Public Opinion Could Curtail the Mueller-Led Coup

RUSH: So I just checked the emails during the break. “Rush, why are you spending so much time on this?” Because the Drive-Bys have dropped this. You would think after a 36-page story on Friday in the Washington Post, that story was dropped to dominate the Sunday shows, which was then intended to create news to start into this week, to further the whole notion that Trump colluded with Russia. This Washington Post story, in some ways, may have even backfired, because I don’t know whether they intended this or not, but this does not help the Democrats. It makes Obama look bad.

That headline, “Obama’s Secret Struggle,” clearly the people that wrote this thing had a different idea of its interpretation or its impact. They thought people would end up praising and celebrating and loving Obama and understanding the tough choice. They do not understand how the Democrats and their base have been driven to near insanity over this. And to then learn that Obama knew about it and didn’t stop it? This is not good. So they’ve basically dropped it. They’re talking about health care and the Senate vote coming from. They’re talking about the Supreme Court decision today.

because the idea it’s been a counterintelligence investigation, we’re supposed to be somewhat comforted by that. Well, it’s not criminal. That means you’re looking at things here, and that would make it, of course, relevant that Trump was never a target, never a suspect. And, by the way, we’ve learned more about that, folks. Hang on here just a second.

Chuck Grassley has come out and accused Schumer of lying. Remember, Schumer wanted to temporarily delay debate on the nomination of Gorsuch because of this Russian investigation thing, and because of what Comey had said. And Schumer said that, Schumer proposed that already aware that Trump was not a suspect. This is the sole reason that Comey got fired, I’m now convinced. That Comey had told everybody Trump was not a suspect but wouldn’t go public with it for flimsy excuses and flimsy reasons.

And I think when Comey goes back up and testifies and makes it clear that Trump still might be under suspicion, I think that was the last straw, I think Trump canned the guy because he wouldn’t go public with what he had told everybody. He had told congressional investigators. He controlled members of the House and Senate, told ’em that Trump was not a target three different times. Trump had to mention it in his firing letter for the public to find out about it.

But what if, from the get-go, what if these supposed counterintelligence investigations that the Obama administration was running were actually nothing more than surveillance operations on Trump? It wouldn’t be hard to do. You go to the FISA court, you’ve already got a foreign country like Russia, you’ve already got FISA warrants for them, FISA procedures because they are a foreign government.

So then you say we want to surveil, pick an agent, like the Soviet Ambassador Kislyak, so we want to surveil him and find out what’s going on. Then we hear that the phone call happens between him and Mike Flynn, for example. And what if the Obama administration decided that what they really wanted to do was surveil Trump, and what they applied for or what they actually ended up doing was making people think they were running a counterintelligence operation as opposed to a criminal investigation, which was cover for actual surveillance of the Trump campaign or the Trump transition?

See, I wouldn’t put it past any of these people. And you know we would find out. If we ever had access to these FISA warrants, we would find out. Nobody has even admitted that they exist. Nobody has admitted that they actually happened. It’s the stuff of myth right now. Now, as to Mueller and your question about firing Mueller, Trump could do a lot of things before firing Mueller. He could limit the scope of what Mueller can look at very easily.

He could command, “Look, okay, you’re gonna do an investigation. You’ve gotta limit it to felonious criminal activity. You’re not gonna be looking at people’s tax returns. You’re not gonna be looking at people’s finances. You’re not gonna be going off this half-baked here in any direction you want to go.” What it all is gonna come down to, I mentioned earlier, is public opinion.

And you might think, “Well, Rush that’s crazy, public opinion isn’t gonna stop the guy.” But it might, when you consider the ultimate aim for this. The ultimate aim of this is a coup d’etat, getting rid of Trump. There aren’t a lot of people on our side who doubt that that’s what Mueller’s objective is. There are some who don’t. There are some who think that Mueller actually is trying to set up an exoneration of Trump and selling it by having all of these leftist Obama and Hillary people on his staff to quell whatever anger there would be on the left if Trump is exonerated.

