches of evidence that identify a potential ignition point to the alleged conspiracy in the summer of 2016, according to several people directly familiar with the inquiry who spoke to just the news on the condition of anonymity. I'll just summarize what's left of this article for you to give you a good understanding of what's happening here.

23:43Dan Bongino:Remember the sequence of events. Hillary Clinton's classified email scandal was blowing up into full view by July of 2016. It was then that Hillary Clinton's campaign cooked up a plan to advance a hoax that President Trump was in any way colluding with the Russian government. This is when she goes to her law firm, Perkins Coie and Mark Elias. They in turn go to Fusion GPS. They in turn go to Christopher Steele. And he generates a document that is packed with lies about the president of the United States, the now president of the United States. Hillary Clinton did that. The FBI knew because she was trying to distract from her own theft of classified information kept on a homebrew server in her house in Chappaqua, New York.

24:36Dan Bongino:It is as simple as that. But what's not simple is the complex conspiracy that ensued. Hillary Clinton, her campaign, her campaign lawyer, Christopher Steele, all of the people within the FBI, the United States Department of Justice, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, the people at the White House, James Clapper. By now, you've heard all of these names through the years, and you've seen the outer edges, at least the publicly known components of the conspiracy. Now the FBI is digging into it internally. And here's why that matters so much. A lot of the time we've run into statute of limitations issues, statute of limitations issues.

25:22In other words, these crimes happened so long ago, 2016. They're outside of the statute of limitations.

25:27Dan Bongino:Here's what's different though, when it comes to a criminal conspiracy. The five-year, this is what John Solomon writes this morning. The five-year statute of limitations on one of the inquiries is only weeks away from expiring. That's the fake mail-in ballot scheme with China. The FBI knew about it, failed to investigate it. That statute is just weeks away from expiring since the evidence arrived in August of 2020, leaving the potential for criminal charges or other accountability on an almost impossibly tight timetable. But the overarching conspiracy case opened by Patel's FBI offers a more expansive approach that will allow a special prosecutor time to tie alleged criminal events currently covered by statutes of limitation to older events by treating them as a part of an ongoing conspiracy or even a racketeering operation.

26:21Dan Bongino:The grand conspiracy probe also would open the door to impanel a grand jury outside of Washington, D.C. You got that? Let me reiterate that point. outside of Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. is rigged political theater for the left. They need to impanel this grand jury outside of Washington, D.C. Remember when Jack Smith was going after President Trump, accusing him of mishandling classified documents? Where did he start the grand jury before he transferred it to Florida? Washington, D.C. That's what Jack Smith did. They rigged it in order to achieve the political hit job they were pursuing. This, John Solomon's not reporting this because he made it up.

27:07John Solomon's reporting this because this confirms all of the news we've been seeing break over the last week and a half, which is that James Comey and John Brennan are being investigated right now by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for being engaged in a conspiracy. And because parts of this, including the Jack Smith raid on Mar-a-Lago and Melania Trump's underwear drawer happened in Florida, that means that we can take this to Florida, giving this a real chance with a real grand jury to really go forward. So again, I ask you, who would you want to lead the FBI under these circumstances?

27:49Who do you want at the top of that agency in the midst of one of the most important, sensitive, and obviously necessary investigations in the history of our country, you want cash and you want Dan.

28:05Dan Bongino:So if the president successfully impressed upon Dan Bongino Sunday that he needs him in that seat, especially for something like this, I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised the president asked for that. And I'm not surprised, again, if it all comes true, that Dan would say yes. More in a moment. Susan Crabtree is going to join us. We're going to talk about the United States Secret Service and what is happening there and whether or not there has been any meaningful accountability for the events in Butler, Pennsylvania, now over a year ago yesterday. It's all ahead on this edition of Vince. This episode is sponsored by Pocket Hose, the world's number one expandable hose.

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32:10It's great to be with you again, Vince. Well, it's a busy one today. So let's dive into the Secret Service, shall we? You know, you've been following what's going on at that agency really aggressively. And we just had the one-year anniversary of Butler.

