White House Whistleblower - Alleges Job Biden Committed Criminal Acts in front of Him

Summary

The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson: Detailed Summary

Episode Title: White House Whistleblower - Alleges Joe Biden Committed Criminal Acts in front of Him
Release Date: April 14, 2023
Host: Ben Ferguson
Guest: Senator Ted Cruz
Duration: 31 minutes
Transcript Provided: [00:01] to [33:25]

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1. Introduction to the Whistleblower Allegations

Timestamp: 00:01 - 02:11

Ben Ferguson opens the episode by highlighting a significant yet underreported story: an ex-Obama administration stenographer, Mike McCormick, has come forward with serious allegations against President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. According to McCormick, Hunter Biden's involvement with Burisma Holdings has led to malfeasance in office aimed at enriching the Biden family.

Notable Quote:

Ben Ferguson [00:01]: "An ex Obama staffer, a stenographer, has blown the whistle on Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and a kickback scheme."

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2. Senator Ted Cruz Discusses Mike McCormick's Allegations

Timestamp: 00:44 - 06:59

Senator Ted Cruz delves into the credibility of Mike McCormick's claims, emphasizing his 15-year tenure in the White House and direct exposure to key figures like Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan. Cruz underscores the severity of the allegations, noting McCormick's attempts to involve the FBI, which have reportedly been ignored.

Notable Quotes:

Senator Ted Cruz [00:44]: "This individual worked in the White House for 15 years... He has filed a formal complaint, a whistleblower complaint, with the FBI. The FBI has ignored him."

Senator Ted Cruz [01:55]: "This is truly stunning. It is dismaying."

Cruz criticizes the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland, suggesting it has become highly politicized and indifferent to evidence of corruption involving the current president.

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3. Mike McCormick's Testimony on the Alleged Corruption

Timestamp: 02:11 - 04:07

Mike McCormick joins the conversation to provide firsthand accounts of what he witnessed. He describes being present on Air Force Two during discussions that allegedly linked U.S. taxpayer money to Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas conglomerate where Hunter Biden served on the board.

Notable Quotes:

Mike McCormick [02:25]: "Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family."

Senator Ted Cruz [04:07]: "This whistleblower from a man that clearly had been there in the room and had been doing this for more than a decade?"

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4. Comparison to Tony Bobulinski's Whistleblower Case

Timestamp: 06:59 - 26:20

Ben Ferguson draws parallels between McCormick's experience and that of Tony Bobulinski, another whistleblower who exposed alleged corruption within the Biden family’s business dealings. Bobulinski's case is presented to illustrate the pattern of the FBI's perceived inaction towards whistleblowers.

Notable Quotes:

Ben Ferguson [06:59]: "This reminds me of Tony Bobulinski when he came out as a whistleblower right before the election."

Tony Bobulinski [09:02]: "In that email, there's a statement where they go through the equity. Jim Biden's referenced... It's crystal clear to me because I lived it."

Senator Cruz emphasizes the credibility of both whistleblowers, highlighting their direct involvement and the gravity of their testimonies. He argues that the lack of response from the Department of Justice signifies a broader issue of political bias.

Notable Quote:

Senator Ted Cruz [26:20]: "This is not news they're willing to cover and contrast the two."

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5. Senator Cruz's Critique of Department of Justice and Media Bias

Timestamp: 16:00 - 25:39

Senator Cruz criticizes the Department of Justice for its alleged negligence in addressing the whistleblower allegations against the Bidens. He contrasts this with the proactive stance taken by the FBI and media against former President Donald Trump, suggesting a double standard rooted in partisan bias.

Notable Quotes:

Senator Ted Cruz [18:07]: "Vice President Biden led our efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine."

Senator Ted Cruz [22:49]: "Democrats will do anything to make sure the Bidens are protected from answering questions."

Cruz accuses mainstream media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post of ignoring these allegations to maintain their political narratives, thereby shielding the Bidens from scrutiny.