That’s a bit of a stretch, but it remains a possibility. But this is just too obvious. Look, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. And if this guy is lining up all these people that hate Trump, and all of these Never Trumpers who love Hillary and love Obama and are mad at the way the election happened, and now they’re on this gigantic, expanding investigative team that has no financial limits and no territorial limits, it looks pretty clear here that this is a fishing expedition. As Newt Gingrich calls it, a hunt.

They’re not fishing. They’re loaded for bear. And they are hunting. And they’re gonna look until they find something on somebody. People I’ve spoken to about this tell me they don’t think that Mueller is gonna get anything on Trump, because if there were anything on Trump, by golly, by God, it would have been found by now with as many people looking, as many people making it up, as many people trying to find the bombshell, it would have been found. And nobody has a bombshell. So if there’s nothing on Trump, they’re gonna keep hunting until they find somebody.

Now, where does public opinion come into play? Well, impeachment, when you get down to it, impeachment is a political procedure. And it cannot happen without public support, political public support. Even though it’s ostensibly a legal issue, high crimes and misdemeanors, if you’re gonna impeach a sitting president to get rid of him, you had better have a lot of public opinion on your side or it’s going to bomb out, because it is elected representatives of the people that have to carry all this out.

House comes up with articles of impeachment, and they conduct a trial, and the Senate is where the trial is heard. And, you know, you have the 2018 midterms coming up, and I have this poll for you. I’ve cited it twice already, but here it is again. Harvard University poll has found that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the FBI’s Russia investigations are hurting the country, and a majority believe that it’s time for Congress and the establishment media to move on to other issues.

According to the Harvard-Harris poll, who is Mark Penn, by the way, a former Hillary pollster, and he’s been trying to warn Democrats that they’re heading down the wrong path for quite a while now. And he’s doing it again with these poll results. Published here at TheHill.com, by the way. “Sixty-four percent of voters said the investigations into President Trump and Russia are hurting the country. Fifty-six percent of voters said it’s time for Congress and the media to move on to other issues, compared to 44 percent who said the focus should stay on Russia.”

In addition, 73% — we’re almost here at three-quarters — said “they’re concerned that the Russia probes have caused Congress to lose focus on the issues important to them. That figure encompasses 81 percent of Republicans, 74 percent of independents and 68 percent of Democrats.” That comes out to 73% are concerned the Russia investigations have caused Congress to lose focus.

This poll comes on the heels of an NBC/Wall Street Journal survey that found that half of Americans believed the media’s Russia coverage has been irresponsible and overdramatized. To me, these are earthquake results. This is a smack in the face to the media. The exact opposite was supposed to happen. But you and I both knew this is what was gonna happen. They were making people sick of it. They couldn’t let it go. They come across as obsessed. You can’t turn on CNN, until today. That’s what is noteworthy about today.

You can’t turn on CNN without hearing about this Russia-Trump collusion story. And you haven’t been able to turn on CNN and hear anything about that for seven or eight months now, and in seven or eight months nobody has a morsel of evidence that Trump did anything. For seven or eight months, innuendo, unnamed sources, former officials and current officials, high sources, in deep in the intelligence, nothing, zilch, zero, nada. There is nothing but a promise, nothing more than a promise that we’re gonna get Trump ’cause we knew he’s done something, and if we can’t prove it, we’re gonna make it up, we’re gonna get Trump. And there’s nothing.

This is such a slap in the face of the Democrats, these poll results from Harvard, from Mark Penn, a Democrat pollster, 73% say they’re concerned that the investigations and the media coverage is causing everybody to lose focus on other important issues. Two-thirds say it’s hurting the country. The media has failed to marshal public support for their coup d’etat, is the point, folks. You can’t have, unless you want the military involved, you’re not gonna have a coup d’etat if you don’t have a tremendous amount of public support for it.