32:26Dan Bongino:What are you learning even at this late date? Well, there were two huge Senate reports that came out of the weekend. So I basically had just spent my entire weekend pouring through those. And I'll tell you what the news is out of those. First of all, I broke some news last week about the suspensions, these six slap on the wrist suspensions of people that were involved, Secret Service agents and uniform division, the counter snipers involved in Butler, you know, the poor, the failures, responsible for the failures. And what we had yesterday is a goldmine. That Senator Rand Paul report is an absolute goldmine.

33:05I thought there was no accountability all year. I thought that the Congress was shirking their oversight duties. I still am upset that they didn't hold any hearings with Sean Curran, zero so far. But this report, there's some explosive things in this report. First of all, my reporting from last week, the supervisors are not getting, that we're covering for basically providing the oversight, did not get suspended. The lower junior officers are taking the fall for the most part. There were two key supervisors, Nick Minster and Nick Olszewski. They not only were not suspended, they got big, huge promotions.

33:54One, Nick Menster is the number two on the Laura and Eric Trump detail. Nick Olashensky is, ironically, the head of the inspections division, which is in charge of providing accountability and integrity for all Secret Service operations. He was the inspector going through all the final walkthroughs on the ground that day with a junior agent, Mio Perez, who was in charge of security. But he was the supervisor and so was Nick Minster. And they both got to skate and got big promotions out of it. Meanwhile, these junior, there is so much farcical things coming out of the service right now. I can't even believe it.

34:35Rand Paul, you see that he had to wait. He subpoenaed on July 1st. They weren't cooperating with him for a lot of this material, including the suspension letters that they delivered. So the details of why these people were being suspended. He had to run Rand Paul's office had to subpoena on July 1st. They didn't get back to him till July 3rd. And that's why this report was taking so long, because there was stonewalling going on the Secret Service. But what I want to emphasize, the big explosive things. Last week I reported, well, Saturday I reported that Donald Trump at a Christmas party with Secret Service agents last year said, I don't want, you can recognize he was gathering with his detail after an obviously turbulent period.

35:22and he said, hey, you recognize that one person's not with us. That person, he wouldn't say her by name, is Mio Perez, who's in charge of the site security, the junior agent known for partying, was in charge of the site. He said, you notice she's not here. And then he said to others, he's like, there's a reason for that. He said to others, I don't want her anywhere near me. Well, guess what? She got off with not being fired, but just a 42-day suspension. Then we see that the Secret Service countersniper, who is the big hero from J13, he actually, according to the Rand Paul report, was also one of the big failures of the day.

36:06Sadly enough, he can be both. It's a complicated world. And he actually did not do that. That countersniper plan was a complete wreck. There was trees obscuring. There was nobody on the AGR building where Thomas Brooks fired off the shots. There is so much news that was pouring out this week. So in other words, that sniper was in a position of leadership is what you're telling me that he should have been making tactical decisions ahead of being ahead of the whole rally that would have prevented any of this from happening in the first place. Yes, absolutely. And in fact, he did not tell, there's interviews, testimony from him with Congress.

36:47He did not tell Sean Kern, the shift agent that was in charge of the inner ring of security around Donald Trump on the stage. When he saw, he got a report that they were looking for Thomas Crooks and they had a range fighter. He didn't bother to call the shift and say, hey, look, I'm looking for this guy. Be aware. Don't bring Donald Trump out onto that stage. So yes, he's both the hero and part of the problem of the Secret Service. And he was a supervisor. He had 10 years more experience than the guy that took the fall that got the suspension, who has not been back to work, by the way. Yes. The lower junior, more junior counter sniper who was his counterpart, Hercules two.

37:28He was Hercules one. So he had to turn his body all around because Hercules one was supposed to see Thomas Crooks. But there was trees obscuring the AGR building. That was a huge flaw in this plan. Now, they only had two days to come up with their secret, their plan because they do a separate plan. They have to counter snipers do their own plan. So we know now that that is ridiculous because the Secret Service top brass knew about the Iranian threat. This is according to the Grassley report that came out this week, 10 days before the Butler rally. So why did they only decide to give counter snipers, get the counter snipers there two days?