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6. The Role of Partisanship in Suppressing Whistleblower Reports

Timestamp: 25:39 - 33:25

The discussion culminates with Cruz elaborating on how entrenched partisanship within the Department of Justice and media organizations undermines the pursuit of justice. He underscores that serious whistleblower claims are sidelined unless they align with specific political agendas, emphasizing the systemic issues at play.

Notable Quotes:

Senator Ted Cruz [25:39]: "These are witnesses. Bobulinski was a business partner... yet this is not news they're willing to cover."

Senator Ted Cruz [33:11]: "Donald Trump being indicted when even SNL is making fun of CNN and the corporate media for being utterly corrupt and in bed with Trump."

Cruz concludes by highlighting the media's failure to report on these significant allegations when they conflict with prevailing political narratives, thereby impeding accountability.

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Conclusion

The episode of The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson presents a compelling discussion centered around whistleblower allegations against President Joe Biden and his administration. Through Senator Ted Cruz's insights and the testimonies of whistleblowers like Mike McCormick and Tony Bobulinski, the podcast underscores perceived systemic biases within the Department of Justice and mainstream media. The conversation raises critical questions about transparency, accountability, and the influence of partisanship in political and judicial processes.

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Transcript

[Ben Ferguson]

Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you. Senator. The headline that basically no one's seen because the media has a run away from it is an ex Obama staffer, a stenographer, has blown the whistle on Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and a kickback scheme. His words. After Hunter joined Burisma, he said this was, quote, malfeasance in office. And I'm going to play for everyone what he said. But he says he has reached out to the FBI and he has heard nothing for them from them as a whistleblower, your initial reaction?

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Well, I think it's a very concerning allegation. It is an allegation with significant indicia of credibility. This individual worked in the White House for 15 years. He was a stenographer. He was on Air Force Two with then Vice President Joe Biden. And he has filed a formal complaint, a whistleblower complaint, with the FBI. The FBI has ignored him. Here's what this individual, the Obama White house official, Mike McCormick, said, quote, In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that and you're lying to them, you go to jail. I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth and I'm not going to jail. And he continued saying, quote, joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan, who's the current National Security Advisor, is a conspirator in that. And there's more Obama officials involved in it, I believe here. Listen to what he said describing his whistleblower complaint that the entire corporate media is ignoring.

[Ben Ferguson]

Meantime, a former Obama White House official says he wants to testify to a federal grand jury because he says he has information about then Vice President Joe Biden's role in his son Hunter's business. But he says the FBI has been ignoring him.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Former Obama stenographer Mike McCormick joins us now. Mike, thanks for being here. You say you are a witness to a crime. Walk us through why you say that.

[Mike McCormick]

Yes.

[Ashley]

Hi, Ashley.

[Ben Ferguson]

Hi, Todd.

[Mike McCormick]

Thanks for having me.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Sure.

[Mike McCormick]

So in April 2014, I was an Air Force Two with Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan. At the time, no one knew that Hunter Biden was already on the board of Burisma holdings, the natural gas conglomerate from Ukraine. Joe Biden is directing Jake Sullivan in the front of the plane. What to say to the press. My job as a stenographer on the plane is to record what the vice president or a senior administration official says to the press. So I'm Sitting back there with the tape recorder. Jake Sullivan comes back and somebody asked him about fracking. His answer is, well, we're bringing a lot of American assistance over for fracking. Burisma was the direct beneficiary of that fracking. And that's what I recorded. And that's in a White House transcript. In the transcript, you don't know who Jake Sullivan is. It's a senior administration official. I'm the witness that says Jake Sullivan is the guy who said it and he should be investigated because at the time, Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma and Joe Biden is bringing American taxpayer money to enrich that company and himself and his family.

