Posted on 05/26/2017 1:53:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Okay. Its Open Line Friday, and Im gonna get to the phones in the next segment. Theres real not enough time here to be fair with anybody, and theres nobody up there I want to be unfair with, so we will wait.
I just want to give you examples, again, of what I was just talking about. There isnt a shred of evidence, theres not a morsel of evidence for anything being alleged. Now, you might say, Rush, there has to be. All this coverage. Im telling you, there isnt. There isnt a shred of evidence. They dont have any evidence on Flynn.
By the way, the Democrats, Sheldon Whitehouse very, very worried that Flynn is already in secret talks with the DOJ, and theyre mad at Mueller because Mueller is taking all the investigative aims away from them in Congress. Hes not gonna permit them. They think the fix is in. But look at this. Washington Post: Jared Kushner is Now a Focus in Russia Investigation.
By the way, after the break theres some sound bites that go with this, and then well get to the phones. Some excellent sound bites that go with this. So hang on. Jared Kushner is Now a Focus in Russia Investigation. What does that tell you? And then if you go look at the Washington Post top 20 stories, 18 of them are Jared Kushner or 15 of em.
And if you read story, listen to this: Kushner is the only current White House official known to be considered a key person in the probe. The Post has not been told that Kushner is a target or the central focus of the investigation, and he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Well, then whats the story? Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation? The investigators are focusing on a series of meetings held by Jared Kushner, son-in-law, blah, blah. And then you read, Kushner is the only current White House official known to be considered a key person in the probe. The Washington Post has not been told that Kushners a target or the central focus of the investigation, and he has not been accused of any wrong doing. Well, then theres not a morsel of evidence. Hes not a key figure in this!
Theyre just writing another story that served as the bombshell at 5:30 yesterday. NBC News did the same thing. Jared Kushner, Trumps Son-in-Law, Has Come Under FBI Scrutiny in the Russia Investigation. And then later, Investigators believe he has significant information. But that does not mean they suspect him of a crime or even intend to charge him. Well, then what are you trying to do here, Washington Post, NBC? Its obvious to us what youre trying to do. Because there isnt any news here.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
But again a reminder, Washington Post: Jared Kushner Now Focus in Russia Investigation The Post has not been told that Kushner is a target or the central focus of the investigation, and hes not been accused of any wrongdoing. Its not a criminal investigation anyway, folks. There is no such thing as a focus.
The story is entirely unnecessary, unless it is a part of a continuum that is a focused assassination attempt on Trump and the administration. NBC News does the same thing. NBC News reporting that Jared Kushner, President Donald Trumps son-in-law, one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation.
Folks, there is not a morsel of evidence for any allegation. And after practically indicting Kushner here, NBC says, But that does not mean they suspect him of a crime or even intend to charge him. No reason to do the story. Theres no probative value, news value. Theres nothing new, nothing that wasnt true yesterday that is true today or vice-versa. Its unconscionable. Its journalistic malpractice.
Backing this up, audio sound bites, last night, CNN, Anderson Cooper 95. Hes talking with the former attorney general, Michael Mukasey, about reports that Kushner has become a focus in the Russia election. Anderson Cooper says in his question, Jared Kushner is not a suspect here. He is not a person of interest. He is just, were told, a focus. They want to speak to him because it seems like he was basically a witness. What do you make of this, Attorney General Mukasey?
MUKASEY: If you read back what you just said, you used two terms that are unknown to any federal investigator. Person of interest is not a term that any federal investigator ever uses, and its not a term thats appropriate to this investigation. This is a national security investigation. Its not a criminal investigation. So pretty much everybody is a witness. Now, what are they a witness to? Theyre probably a witness to the fact that the Russians were trying to get close to influence people of influence. Thats what they do. That is not in itself surprising.
RUSH: Read back what you just said. You used to two terms unknown to any federal prosecutor. Person of interest, yep, might be the title of a TV show and you might see it on CNN every week, but its nothing we use, Mr. Cooper. And a focus? That just doesnt happen. So its a very polite slapdown. Essentially, You dont know what youre talking about. You dont have a story here. Everybodys a witness in a national security investigation. Everybodys trying to influence Washington. Thats what they do. It isnt illegal nor is it surprising. Up next, Professor Dershowitz. Same show. After Mukasey says that its not surprising Kushners considered a witness, Dershowitz added
DERSHOWITZ: Attorney General Mukasey is absolutely right. This is being done backwards. Usually you can point to a statute and say were investigating crime under this statute. Theres a great danger to civil liberties when you say lets investigate and maybe well find something, that we can find a statute to fit. Thats not the way it ought to happen.