38:10They usually have five to six days to do their plan. Two days. So it was a total wreck. Their plan, too. But they should. I don't know. They should. But if you would, honestly, I hate to say this, but it does feel like it. If you had given a group of Boy Scouts basic intelligence about how this was all set up, they would have thought, oh, well, we should make sure to secure that line of sight from a rooftop to the president and not put snipers somewhere where their view is obscured from that rooftop. It's so common sense. And yet the United States Secret Service failed in this way. And so to this day, other than the Secret Service director herself, who was shamed into resignation, is basically no leaders have been held accountable.

38:49It's been all Indians, no chiefs. Is that right? That's absolutely correct. And Ron Rowe, I just reported over the weekend exclusively, got a job at the Chertoff Group. As you know, Michael Chertoff was the first Homeland Security, second, sorry, Homeland Security Secretary we had under George Bush, and then he served under Barack Obama as well. So it's very swampy. So he's getting off like these Secret Service agents who care about their agency are incensed. There is a new petition circulating or revised petition saying, you know, what is this? Cheadle is worth$10 million, supposedly. She's sitting pretty.

39:26She's denying what Grassley put in his report and Rand Paul put in his report that she denied repeatedly assets to Donald Trump's campaign because he was a former president. She's denying that. How can she? That is just absurd to me. There's no way. It's all in the reports. She denied drone technology to numerous rallies. We know that's a serious problem because there's a video from the Iranians that they simulate a drone attack on Donald Trump at a golf course that was out in 2022. So there's no way she can claim that she did not. That's one thing that Sean Curran did really right. He did it.

40:07He pushed back on those. He kept pushing back and pushing back and keeping the receipts. on all these denials of security assets for Donald Trump over the course of a year. Susan, one thing that continues to stand out to me, and you and I have talked about this before, I believe that Jill Biden is the reason President Trump's life was in peril in Butler a year ago, because she was holding an event concurrently, an indoor event, far easier to secure.

40:36Dan Bongino:And the Secret Service, correct me if I'm wrong, was expending lots of resources for her and fewer resources for President Trump, who was in a much more vulnerable position. Yes, I was the first to report that on J-14. So, yes, absolutely. And I was told by the Secret Service, you are really wrong. And right on to my ex.com account, so Fox and everybody else picked that up. And I had this cloud going into the RNC convention that I was really wrong. Well, guess what? By the end of that week, Senator Grassley came out and verified everything I had reported and more and saying that they had Jill Biden's small indoor event.

41:17It's an Italian-American dinner that would not require much security. They had three to four times the post standards. That's like the elementary job at the Secret Service. You just stand there and you look around. They still won't provide the Secret Service Tuesday, still won't provide a complete breakdown of the assets that Jill Biden had compared to the assets that Trump had at that rally. But we know that he was facing an Iranian threat. Well, we've known that forever, but he was facing an acute Iranian threat. And they knew that 10 days before the rally. That's another big element, the news that came out this weekend in the Grassley report.

41:55And 10 days beforehand, even though they had that 10 days beforehand, the next day at the Doral, Florida, Trump rally, they didn't have any countersnipers. But suddenly they found countersnipers for the Butler rally. So they were denying him all along. And this is a serious problem. And the fact that Cheadle is lying, according to these senator Senate reports, she should be held in contempt of Congress for lying to Congress. Well, and the Jill Biden story is thicker than merely that her rally was better protected. Her indoor event was better protected. Kim Cheadle was hand selected by Jill Biden to be the Secret Service director, correct?

42:42Correct. Some of her wealth is she owes to Joe Biden, Jill Biden. And because, yes, she was given that role. Joe Biden helped her get a role. She was very close to her when she was on the vice presidential detail. Chita was on the vice presidential detail when Joe Biden was president. So Jill Biden got closer and then she got her a job was instrumental at PepsiCo afterwards, providing security, running security for them. This is what these Secret Service agents do after they retire. They go to lucrative jobs if they're good and they have had a long career. Well, Cheadle did that. She made a ton of money, from what I understand.