[Ben Ferguson]

Senator, you hear this. He says it's in a transcript. He's the sonographer that did the transcript. People don't realize a senior level, you know, White House staffer is Jake Sullivan. How damning is this evidence and testimony, in essence, whistleblowing from a man that clearly had been there in the room and had been doing this for more than a decade?

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Well, it's extremely concerning on multiple levels. On one level, this is a White House official who is sitting on Air Force Two with the Vice President and with the individual, Jake Sullivan, who is right now the National Security Advisor to Joe Biden, the President. He is alleging criminal conduct by both of them. On the face of it, that's got that, that's got real force. But you then go to the next step, which is that he raised this to the FBI months ago and he says the FBI hasn't talked to him, hasn't interviewed him, hasn't put him before a grand jury, has had zero interest in what he has to say. Now pause and reflect. The last podcast you and I did, we talked about how the FBI is placing undercover agents inside of Catholic churches to spy on Catholics who are people of faith and are religious. They've got the time and resources, apparently to try to infiltrate the Catholic Church and try to flip clergy to spy on their parishioners for them. But the Biden Department of Justice apparently has zero time to even talk to a 15 year White House veteran alleging criminal conduct. That is truly stunning. It is dismaying. And I gotta say, look, this reminds me of a lot of the topics we cover on Verdict, because in any sane world, this would be on the 6:00 news. In any sane world, you wouldn't be hearing about this for the first time right now on this podcast. Now maybe you watched Fox and Friends this week and so you saw the interview. That's about the only other place you'd hear this because if you watch cnn, this whistleblower doesn't exist. If you watch msnbc, nothing to see here. Abc, NBC, cbs, they do not cover news. This also, look, we've talked at length about the Biden Department of Justice under Merrick Garland and they have leaked that they're investigating Hunter Biden. The relevant question has always been is that investigation to hold Hunter out as a scapegoat and make it about his personal substance abuse issues or are they willing to examine the corruption that implicates his father? The fact that they won't even talk to this witness, it tells you something really powerful, that this is sadly an incredibly political Department of Justice that has no interest in even beginning to examine the growing pile of evidence of corruption by the current president of the United States.

[Ben Ferguson]

This reminds me, Senator, and I want to play this real quick. It reminds me of Tony Bobulinski when he came out as a whistleblower right before the election. And then finally because he came out as a whistleblower, the FBI said, all right, come on in, we want to talk to you. And they did nothing with what he told them after the fact. I'm going to play and just remind people of what Tony Bobulinsky had and could verify from Hunter Biden's laptop. Before we do that, let me tell you though about our good friends over to Gust of Precious Metals. Buying gold right now and silver for a lot of people is very appealing because of the ups and downs and the insanity in the economy. You know what's happening with interest rates. You've seen what's happening with inflation. That and you've seen what's been happening even with banks recently. If you have saved $100,000 or more in your retirement, Augusta Precious Metals wants to sit down with you and they want to talk to you about if gold and silver can help protect your hard earned dollars. Whether you're close to retirement or in retirement, you know one thing is true. You don't have time to make up losses. And that's where gold and silver come in. Now they also are going to pay you in pure gold just to learn about their gold IRAs and that and how they can protect you. That's a big deal. A pure gold coin for free. Reach out to Augusta Precious Metals today and get started with gold. Don't let the bank failures get you down. Get this free gold and get some peace of mind at the same time. 8, 7, 7, 4 Gold IRA. 8, 7 7, the number 4 Gold IRA to learn how to protect your retirement and get your free gold coin. That's Augusta precious metals.com877 the number four gold IRA center. Tony Bobulinski, when he sat down and did one of his first big interviews, it wasn't that he was just confirming everything that Hunter Biden did. He was confirming who the big guy was. He was confirming these. These business deals with cdfe and. And he did these interviews because the FBI wasn't doing their job.