RUSH: Dershowitz is even condemning this. And hes exactly right here. Theyve got nothing. So theyre throwing everything up against the wall and hoping something they find violates the law. And they cant find anything yet. Thats the story. Theyre throwing youve heard the proverbial phrase, lets just throw the excrement on the wall and see what sticks. Well, this has been happening since before the election and intensely after it, since it, and nothings sticking. There is nothing to any of this. Dershowitz is right.
They keep trying to uncover nothing hoping that they can find some law thats been broken. But I dont even think its that. Eli Lake has it right. Trumps allies convicted of high crimes without a trial. The assassination, impeachment of Donald Trump is occurring right before our very eyes. Only this is not a constitutional impeachment. Its not happening in the House and Senate. Its happening in the American media.
The Trump administration is being tried and convicted without a trial. And its been intense and steady, lets just call it since the election, since last November. It actually predates that. But thats what this really is. Theres nothing news here. Theres no reporting going on. There isnt a scandal that has happened that they are desperately trying to uncover. There is no cover-up going on.
Nothing has happened regarding that which has been alleged: collusion between the Russians and Trump to affect the outcome of the election. It just hasnt happened. And it didnt happen, and theyre not gonna find anything. They dont care. Their objective is to destroy Trump and his presidency before the 2018 midterms.
Now, Jeffrey Toobin we have one more bite Jeffrey Toobin was also on CNN, same show. Jeffrey Toobin had just heard Mukasey basically tell Cooper: You dont know what youre talking about, theres nothing to see here. They just heard Dershowitz say that theyre going about this ass backwards. These people dont have a violation. They dont have a crime. They dont have anything. So theyre just throwing everything up against the wall and hoping one day theyre gonna find a violation of a crime.
Well, Toobin cant let this stand. Toobin understands that Mukasey is doing well and that the usually dependable Dershowitz has thrown in with the other side, so Toobin has to bravely fight back. Toobin has to get in there, roll up the sleeves and defend the media and its cause, and thats how this went.
TOOBIN: Aiding and abetting hacking is a crime.
DERSHOWITZ: You have to show evidence. Youre just making that up. You have to show evidence not only that they knew about the hacking, but they worked hand-in-glove with them. Youre just making it up.
RUSH: Dershowitz to Toobin: Youre just making it up. Toobin valiantly fighting back there, trying to defend the honor not only of CNN about the media at large by repeating the baseless claim that the Russians hacked. There isnt any hack. Dont tell me Podestas emails. Thats a phishing scheme. There isnt any hack. Toobin says, Its a crime, aiding and abetting, hacking, its a crime. Dershowitz: Come on, Jeffrey. This is like a student hes getting ready to flunk. Come on, Jeffrey, you have to show some evidence. Youre just making it up. Toobin: Im not making it up, Im not.
Yes, you are. You have to show evidence. Not only that they knew about the hacking but they worked hand-in-glove with em, meaning the Trump people. Youre just making it up. Which is true. Theyre making it up knowingly and purposefully for the express purpose of the destruction of Trump and his character, his administration, his career, and anybody working with him, simply because he had the audacity to beat them and is an outsider.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Oh, look at this! Look at this! CNN: Sources Say Comey Acted on Russian Intel He Knew Was Fake. Ah, ah, ah, ah. No way. Not true. The original version of this story was two nights ago. The original version of the story was that Comey was tricked by a fake Russian memo or piece of intel that led him to essentially cast Loretta Lynch aside. She had been corrupted by the investigation, so he had to go out and he had to do that July 5th press conference.
Go look it up, folks. Two days ago the story was that Comey was tricked by something the Russians did. Now its two days later, and the CNN updated version: Comey Acted on Russian Intel He Knew Was Fake. This is a bit different from Comey was tricked. See, when it says that Comey was tricked, that doesnt make Comey look good, does it? And remember, theyve got a lot of eggs in the Comey basket. Comey was gonna come testify. Comeys got the memos. Comey memorialized all the memos of the dinners that he had with Trump.
That means that Comey has all the truth, that Comey has every bit of indictable news about Trump, because thats why Trump tried to impede the investigation, thats why Trump tried to get in the way, thats why Trump tried to talk Comey out of investigating. Comeys got the memos. Except now the memos may not exist. Jason Chaffetz is wondering where the hell they are. The FBI will not release those memos of Comeys.
Why not? Congress has legitimate investigations going. Well, the reason why not is that the new special counsel, Robert Mueller, has basically told Congress to go pound sand. That his is the only investigation that matters, and theyve gotta turn over everything theyve uncovered to him, and then he will systematically inform them at the right time.
