Dan Bongino - Follow the Money: The Shocking Deep State Connections of the Anti-Trump Cabal

ALSO BY DAN BONGINO

Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump

Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Trump by the Swamp

A POST HILL PRESS BOOK

Follow the Money:

The Shocking Deep State Connections of the Anti-Trump Cabal

2020 by Dan Bongino

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CONTENTS

The Attempted Destruction
of General Mike Flynn

The China CrisisHow Beijing
Turned a Virus Into an Act of War

I m going to start in the two places I ended my last book: Ukraine and Washington, DC.

Those are the locations where a group I call the Scandal Manufacturers of America (SMA) sources its best material.

The SMA is the unofficial coalition of crybaby Democrats, holier-than-thou liberal media pundits, and delusional Never-Trumpers who have dedicated themselves to the takedown of the elected president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

Ive already devoted two books to documenting and dismantling the SMAs work. The first, Spygate , revealed how this group manufactured a bogus Russia-collusion story, which, fortunately, failed to stop or discredit the election of Trump. The second, Exonerated , documented the plug-and-play efforts by Clinton operatives and senior law enforcement officials in the FBI and the Department of Justice to remove Trump from office by fabricating and laundering misleading evidence of a supposed conspiracy. As the world now knows, special prosecutor Robert Muellers mission to uncover that evidence was an utter failure. For the record, much of that second books assertions about FBI and special investigator chicanery have been proven correct in a report issued by the Department of Justices Inspector General Michael Horowitz. That report concluded that applications used to obtain warrants used by the FBI to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page contained seventeen major errors and omissions.

As for the infamous Steele dossier, the collection of fabrications, rumors, and lies about the Trump campaign, Horowitz concluded, the FBI failed to reassess the Steele reporting relied upon in the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] applications, and did not fully advise the [National Security Division] or [Office of Intelligence]. We also found that the FBI did not aggressively seek to obtain certain potentially important information from Steele.

Undaunted by two elaborate failures, the shameless Scandal Manufacturers of America pivoted to a new chapter in its senseless saga. Just months after the pointless Mueller probe came to an end, they decided to waste thousands of man-hours paralyzing Capitol Hill by launching impeachment proceedings to remove the president. As everyone knows, Ukraine was at the center of that effort.

Or should I say, failed effort?

Ill get into the absurdity of the impeachment case mounted against the president, but lets zoom in on Ukraine. Why is this nation so important? Why is it a magnet for trouble? Why should a few sentences from the president of the United States to his counterpart in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky, detonate hand-wringing, sky-is-falling statements about the collapse of our republic?

Trump was doing what presidents do. But here are some quotes from the Ukraine experts trotted out by Adam Schiffs House Intelligence Committee to expose the so-called heinous behavior of the president. Lets see if these excerpts fully explain this Eastern European enigma.

Ukraine is a battleground for great power competition, with a hot war for the control of territory and a hybrid war to control Ukraines leadership. former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch

Ukraine is a genuine and vibrant democracy and an example to other post-Soviet countries and beyondfrom Moscow to Hong Kong. David Holmes, Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Ukraine

Ukraine is a valued partner of the United States, and it plays an important role in our national security. Fiona Hill, Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs, National Security Council

Ukraine is making progress. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, Director for European Affairs, National Security Council

The most accurate and honest description of Ukraine that I heard during the hearings didnt actually come from the hearings. It came from a Seinfeld episode that someone emailed me. You dont have to be a fan of that particular sitcom to appreciate the prophetic political analysis that aired on January 19, 1995. In the key scene, Kramer, the shows tall, gangly hipster, is playing the board game Risk on the subwaya funny image in and of itselfand hes taunting his opponent. You know what Ukraine is? he laughs. Its a sitting duck. Its a road-apple.

At least that is in the ballpark. Ukraine is a lot of things, obviously. Its a country populated by wonderful, hard-working people who are desperate for honest leadership. Yet, the Ukrainians have been consistently let down by a broken political class eager for power and riches, and lacking in the one trait that could turn the political tide: morality. The experts on the Hill werent actually wrong with their passing summaries. But they werent right, either. They didnt tell the whole picture. As we dig deeper and deeper into the story and unravel the corrupt connections surrounding this chaotic country, no description may be more accurate than the one the creatures of the DC swamp should have offered under oath:

Ukraine is a giant, twenty-four-hour ATM. A broken slot machine that spewed out money to greedy politicos, lobbyists, and, yes, a son of the vice president of the United States.

That would have been accurate. Maybe not so much right now, when everyone is on their best behavior with the spotlight on Kyiv. But understanding the vast, money-printing, influence-peddling, backstabbing, dog-eat-dog corruption of Ukraine would have helped the world understand why Donald Trump was having the conversation that set off the entire, absurd, impeachment charade.

Ukraine was an influence-peddling paradise. It was vital to Russian interests.

It was vital to American interests.

And that made it vital to anyone with self-interests in generating cash.

By now, Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden, is the most famous of these human handout homing devices. But there were many swamp ratsfrom both sides of the aislewho swooped into Kyiv to make mega-withdrawals. Ive documented a bunch of this, but we now know far more about the players and the sinister connections many of them shared.

Lets start with the man who is really ground zero for all the manufactured Trump scandals: Paul Manafort.

Seriously. Im not here to defend Manafort. He brought damaging baggage with him to the Trump campaignserving first as a consultant and then the campaign chairmanand it cast a toxic shadow over the candidates entire organization. Collusion hoaxers were all too happy to leverage Manaforts shady dealings for political gain. In Exonerated, I explained how and why Manaforts presence raised huge flags for Fusion GPS, the company hired by Hillary Clintons campaign to conduct opposition researchhis links to Putins pals, billionaire Oleg Deripaska, and former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych were suspect.