[Tony Bobulinski]

I didn't generate that email. James Gilliard generated that email. And in that email, James Gilliard goes through intimate detail of what each individual's requests were from a compensation perspective and how the equity in the enterprise would be divvied up. Very important. May 13th. That email was generated by somebody else. To me, in that email, there's a statement where they go through the equity. Jim Biden's referenced As, you know, 10% doesn't say Biden. It says Jim. And then it has 10% for the big guy held by H I 1000%. Sit here and know that the big guy is referencing Joe Biden. That's crystal clear to me because I lived it. I met with the former vice president in person multiple times. And I had been meeting and talking with Hunter Biden and Jim Biden and Rob Walker and James Gilliard. Where the media has tried to hide, and I personally feel it's disgusting, is between that May 13 email and the final document that was executed called Oneida Holdings LLC. In Oneida Holdings LLC, the equity is broken up 20% Hunter Biden, 20% Jim Biden. Well, there are LLC that represented them.

[Ben Ferguson]

Right?

[Tony Bobulinski]

20% James Gillier, 20% Rob Walker and 20% me and my investment entity. What I'd ask the American people to read and look at is how from May 13 to the final Oneida document that got executed, did Jim Biden go from a 10% owner to a 20% owner?

[Ben Ferguson]

I mean, Senator, these are two people with very clear specifics. Tony Bobulinski whistleblowed. He meets with the FBI. The FBI agent who was supposed to be his, quote, point of contact, we now know as a disgraced FBI agent who did nothing but actually try to say that this was a smear campaign against the Bidens and to shut it down as disinformation. What Tony Bobulinski said. Now you got a stenographer saying, I witnessed a crime. And I can tell you there was other officials there that witnessed it, too. I. I'm the one that did the notes. And the FBI doesn't even talk to him.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Well, and it's worth underscoring that both of these witnesses are serious, credible whistleblowers. Bobulinski was business partners with Hunter Biden, with. With Joe Biden's brothers. He was actively involved in these business organizations. And he's testifying about the crime he witnessed firsthand. This stenographer spent 15 years in the White House. He wasn't out on the periphery. He was sitting on Air Force Two with Joe Biden, with Jake Sullivan. And the fact that under Merrick Garland, the Department of justice has zero interest in hearing this. They're like the three monkeys. Hear no evil, see no evil. They do say evil, but they don't want to hear or see it. And I got to say, it reminds me also of earlier allegations. These are not new allegations of corruption and conflict of interest. Hunter Biden and Joe Biden have been facing these allegations for a decade. And I want to want to remind you, back of questioning that I question George Kent. Now, who is George Kent? George Kent is currently the Biden ambassador to Estonia. And George Kent has been a career foreign service officer, and he was the US Deputy Chief of Mission in Ukraine from 2015 to 2018. Now, George Kent had a moment of fame because he was a witness in Trump's impeachment. And he sat there with his bow tie expressing great dislike for Donald Trump. And so the left got all excited about George Kent. But before he became a star witness in Trump's impeachment, George Kent had one brief moment of courage and clarity where he raised directly to the Obama White House his concerns about Hunter Biden's conflict of interest concerning Burisma. The exact same topic, by the way, this new whistleblower is talking about. And I gotta tell you, the reaction. That committee was chaired by Jeanne Shaheen, the Democrat from New Hampshire. It was a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And she did not want him to answer these questions. We had some real fireworks. And so, Ben, I think play the entire questioning. It's extended, but I think it is worth revisiting because like this whistleblower this week, the corrupt corporate media completely ignored it. Because if it doesn't fit their political narrative, it does not exist and they refuse to report on it.