But Comey, who was hated and reviled and then loved and then hated again and then ultimately loved has the memos, and the memos have all the dirt on Trump. The memos are like secret tapes. Comey memorialized everything. Except nobodys seen the memos. Comeys not spoken publicly about them. Comey was supposed to go testify.
Now, if news surfaces that the Russians did something that made the FBI make a mistake, which led to Comey doing the July 5th press conference, and that story was out two nights ago I forget the specific details, but the upshot of it was that its a Washington Post story. Its two days ago: How a Dubious Russian Document Influenced the FBIs Handling of the Clinton Probe. And it clearly stated that Comey was tricked.
A secret document that officials say played a key role in then-FBI Director James B. Comeys handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation has long been viewed within the FBI as unreliable and possibly a fake. Current and former officials have said that Comey relied on the document in making his July decision to announce on his own, without Justice Department involvement, that the investigation was over.
So the Washington Post two days ago: FBI had a fake document they knew was fake, Comey was tricked into using it. And it was vis-a-vis the Clintons, and he used it to do that press conference and close the investigation, and the rest of the FBI didnt know! This does not jibe with what weve been told after the Comey firing. The FBI loved Comey. The FBI was shocked and stunned that Trump would do something so mean and barbaric and dumb and piggish. How could Trump do it?
Now, were finding out the FBI was not unified behind what Comey was doing in that July 5th press conference and that there was a fake document that he relied on. The original story was that he was tricked by it. So now, with everybody on the left invested so heavily in Comey, they cant have him look like an idiot. I mean, the guy theyre relying on to nail Trump for, like, the fourth or fifth time here is coming off a news story where it stated he was tricked by the Russians? No, no, no. We cant have that.
So two days later, today, the story is, No, no, no. Comey wasnt tricked. Comey knew it was fake. Nobody gets anything by James Comey. He knew he was fake. He did it anyway. Now, see, folks, I dont watch this stuff. This way I can laugh at it, instead of getting ticked off by it. Great example here. I find this hilarious. What they are trying to do. They are twisting themselves into so many different pretzel shapes here. They dont have any evidence. And Dershowitz is right.
Sally Yates testified, they hope, Oh, my God, please, let Sally Yates have something, please. She had nothing. Theyre hoping Comeys gonna have a bombshell or two. He doesnt. We would know about it if he did. Theres all these damn leaks. If there were transcripts of memos we would already know it cause everything else is being leaked, even stuff thats been made up. So now they got all their eggs in the Comey basket and they cant have Comey going up there making it look like he was duped by the very people that Trump worked with to steal the election. So they have to change the narrative a bit. No, no, no, he knew it was a fake batch of stuff from the Russians. You dont get things past James Comey.
Now, lets see. Grab sound bite number nine, CNN. I want to cite this as another example here of the benefits of not watching this stuff live and not being irritated by it and negatively affected by it. This is a montage of people from the Washington Post and CNN talking about the Washington Post revelation that Jared Kushner is a person of interest.
If they had just read all the way down to paragraph eight in the Washington Post story, they would have found the Post say, The Post has not been told that Kushner is the target or the central focus of the investigation, and he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
If they had read that, they wouldnt have had to do an entire segment on Kushner. But they wanted to do a segment on Kushner. They wanted to join the Post and NBC, they wanted to get on the train heading down the tracks of innuendo and character assassination, so they had to talk about it. And thats what we have here. A montage here of a bunch of mindless twaddle on CNN last night about the supposed investigation of Jared Kushner. Listen to this.
ZAPOTOSKY: This is big news. Now, I should sort of clarify that were not saying that he is gonna be charged with a crime. Were not saying he is the target of the investigation.
BORGER: He may be the focus of it to a degree, but nobody is saying that hes a target of the investigation.
PEREZ: Hes not a target of this investigation.
BROWN: We should point out and emphasize he is not the target.
GERGEN: He is not a target and we have to keep stressing that. Hes not a target.
COOPER: Hes a focus, not the focus, not a target, not a suspect.
RUSH: Why are you even talking about it at all if hes not a target, if hes not a focus, if hes not a suspect, then what are you doing? See, if I had watched this live, Id have been so ticked off, Id gotten mad. I would have started channel surfing, but it would have made me mad. I didnt see it live. I come in here, I learn about it this way, and Im laughing about it. And thats what we have to do, folks. It works for me to start laughing at the utter futility of this. (interruption) No, do not say that. I am not not taking it seriously. Ive spent 30 years taking it seriously.
