Tuesday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight was one for the ages, both in terms of content and ratings. The Tony Bobulinski interview embarrassed the liberal media’s willful censorship of Bobulinski painting the Biden family as corrupt and, in his words, “compromised.” For Wednesday’s show, Carlson had new audio to share, thoughts on the media black-out, and a disturbing incident in which new Biden documents “vanished.”
We’ll start with the documents. Carlson prefaced it as “something specific going on behind the scenes right now that we did feel we should tell you about,” which consisted of his team being given “authentic,” “damning,” and “real” “confidential documents” at the start of the week “related to the Biden family.”
But since Carlson was already in Los Angeles to tape the Bobulinski interview, he had a New York-based producer overnight them Monday afternoon using “a large, national carrier, brand-name company that we've used, you've used countless times with never a single problem.”
Then came the shocking revelation: “But the Biden documents never arrived in Los Angeles. Tuesday morning, we received word from the shipping company that our package had been opened and the contents were missing. The documents had disappeared.”
Before going to break, Carlson explained what happened next (click “expand”):
Now, to its credit, the company took this very seriously and immediately began a search. They traced the envelope from the moment our producers dropped it off in Manhattan on Monday all the way to 3:44 a.m. yesterday morning. That's when an employee at a sorting facility in another state noticed that our package was open and empty. Apparently, it had been opened.
So, the company’s security team interviewed every one of its employees who touched the envelope we sent. They searched the planes, and the trucks that carried it. They went through the office in New York where our producer dropped that package off. They combed the entire cavernous sorting facility. They used pictures of what we had sent, so that searchers would know what to look for. They went far and beyond, but they found nothing. Those documents have vanished. As of tonight, the company has no idea and no working theory even about what happened to this trove of materials, documents that are directly relevant to the presidential campaign, just six days from now. We spoke to executives at that company a few hours ago. They seemed baffled and deeply bothered by this. And so are we.
Rewinding to the top of the show, Carlson made note of the fact that, “in a normal country you probably already would have heard” Bobulinski’s “remarkable story” about the Biden family setting up business dealings with a company connected to one of America’s most sworn enemies in China.
But instead, Carlson acknowledged we’re not even getting Biden’s “version of the story...because no one in America's vast media landscape has pressed Joe Biden to answer the question” because, from top to bottom, “reporters...editors, and their publishers have openly collaborated with Joe Biden’s political campaign.”
Carlson added his interview was ignored by “the big papers,” and “other television networks,” underlining the fact that “[t]his is Soviet-style suppression of information of a legitimate news story days before an election.”
The FNC host then made clear that this represented what an actual “attack on our democracy” looked like and, in going to American Majority’s Ned Ryun, something beyond any previous liberal media bias debate we’ve witnessed (click “expand”)
The ramifications of it are impossible to imagine, but we do know the media cannot continue in the way that it has. No one believes the media anymore and no one should. You should be offended by this, not because the media are liberal, but because this is an attack on our democracy. You’ve heard that phrase again and again. This is what it actually looks like. In a self-governing country, voters have a right to know — an obligation to know who they're voting for. In this case, they have the right to know that Democratic nominee for president was a willing partner in his family's lucrative influence-peddling operation — an operation that went on for decades and stretched from China and Ukraine all the way to Oman, Romanian, Luxembourg, and many other countries. This is not speculation, once again and it's not a partisan attack. It's true and Tony Bobulinski confirmed it.
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So the question is what is Joe Biden's answer to that question...I don't think this is the kind of classic scenario where conservatives say, “oh, the media is so liberal. The liberal media.” I think this is at a level above that, beyond that, more profound than that where it’s not a question of liberal, conservative, left, right. It’s a question of democracy. Does the voting population have a right to know what they're voting for, who these people are they’ll be putting into office?
And regarding the audio, Tuesday’s clip consisted of Biden family confidante Rob Walker pleading Bobulinski not to go public because he would “just...bury all of us.” But for Wednesday, Carlson had not one but two soundbites.
Carlson explained that the first clip was Walker and James Gilliard “discussing how very worried they are that this story, the one we're talking about now, would emerge into the press, that it would become public and they wanted to figure out how to handle the fallout from this.”
Here was the clip:
WALKER: I just think that if somebody comes out now and verifies the story, it blows up big time. That's all.
GILLIARD: We’ve got this — we’ve got this situation now where it’s escalating again because somebody, allegedly one of us three, has qualified the story. Already, it’s back on the front pages.
Carlson boasted that “[i]t’s almost touching how naïve they are” in having believed that the media would not only work to “verify it,” but have it “blow up” into the public square.
He added:
In other words, even the Biden family’s business partners — the Biden family itself wasn't counting on the media to side with them to the extent that they have, to bury all this damaging information...They had no idea that every news network and every journalist in this country would actually suppress it because that's never happened in America before. They thought they were going to be busted when it came out. They didn't realize one cable channel would cover it.