[Ben Ferguson]

Take a listen to this. And this was back November 29, 2022. Here it is.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Thank you, Madam Chair. Welcome to each of the witnesses. Mr. Kent, you have been outspoken throughout your career speaking against corruption. And I want to talk about corruption. I want to talk in particular about corruption in the current administration. And I have serious Concerns about corruption of President Joe Biden that extends for considerable time both his time as President and his time as Vice President. To take one obvious and troubling example, accounts linked to the Biden family's personal finances received millions of dollars through ties to cefc China Energy. This is where we get the infamous quote, about 10% to the big guy from the Chinese Communists. But you've also been involved very directly with Ukraine and corruption in Ukraine. And I will say you showed real courage speaking out against what I think was the very obvious concerns of corruption of Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, in Ukraine in particular. On November 13, 2019, you testified to Congress that you had become concerned with Hunter Biden's status as a board member of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. You said you had raised those concerns to the White House in February of 2020, 15. And in particular what you said is, I became aware that Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma soon after that. In a briefing call with the National Security of the Office of the Vice President In February of 2015, I raised my concern that Hunter Biden's status as a board member could create a perception of a conflict of interest. Tell me, why did you have this concern about, as you described, a perception of a conflict of interest?

[Ashley]

Well, Senator, I can give you and every member of this committee my commitment that I will always raise concerns to members of any administration and to Congress when I have concerns. And so I was made aware of information and I passed that along to the staff of the office of the Vice President.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

So why were you concerned, why were you concerned about Hunter Biden being on the board of Burisma?

[Ashley]

The issue at hand was the owner of the company, Zlochevsky, had awarded himself gas contracts. And as I testified, both in the impeachment hearings and in the Johnson Grassley hearings of 2020, our concern was about the corrupt acts of Zlichevsky. The ex minister and the FBI had been pursuing freezing his assets. And it was in the interest of the United States to remain at the gold standard of our own actions.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

So the Ukrainian oligarch who owned Burisma, there was very substantial evidence of corruption on his part and he named Hunter Biden to his board of directors. To your knowledge, does Hunter Biden speak Ukrainian?

[Ashley]

I've never talked to Hunter Biden, no.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

To your knowledge, did he have any knowledge before serving on that board about anything concerning oil or natural gas?

[Ashley]

I'm not aware of his cv.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

To your knowledge, did Hunter Biden have any qualification whatsoever for that board job other than the fact that his daddy was the sitting vice president at the time.

[Ashley]

Senator, no one consulted me about who was on the board of Burisma. There was another American, Cofer Black, who was a former.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

I asked a question. To your knowledge, did Hunter Biden have any qualification to be on that board other than the job his daddy had?

[Ashley]

At the moment, I am not familiar with his resume, sir.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Okay. He was paid $83,000 a month by this Ukrainian oligarch. You're an expert in Ukraine. Have you ever been paid $83,000 a month?

[Ashley]

I'm a public servant, sir. I've never served on a corporate board.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

So does that mean no, you haven't been paid $83,000 a month?

[Ashley]

I have not been paid $83,000aMonth. No, sir.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

So, look, the concern here is not Hunter Biden's own problems, but rather it is official corruption from the then Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, and now the President of the United States, Joe Biden. Let me ask you, while his son was on the board of Burisma making a million dollars a year, did Joe Biden do anything that benefited the corrupt oligarch who was paying his son?

[Ashley]

Vice President Biden led our efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Let me ask you the question again. Did Vice President Joe Biden do anything that benefited the corrupt oligarch who was paying his son a million dollars a year?

[Ashley]

He did not.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

He did not. Well, it's interesting, someone who disagrees with you, Mr. Kent. Joe Biden. And I want to read from what he said on January 23, 2018, at the council of Foreign Relations. Quote, this is Joe Biden speaking. And I went over, I guess the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee and I'd gotten a commitment from Poroshenko, and yet that they would take action against the state prosecutor, the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma, and they didn't. So Biden continues. I said, no, I'm not going to. We're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You are not the president. The president said. I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars. I said, you're not getting the billion dollars. I'm going to be leaving here. And I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said, I'm leaving here in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the Money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. Let me ask you something. Do you think Joe Biden holding a billion dollars hostage to force the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor that is investigating the corrupt oligarch who's paying his son a million dollars a year did getting that prosecutor fired benefit that oligarch? Thank you, Senator Cruz. Senator VAN Are you going to allow him to answer the question? Madam Chairman, I am not going to allow him to answer the question. Why are you covering for the vice president? Do you not want to answer that question? He said that the vice president has nothing to benefit. I think it's unfortunate for you, Senator Cruz, to put in position that are uncomfortable the nominees to be our ambassadors.