Ive spent 30 years looking at television and having to talk about it the next day is like an oral final exam. Dont accuse me of backing out of anything. Im telling you you need a different attitude about this. And I am acquiring a much healthier and humorous attitude about it all by not watching it and learning about it after the fact. Learning about it after the fact, in this case, you learn how just way off the reality reservation these people are. It is funny to watch them flail away here. Theyve got nothing and their talking about having nothing.
We gotta make sure we dont say, lets make it clear that hes not. Well, we must not make anybody confused here. He is not. What a big panel that was. What an exciting bunch of television to watch a bunch of people tell everybody after they had just made them breathless with the latest bombshell that theres no news here! And I want to go back and replay the sound bite of the former attorney general Michael Mukasey which happened on CNN shortly after this little montage that you heard.
MUKASEY: If you read back what you just said, you used two terms that are unknown to any federal investigator. Person of interest is not a term that any federal investigator ever uses, and its not a term thats appropriate to this investigation. This is a national security investigation. Its not a criminal investigation. So pretty much everybody is a witness. Now, what are they a witness to? Theyre probably a witness to the fact that the Russians were trying to get close to influence people of influence. Thats what they do. That is not in itself surprising.
RUSH: So, person of interest, no such thing, we dont call anybody focus, theres no focus. It was mindless twaddle. These people, Ill tell you who they were. Matt Zapotosky, Gloria Borger, Evan Perez, Pamela Brown, David Rodham Gergen, and Anderson Cooper, and they spent a whole segment just talking to hear their heads rattle.
FBI doesn’t comment on extant investigations. Therefore the media can make up any damned thing they want and run with it.
Ok, and partially to in an effort to gain the upper hand for the next election.
So, Comey says, “We’ve got this Russian document. If it leaks out we will look bad on the Clinton investigation. We have to do something!”
“But, Chief, it’s a Russian document. Who cares?”
“You don’t understand, it’s a FAKE Russian document!”
“Oh. Then that IS serious.”
The press is running hard with this story. There is no “debunking” of press narratives, they just disappear eventually, depending how how well they drive ratings.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/jared-kushner-and-donald-trump-like-father-like-son-in-law
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-26/fbi-scrutiny-of-kushner-brings-russia-probe-into-the-white-house
I’ve noted a few times on leftist sites that if Jarad is ‘disposed of’ (politically, of course), then Bannon gets full access to Trump.
Funny how no one ever responds...
Which means the left will just double down on it, because they all know that if you repeat something often enough, it becomes true.
Rush isn’t quite accurate about the Russian intelligence document. Some people thought it was fake, others didn’t, and I don’t think they know for sure to this day. Amazingly, the FBI never even interviewed the people specifically named in the document, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Why did they suspect it was fake if they didn’t even do a proper investigation? Something stinks about this.
========================================
If anybody knows about "fixes" that would be Democrats. (smirk)
I don’t really see Jared and Bannon overlapping in their usefulness to Trump.
Bannon has a history of hard-driving political experience.
Jared’s there b/c he’s married to Ivanka. Period.
Jared may have some insights here and there, but I don’t see Trump depending on Jared to get the job done.
That’s where Bannon comes in.
I listened to Rush today while scrubbing out kitchen cupboards, fridge, stove and dishwasher and hand and knees mopping the floor...
He was good today...I was going, ‘Oh yeah’ all through the program...really first time I have enjoyed Rush for a while...
He raised some good points, but we don’t know who is President Trump’s FBI person, I can’t wait, all I read is it is going to make the dems heads explode so he/she must be good...I can’t wait!!!
Thanks Liz...
The fix is NOT in..................lol!
Sure would be grand if they had something fast action to fix this head hurt. Gee whiz - not even a score card available to assist in understanding what the hell is going on...putting together the bits and pieces. Reads like a third rate crime novel; no plot, insipid characters, a burger with no beef, muddy waters.
I think you’re right. They are so active precisely because they feel the pressure.
Remember when Obama stuttered and stammered trying to say Trump’s name?
He knows what Trump is capable of doing. And Obama better get his vacation time in now. Fort Leavenworth is not an attractive place to live, so he needs his memories to keep him sane.
I've been saying this for quite a while now. This is all pre-emptive because they know the truth is going to come out on the Seth Rich murder by DNC/Hillary/Obama crime syndicate and the illegal surveillance by the Obama administration of Trump and his campaign and transition team, and many, many others. When it finally all comes out, this is going to make the Clinton-era Filegate look amateur in comparison. The public is not going to vote democrat for a century.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.