As for the second clip, Carlson played Bobulinski asking “his business partners to just tell the truth” about the Biden family’s corruption (click “expand”):
CARLSON: Also on that call, Tony Bobulinski pleaded with his business partners to just tell the truth — just go ahead and tell the truth. Same thing he said in our interview last night. Instead of lying, Rob Walker and James Gilliard can come out and admit what happened. Hunter Biden was selling access to his father. Everyone knows that, why deny it? Here’s the portion of the phone call. Listen.
BOBULINSKI: He was there because he was selling his family's name, and that's the whole reason why the Chinese were there. The Chinese would have never been there if the Biden name wasn't there. [SCREEN WIPE] They were therefore exactly why people say they were therefore. Like, let's be honest with each other.
CARLSON: Yeah. I mean, there’s no dispute about that. The Biden family have no marketable skills. They can't actually do anything. They've never done anything except serve in government and make money from that service, okay? So, Rob Walker and James Gilliard didn’t refute what Tony Bobulinski said cause they knew it was true. The Bidens were selling their family name. They were selling the U.S. government. But that didn’t bother them. What bothered them was being exposed doing it. That's why Tony Bobulinski spoke to us last night and it’s Rob Walker, James Gilliard, and the Biden family are effectively in hiding tonight.
To see the relevant FNC transcript from October 28, click “expand.”
FNC’s Tucker Carlson Tonight
October 28, 2020
8:02 p.m. EasternTUCKER CARLSON: We can't help noticing that in a normal country you probably already would have heard it. Bobulinski told a remarkable story. Joe Biden, who, once again, could be president of the United States next week, was planning business deals with America's most formidable global opponent. And when he was caught doing it, Joe Biden lied. And then he went further up right he slandered an innocent man as a traitor to his own country. It is clear that Joe Biden did that. That's not a partisan talking point, uttered in bad faith on behalf of another presidential campaign. It’s true. So, the question is what is Joe Biden’s excuse for doing that? What is his version of the story? Everyone has a version and would like to hear it, but we don't know what Joe Biden's version of the story is because no one in America's vast media landscape has pressed Joe Biden to answer the question. Instead, reporters, at all levels and their editors and their publishers have openly collaborated with Joe Biden’s political campaign. That is unprecedented. It has never happened in American history. This morning, the big papers completely ignored what Tony Bobulinski had to say. So did the other television networks. Not a single word about Bobulinski appeared on CNN or anywhere else. Newsweek decided to cover it, but came to the conclusion that the real story was about Q-Anon, somehow. This is Soviet-style suppression of information of a legitimate news story days before an election. The ramifications of it are impossible to imagine, but we do know the media cannot continue in the way that it has. No one believes the media anymore and no one should. You should be offended by this, not because the media are liberal, but because this is an attack on our democracy. You’ve heard that phrase again and again. This is what it actually looks like. In a self-governing country, voters have a right to know — an obligation to know who they're voting for. In this case, they have the right to know that Democratic nominee for president was a willing partner in his family's lucrative influence-peddling operation --- an operation that went on for decades and stretched from China and Ukraine all the way to Oman, Romanian, Luxembourg, and many other countries. This is not speculation, once again and it's not a partisan attack. It's true and Tony Bobulinski confirmed it.
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8:10 p.m. Eastern
CARLSON: So the question is what is Joe Biden's answer to that question? We wish we knew. Ned Ryun is the CEO of American Majority. He joins tonight. Ned, thank you so much for coming on. I don't think this is the kind of classic scenario where conservatives say, “oh, the media is so liberal. The liberal media.” I think this is at a level above that, beyond that, more profound than that where it’s not a question of liberal, conservative, left, right. It’s a question of democracy. Does the voting population have a right to know what they're voting for, who these people are they’ll be putting into office? Have you seen — has there ever been anything like this suppression we’re watching now — of information?
NED RYUN: No, I haven’t. See, first of all, we have to disabuse yourself that we have any real journalists left. I mean, they’re partisan operatives —
CARLSON: That’s for sure.
RYUN: — masquerading as journalists. I mean, we saw that the last four years. They took a fake dossier and acted as an attack machine for the administrative state and Democratic Party and the left to try to undermine and take out the duly elected president of the United States. You know, I keep on thinking about The Washington Post’s asinine and arrogant statement that “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Well, the so-called media is the darkness where democracy dies. You can’t have our free society if you have a media that is wildly disinterested in truth and in fact and is quite simply, Tucker, only interested in one-party rule. The American people deserve to know that Joe Biden is clearly a big guy, he's the chairman. I have to tell you. One of the most startling points of last night was when you mentioned earlier when he nixed the idea of good governance in this corporation. The only reason you do that is to avoid transparency and you're doing that because you don't want people fully understanding what's going on. And I have to tell you this, Tucker. We keep on asking where did the money go? Well, if we were to believe some of Hunter's text, half the paycheck goes to pop's, how are we to say without — we can say with some certainty at least until they deny it, that may be half of that 5 million Chinese loan went to pops and he was taking money directly from the communist Chinese. And I have to tell you. It’s hard to overstate how serious that is that we have a potential President Joe Biden, God forbid, may be going into the white house. He will collapse any opposition. We are the only economic and military power right now in the world that can confront China.