[Ashley]

Okay.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

This is sworn testimony. This is sworn testimony. I understand that you want to cover for the vice President that he is going to raise those concerns anytime. Was his testimony true or false? Biden did nothing to benefit the oligarch.

[Ashley]

I don't.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Let him answer the question. Why are you afraid of him answering the question? I'm not. I just want to move on. But you won't let him answer. I asked a yes, no question. Will you allow him to answer the yes, no question? Yes. You can answer yes or no. Thank you.

[Ashley]

The prosecutor who was fired by the Ukrainian parliament did nothing to investigate Slutchevsky and everything that Vice President Biden, the State Department and the US Embassy did acted in good faith to reduce corruption and help the Ukrainian.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

So firing him did not benefit the. Thank you, Senator Cruz.

[Ben Ferguson]

I mean, Senator. That, that is. Welcome to the Congress. Right? This is. This is how much the Democrats will jump in to take fire on basic yes or no questions about the Biden corruption because they know how bad it is. But first, under. Before I get you to answer that, I got to tell everybody about our friends at chalk. If you are a guy and you're getting older and you feel like you're losing strength and vitality, you feel like you're getting a little bit weaker and complacent. You just don't have the energy that you had before. It is time for you to take the chalk. Mail Vitality stack. Why? Because it can help you boost your Testosterone up to 20% over 90 days. Now, I've been taking chalk now for about 90 days. I can tell you it works. It helps you maximize your masculinity by boosting your testosterone levels. We've seen in studies that testosterone levels for men or have gone off a cliff historically. So if you feel like you've lost some of that edge, check out chalk choq.com choq.com use my code, Ben, and you'll get 35% off any Chalk subscription for life. Plus you can cancel at any time. So go to chalk choq.com use a promo code, Ben. Grab the male vitality stack 35% off. Boost your testosterone up to 20% over 90 days. Senator, your reaction? As I said it again a moment ago, I'll say it again. Democrats will do anything to make sure the Bidens are protected from answering questions.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Well, that's exactly right. You could see Gene Shaheen desperately jump in there and not want him to answer the question. By the way, the question is obvious. Did firing the prosecutor who was investigating the corrupt oligarch who was paying Hunter Biden $1 million a year, did that benefit the corrupt oligarch? No kidding. Duh. And I gotta say, look, Kent is perfectly happy to be a Democrat partisan. So even though he raised it at the time, that little brief moment of courage went away and so he just tried to say no, it was perfectly fine. We saw nothing wrong with it now. But it said it speaks volumes how desperate Shaheen was to get in and say, no, no, no, don't answer, don't answer, don't answer, don't answer. With no substantive response. By the way, in that hearing, no Democrat senator jumped in and said, oh, the facts are different. Here's why that's wrong. By the way, in, in that hearing, her comment was, I think it's wrong for you to make a nominee feel uncomfortable. I'm sorry, I thought the Constitution provided that the Senate has advice and consent. And it becomes very clear she views her job as, as protecting the Biden White House from political problems. Because if she didn't view it that way, any fair minded senator would want the answer to that question. When you've got a whistleblower who's raised serious concerns about corruption, the Senate ought to be concerned about them. But today's Democratic senators, there's not a one of them who's concerned about them because their view is partisanship trumps everything else. And I gotta say, part of the reason they can have that attitude is the rabid partisanship the media. Listen, if you're a Democrat senator and you hear this Q and A, in a normal world where you have a media reporting on what happens, you'd be a little reluctant to jump in and seem like you're eager to cover up the wrongdoing. That is not a good look to put it mildly. But why is it that the Democrats are not worried about this. Well, it's very simple because they know, they know to a metaphysical certainty that CNN will never cover it, that MSNBC will never cover it, that the New York Times, the Washington Post, that the entire corrupt corporate media won't cover it because if it doesn't fit their political agenda, from their view, it doesn't exist.