43:19And now she's now she's trying to say that she has no culpability. Yes, she was extremely close to Jill Biden. And if politics played a role in this, I don't believe that it could not. treating Donald Trump as a former president and denying him security assets because of that is a joke. And any logical person, like you said, a Boy Scout would say that's a joke. He broke the mold. He's holding the biggest rallies we've seen, outdoor rallies, and he's facing an Iranian threat. What the heck are you thinking using that outmoded? But guess what? They didn't stop using that outmoded belief system protocol.

43:58They have it in their suspension records of these Pittsburgh field office. They still use, oh, well, as a former president, the Pittsburgh field office, the field offices is held mostly responsible. The Pittsburgh field office is taking a fall for this. Their supervisors got suspended, but the Donald Trump supervisors didn't get suspended. The campaign supervisor, the inspector, he got a promotion. This is, I mean, there's so many outrageous things that I found in these reports and then I've been reporting along. It was like, I hate to say it was a solemn day yesterday. And I recognize that. But it was like Christmas in July for me because I was going through all of these things that I had been reporting on.

44:44And I got verification finally on all my reports, many of which the Secret Service was flat out, I'll say, prevaricating to be nice. Yes. Okay. Okay. So since then, it's been a struggle to get answers, not just for you and for the public, but also for the president of the United States. Earlier this year, he indicated to Fox that he was not satisfied with the progress of the investigation into how that attack went down in Butler. Although going into this weekend, he did tell his daughter-in-law, Laura Trump, that he is now satisfied. I want people to see this clip and I'll get your reaction to it on the other side.

45:18Here's cut six. The president of the United States saying he is now satisfied with the answers he's getting out of his own government. Take a look. So they briefed me numerous times. The FBI, the Secret Service, sort of everybody. DOJ, Pamela's doing a fantastic, I think she's doing a fantastic job. But they briefed me and I'm satisfied with it. I'm satisfied with it. They should have had somebody in the building. That was a mistake. They should have had communications with the local police. They weren't tied in. and they should have been tied in. So there were mistakes made and that shouldn't have happened.

45:57And that building was a prime building in terms of what they were trying to do. But I was satisfied in terms of the bigger plot, the larger plot. I was satisfied. And I have great confidence in these people. I know the people. They're very talented, very capable. They had a bad day and I think they'll admit that. I had a rough day. This is a very dangerous job being president. Do you think the president's being too generous in this assessment, or do you think they've actually given him a clear picture now? I don't think the president could have spent the year that I've spent reporting on this in granular detail.

46:36I know that they've made improvements. I'm happy about that. We all should be commending those improvements, but we all should be looking for the holes in the situation too. And from what I understand, there are still problems with the counter-stipers. They're not partnering with local law enforcement. They're supposed to be partnering, pairing with them so that there's no communication problems whatsoever. There are still major DEI problems going on at the Secret Service. There's a huge retention problem and the low morale that keeps happening. I had agents telling me that Helen Comparatory, and I posted this on my ex-account, should be suing them and they have she has to be working with a secret service agent to former secret service agent to troubleshoot the what they tell you because it's always just so parsed like a lawyer at the secret service you have to know exactly what question to ask them because it's semantics all the time with them why wouldn't they give her a brief she's been asking for it she said she wants just a brief from the secret service i would think that that would be the most elementary courtesy you could possibly give to the grieving widow of Corey Comparator.

47:45Why aren't they doing that? They're doing it now after she came out this week. I know that last week with that. Why didn't it occur to them to do it on their own? I mean, this is leadership skills that you need as a Secret Service head of Secret Service. I don't know, but I think I know the agents are incensed about that. And they say they owe it to her, to the memory of Corey Comparatory, to get to the bottom of some of the problems still plaguing the Secret Service. Now, I do give them credit. I know they have upped their drone game. I know they no longer have this ridiculous thing that a former president doesn't get the assets.

48:26Well, that's irrelevant now. We need to focus on how we're going to save Donald President Trump's life and keep him safe when there's an acute Iranian threat. So acute that the Iranians are bragging that they could drone him when he's sunbathing at Mar-a-Lago just recently, just last week. So this we need to up our game. The Secret Service needs to stop worrying about and running around trying to have witch hunts for my sources, on my sources and spending an inordinate amount of time threatening people from talking about things and taking legal action against them and spending more time being transparent with both Congress and journalists.