CARLSON: That’s right.
RYUN: It is clear that he is heavily compromised on this issue. The American people deserve answers, but the media is acting as a de facto Biden campaign. They’re hiding him in the basement. They’re doing all of his fighting for him and they’ve arrayed themselves against Trump and the American people. The masquerade is over. The American people — they should understand this. They have a chance to have a reckoning with the press, with big tech, with the swamp, with the administrative state, with the Biden cartel, it's November 3rd when they vote for Donald Trump and give him another four years.
CARLSON: A lot’s becoming clear. All this Russia talk. Purely a cover for China. It’s obvious.
RYUN: Totally.
CARLSON: Ned Ryun. Thank you for that.
RYUN: Thanks, Tucker.
CARLSON: Well, there’s always a lot going on that we don't have time to get to on the air. But there is something specific going on behind the screens right now that we did feel we should tell you about. So, on Monday of this week, we received a — from a source — confidential documents related to the Biden family. We believe those documents are authentic. They’re real and they’re damning. At the time we received them, our — my executive producer Justin Wells and I were in Los Angeles, preparing to interview Tony Bobulinski about the Biden’s business dealings in China, Ukraine, and other countries. So we texted a producer in New York and we asked him to send those documents to us in LA. And he did that. So, Monday afternoon of this week, he shipped the documents overnight to California with a large, national carrier, brand-name company that we've used, you've used countless times with never a single problem. But the Biden documents never arrived in Los Angeles. Tuesday morning, we received word from the shipping company that our package had been opened and the contents were missing. The documents had disappeared. Now, to its credit, the company took this very seriously and immediately began a search. They traced the envelope from the moment our producers dropped it off in Manhattan on Monday all the way to 3:44 a.m. yesterday morning. That's when an employee at a sorting facility in another state noticed that our package was open and empty. Apparently, it had been opened. So, the company’s security team interviewed every one of its employees who touched the envelope we sent. They searched the planes, and the trucks that carried it. They went through the office in New York where our producer dropped that package off. They combed the entire cavernous sorting facility. They used pictures of what we had sent, so that searchers would know what to look for. They went far and beyond, but they found nothing. Those documents have vanished. As of tonight, the company has no idea and no working theory even about what happened to this trove of materials, documents that are directly relevant to the presidential campaign, just six days from now. We spoke to executives at that company a few hours ago. They seemed baffled and deeply bothered by this. And so are we.
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8:22 p.m. Eastern
CARLSON: Now, we played some audio last night to show you this. We have more audio tonight. You’re about to hear Rob Walker and James Gilliard, those are two of the Biden family business partners on a call with Tony Bobulinksi. They’re discussing how very worried they are that this story, the one we're talking about now, would emerge into the press, that it would become public and they wanted to figure out how to handle the fallout from this. This audio is very new. Here it is.
BOB WALKER: I just think that if somebody comes out now and verifies the story, it blows up big time. That's all.
JAMES GILLIARD: We’ve got this — we’ve got this situation now where it’s escalating again because somebody, allegedly one of us three, has qualified the story. Already, it’s back on the front pages.
CARLSON: It's almost touching how naïve they are. Now, these are politically sophisticated people, of course. I mean, they serve the Biden family. They’re Democrats. It goes without saying, but they're convinced in the call you just heard and this was just taped not long ago, that if this story comes out the media will verify it and it will blow up. In other words, even the Biden family’s business partners — the Biden family itself wasn't counting on the media to side with them to the extent that they have, to bury all this damaging information. The information is obviously incriminating. They had no idea that every news network and every journalist in this country would actually suppress it because that's never happened in America before. They thought they were going to be busted when it came out. They didn't realize one cable channel would cover it. Also on that call, Tony Bobulinski pleaded with his business partners to just tell the truth — just go ahead and tell the truth. Same thing he said in our interview last night. Instead of lying, Rob Walker and James Gilliard can come out and admit what happened. Hunter Biden was selling access to his father. Everyone knows that, why deny it? Here’s the portion of the phone call. Listen.
TONY BOBULINSKI: He was there because he was selling his family's name, and that's the whole reason why the Chinese were there. The Chinese would have never been there if the Biden name wasn't there. [SCREEN WIPE] They were therefore exactly why people say they were therefore. Like, let's be honest with each other.
CARLSON: Yeah. I mean, there’s no dispute about that. The Biden family have no marketable skills. They can't actually do anything. They've never done anything except serve in government and make money from that service, okay? So, Rob Walker and James Gilliard didn’t refute what Tony Bobulinski said cause they knew it was true. The Bidens were selling their family name. They were selling the U.S. government. But that didn’t bother them. What bothered them was being exposed doing it. That's why Tony Bobulinski spoke to us last night and it’s Rob Walker, James Gilliard, and the Biden family are effectively in hiding tonight.