[Ben Ferguson]

Yeah, that goes back to Tony Bobulinski. I mean, this is a guy that's an actually a human being that did business with Hunter Biden, had multiple meetings within Vice President Joe Biden, had meetings with James Biden. He was involved in the Biden crime family. And once he was involved, he got to see how it worked. He knew who the big guy was. And what did the FBI do. They, after they met with him, they tried to shut it down, where everything that Tony Bobulinski gave them could not be seen by anyone by saying, by labeling it as disinformation. It's not just they sat down with him, they then tried to cover up what he gave them.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Well, and contrast this to the behavior of the FBI, the behavior of the Department of Justice, and the behavior of the entire corrupt corporate media when it came to allegations against Donald Trump. When it came to the Steele dossier, something that was fantastical on its face, something that we now know was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the dnc, something that on the face of it, it was essentially rumors at a bar, some drunk guy going, well, you know, I think Trump is doing this. And every scurrilous allegation, no matter how flimsy, no matter how not backed up by the facts, would be echoed on the front pages of the New York Times breathlessly. And in contrast. Look, these are witnesses. Bobulinski was a business partner, was an active participant in what he is testifying is a criminal, essentially a criminal bribery scheme. The stenographer was a White house employee for 15 years, was physically in the room with the Vice President and today's national security advisors, and yet this is not news they're willing to cover and, and, and contrast the two. And let's be clear, the New York Times and the Washington Post both won Pulitzer Prizes for their false reporting on the Trump Russia collusion that turned out not to be Russia collusion, but that, that, that titillated the, the, the, the fantasies and made the hearts go pitter pat of leftists. And I got to say that it's gotten particularly funny. I don't know if you've seen that that Saturday Night Live, which, which sadly is not funny very often anymore, but snl has done a mocking ad for what they call CNN Zen, which is for leftists who hate Trump, that this plays soothing words from left wing, corrupt media commentators because they're so nervous they need to be soothed. And, and, and, and I gotta say, for our listeners, this is a good way we're gonna play you that SNL ad.

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He knows there are consequences, consequences, consequences. You can also listen to clips of Trump and his allies desperately spiraling.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Please, Donald J. Trump is an innocent man and he needs your help. Send him all your Money today @DonaldJTrumpru. Fundraising scam not guilty.

[Unnamed SNL Character]

Trump's next court appearance won't be till at least December. That's why CNZ has a whole section of Trump indictment asmr. Can you hear him getting fingerprinted and the DA opening his big leather briefcase? O and the little gavel from the judge. I wonder if he'll even hear Hands.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Cuffs.

[Unnamed SNL Character]

With additional in app purchases like audio erotica of District Attorney Alvin Bragg reading all 34 felony counts. Count one falsifying business records in the first degree. Count two falsified business records in the first degree. Count three falsified business couch isn't as.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Flimsy as the DA's case.

[Unnamed SNL Character]

CN Zen because you waited seven years for this indictment and you want every delicious detail. And what ethnicity is Trump's judge again? Hispanic. Cnz in your mind, he's already in jail.

[Ben Ferguson]

I mean, that may be one of my favorite skits from SNL center ever. And I can't actually believe they did this. Basically mocking the case. And also the psychos are obsessed with.

[Senator Ted Cruz]

Donald Trump being indicted when even SNL is making fun of CNN and the corporate media for being utterly corrupt and in bed with Trump. You know, it is obvious and undeniable.

[Ben Ferguson]

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