49:08I don't care if they want to tell Congress first. That's fine with me. Whatever you want to do, but answer our questions. There's been outstanding questions. And they, you know, I had questions into them on Thursday, a whole series, and they did not provide Wednesday. Sorry. And they did not provide the answers. And they just put out a big press release, not answering my questions about retention problems, DEI policies, a whole host of issues. You know, there's been several DEI incidents that I've been reporting on a catfight outside of the secrets of the President Obama's residence just a month ago where these two agents were getting into it.

49:45They sent LGBTQ plus agents to a summit, a pride summit at Disneyland in the middle of their crying foul over. They don't have enough people. Last October, they were going to send agents, but from what I understand, or more people, because I reported on that, they didn't do it. There was a breastfeeding incident on a security site that Donald Trump was flying into five minutes before a female agent was breastfeeding. I mean, it goes on and on. I haven't reported some of the details because they're so, it's sickening. Some of the details are tawdry, okay, that I reported on. And I've told them this.

50:29I'm not reporting on. I'm trying to work with you. I know every big organization has bad apples, okay? But, you know, you've got to work with the journalists. You've got to work with Congress. Yes. Why did it take them July 1st till July 1st? Some of these suspension records, you look at the bottom, and they weren't signed till July 3rd. The subpoena from Rand Paul came July 1st. This year? Yes. Yes. Okay.

50:55Dan Bongino:That was like days ago. Yeah. They were still negotiating some of these suspensions and probably with the lawyers trying to get them down. and you know so they only they only out unpaid leave 10 to 42 days that's a slap on the wrist big time big time well look if you're the secret service and you are actually making positive changes that are going to improve the quality of the security of the president of the united states and all your protectees that's a story you're going to want to tell and i highly recommend it you tell it with someone who has a lot of credibility susan crabtree so please reach out to her and tell us about all your great progress susan crabtree thank you as always for digging in and for staying tenacious.

51:32Dan Bongino:Love having you on. Thanks for your interest. And you too, Vince. You've always been dogged. Thank you very much, Susan. There she is, the great Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics. She has been digging in here to get to the bottom of this. Bilk1 says, Dan Bongino should move to Secret Service director. I think he has enough hats right now. But I don't know. Marco Rubio has like 10 different jobs. Can you be both deputy director of the FBI and Secret Service director? Maybe. Maybe. We'll see. um speaking of agents at Disneyland did you guys see did you see J.D. Vance went to Disneyland with the family this weekend and they had Secret Service agents with him take a look here cut 12 J.D.

52:13Dan Bongino:Vance visiting Disneyland and he was on the flume ride is that what we see here oh no he's just being heckled rather people screaming at him but there he is he's walking around Disneyland He's got secret service agents all around him. I was cracking up this weekend because I saw a picture of, I saw a video of him riding the flume ride at Disneyland. Here, let me see if I can pull this up for you. Take a look at this. Here's J.D. Vance on Tiana's Bayou at Disneyland. There he is. And in the flume with him and his child are secret service agents. You can tell by their earpieces as they have to get out of the flume.

52:58Dan Bongino:Could you imagine? How funny is that? You've got to, you're in the flume ride. You have the secret service agents have to ride with you. I want to see the pictures from the drop. You know, every good flume ride has a big drop where you, you go down and then all the cameras start taking pictures of you. They try and make you overpay for them as you get off the ride. I want to see the faces of the secret service agents as they're going down the drop. So anyway, that's J.D. Vance having a good time at Disneyland this weekend. He is allowed to have a break every so often, and that was cool to see.

53:27Dan Bongino:The left was, of course, attacking him because nothing nice is allowed to happen to J.D. Vance. He's not allowed to enjoy his life or spend any of his time with his family at Disneyland. Hey, here's one other big piece, and we're going to spend more time talking about this because it's just such a massive story. The New York Times today has an interview that they've posted with Joseph Robinette Biden, you know, President Autopen. Biden says he made the clemency decisions that were recorded with Autopen. That's what the Times transcribes today. What they're saying in this piece is that Biden got on the phone with a couple of New York Times reporters for 10 minutes.