Now, I know some of you think, “The Democrats don’t care about that. Media wouldn’t care about that. Get rid of Trump, they’ll deal with whatever happens.” No, at some point the public opinion is gonna matter in this. That’s why they’re doing all this. They’re doing this to create public opinion against Trump. They’re trying to marshal opposition to Trump in the polls. They’re trying to create, just like they did with Nixon, just like they did with Katrina, just like they’ve done with the Iraq war, they’re trying to create an anger within the American public over the election of Trump, over the Trump presidency, his honesty, integrity, and they’re failing. They’re failing at their primary mission.

And one of the reasons is there hasn’t been anything backing any of this up. There’s not a morsel of evidence. There’s not a shred of evidence for anything they’ve alleged, accused Trump of doing, other than being somebody they don’t understand and having a personality type that they don’t like. And beside the fact they don’t know how to beat him. But those are not impeachable things and you really can’t build anti-, hateful public opinion on them.

But it’s backfiring on them, folks. So when it comes to Mueller, if the public continues to tire on this, and if the public continues to think that all of this is distracting everybody from things that really matter to the American people that live outside of Washington, it doesn’t matter what Mueller comes up with; he’s just gonna be seen as a continuation of all of this. Well, unless he comes up with the golden bullet, but I don’t think it exists. It would have been heard of by now.

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I’m hopeful that Mueller WILL do the right thing. Odds are against it but I have my optimist hat on today.

Mueller needs to investigate the abuses by the Obama administration. How did this investigation get starte? I bet Comey can’t explain it without tripping himself up.

The Trump-haters’ “The Russkis are coming!” BS is no longer funny to the majority of Americans. It has gotten old and tired.

Cliff Note’s version: The Democrat Narrative of the Russia Affair is imploding. As the lies unravel they do more to incriminate Democrats than Trump. As we learned with Slick Willie, impeachment will NEVER happen unless the public approves, and they show no signs of doing so. Hence Mueller would do well to cut his losses and wind-down the investigation. If not, we turned out 650,000 for the Pittsburgh Penguin Stanley Cup parade, and expect we could turn out at least 1 Million in the streets of D.C.

If this cheap punk thug thinks he is going to pull off a hitpiece on our President, he has another think coming.

“I’m hopeful that Mueller WILL do the right thing. Odds are against it but I have my optimist hat on today.”

Please folks, quit being naive. There is a reason why Mueller was appointed by the Democrat Rosenstein and there is a reason why Mueller is hiring high-powered Democrat-donor criminal lawyers. Lawyers are ruthless, folks, don’t ever forget that!

“Can someone reply with the Cliff’s Notes version of what Rush is saying above?”

As I said all along. Obama and his team are dirty and this whole ‘Russian’ thing was a cover for their dirt when Trump pulled the upset.

The take-away: “The media has failed to marshal public support for their coup d’etat, is the point, folks. You can’t have, unless you want the military involved, you’re not gonna have a coup d’etat if you don’t have a tremendous amount of public support for it.”

They don’t have it and it’s getting worse for them with everything they do. Oh yeah, plus they don’t have the military.

You are replying to me over something I didn’t say. Probably a different post

I think they are trying to find a way to sink Trump and we are fighting back

If this cheap punk thug thinks he is going to pull off a hitpiece on our President, he has another think coming.

Yes, he indeed has another think coming.

Rush wrote: Well, unless he [Mueller] comes up with the golden bullet, but I don’t think it exists. It would have been heard of by now.

Actually, we don't give an 0bama if Mueller comes up with "the golden bullet". We're not going to have our votes for Trump stolen by the Uniparty/FakeNewsMedia/Deep State.

There's going to be trouble right there in Potomac River City if they try it.

If Mueller comes up with a “golden bullet” it will be manufactured evidence just like Dan Rather cooked up with his source.

There will be trouble all over my friend, and the Antifa people will learn what they are messing with.

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