54:0910 minutes that's it quick quick conversation barely any time to ask any questions and then he was off the phone so biden world put him on the phone for a second and when he was on the phone he claimed quote i made every decision i made every decision and he asserted that he had his staff use the auto pen replicating his signature on clemency warrants because quote we're talking about a whole lot of people.

54:39Dan Bongino:In this piece, they say that there's a fellow called Jeff Zients, who was Biden's chief of staff, who handled a lot of these things. The auto pen was managed by Mr. Biden's White House staff secretary, a woman called Ms. Feldman. Ms. Feldman was managing the auto pen. She wanted to receive written accounts confirming that Biden had given oral instructions in meetings before they used it to produce the warrants recording the clemency actions, the emails show. Okay. So as I explain this, listen to the number of people who were involved in the chain of custody here. The number of people who are insisting, it's a big trust me bro chain.

55:23Oh yeah, no, no, Biden wants you to sign this.

55:26Dan Bongino:Biden said so. The aides refer to those written accounts of meetings at which Mr. Biden delivered oral decisions as blurbs. Blurbs. The accounts were drafted by aides to the senior advisors who are participated in the key meetings. That would be like Mr. Biden's chief of staff, Jeff Zients and Mr. Siskel. So these these top officials, this is what they're telling you. The top officials, guys like Jeff Zients, would be in a meeting with Joe and then they would leave the meeting. They would tell an aide, an assistant, hey, Joe definitely said, use the auto pen to pardon his entire family, to pardon Anthony Fauci.

56:03He definitely said that. So the assistants who then drafted the blurbs were not even in the room with Mr.

56:09Dan Bongino:Biden, according to the lists of meeting participants. The emails The New York Times has seen imply that Mr. Siskel and Mr. Zients relayed what Mr. Biden had said to the assistants who then documented it. the assistants circulated the drafts back to Mr. Siskel and Mr. Zients and other meeting participants before they sent them off to Ms. Feldman again copying the meeting participants and then they just said okay go ahead use the auto pen use it all right so so Biden was barely involved in any of this and then that brings us to January 19th in this article January 19th January 19th is the night before the inauguration of President Trump.

56:57Dan Bongino:Mr. Biden completed a list of high-profile clemency decisions over two meetings, the emails show. One on January 18th included Mr. Zients, Mr. Siskel, and another aide, Bruce Reed. Another on the evening of January 19th, his final night as president was with Mr. Siskel, Mr. Reed, and three other top aides, Anthony Bernal, Steve Reschetti, and Anthony Tomasini. The emails show that Mr. Biden added preemptive pardons for his family at the January 19th meeting. They also suggest that he changed some of his thinking. Among the people that were pardoned as a result of this was Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci.

57:40They pardoned Mark Milley. They pardoned Fauci. They pardoned the January 6th committee people, all receiving pardons. And so what you have here is a scam. They put Joe Biden on the phone and say, Biden, tell them that you knew everything. Oh, I knew everything. And then they see these emails and

58:01Dan Bongino:it shows that they were laundering these auto pen sign offs, that there were a bunch of different people involved. They're just claiming, well, Joe definitely was in on this. Yet the meetings are taking place at 1030 at night on January 19th, the New York Times reports that they were having meetings at 1030 at night. Do you believe for a second that Joe Biden was awake at 1030 p.m. on January 19th of 2025? Come on. The guy could barely do the job from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. He wasn't up at 1030 at night. These guys were freelancing. They were wielding the power of the presidency in their own way.

58:43And so we get that update today, a 10 minute interview with Joe Biden. Oh, go ahead. Tell them, Joe. Tell them it was you the whole time.

58:51Dan Bongino:I'm just here to remind you, don't believe this crap for a moment. Don't believe it for a moment. We'll keep following it as it develops. Whatever comes out today, including at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we'll continue to track all the details. There is a lot going on right now. There's a lot going on, which means you and I are going to have another big conversation tomorrow on Vince. Good to have you with me today. I've got the big national radio show coming up from 12 to 3 Eastern today. Find your local listings at thevincshow.com or just come to rumble.com slash Vince. That's where you can watch me live.

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