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Rudy Hired to Negotiate Graceful Exit — for the Establishment
Rush Limbaugh.com ^
| April 20, 2018
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 04/20/2018 1:45:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: The New York Post: Rudy Giuliani Joins Trump Legal Team, Hopes to End Russia Probe in A Week or Two.' He said that. Now, full disclosure, I know Rudy Giuliani. I play golf with Rudy Giuliani. We sometimes talk politics while playing golf, because Im full disclosure. No, hes never sent me a bill. Ive never asked Rudy legal advice.
In fact, we did meet one time at the Havana Club in Manhattan when he was thinking about running for president, and he was asking me what I thought would be important in his agenda for reaching out beyond the Northeast. And I told him. But he did not send a bill. I did not send a bill. Im telling people this cause I know Rudy.
Ive attended water volleyball games with Rudy Giuliani. I have known Rudy for many, many moons. And I have played golf. I have given Rudy cigar lighters. I have given Rudy a cigar holder for the golf cart. Im not making excuses because Im gonna tell you what I think some of this stuff means, and it is rooted in the fact that I know Rudy and some other things in addition.
First, heres Mark Meadows, Freedom Caucus, House of Representatives. These Comey memos were supposed to implicate President Trump? Really? On page 13, POTUS appears to instruct Comey to investigate and find the truth about whether his campaign team did anything wrong. Theres nothing in here even approaching obstruction of justice. And that is true.
And then Meadows tweets: If anything, these memos impugn the judgment of Director Comey. Hes the one apparently using the media to exaggerate concerns about interactions with the president. Hes the one leaking government and possibly classified documents to a third party. Come on! Its exactly right. These Comey memos are the latest in a yearlong salvo of things that have been designed to raise public opinion against Donald Trump.
I want to tell you why I think were in the final phases of this, and the reason I do is because Rudy is on the case now. The liberals during this entire year what has this year been about? Lets call it a year because thats the length of time that Mueller for, you know, few days here or there has been serving as the investigator. We know the investigation, quote, unquote, predates Mueller being appointed. We now know that Mueller was appointed because Comey wanted him appointed. Thats why Comey wrote the memos and leaked the memos. He wanted a special counsel. He got it.
But prior to that, the media was running its own investigation with leaks from nameless, faceless intelligence people. Lets call it a year and a half. For a full year and a half, theres been a premise that Trump stole the election by way of colluding and cheating with the Russians, that Trump knows it, the Russians know it, everybody knows it. They just cant find any evidence. Well, they cant find any because there isnt any. The whole thing has been manufactured, and it hasnt worked. It hasnt turned out the way those behind this effort intended it to.
The whole thing begins after Trump wins the election. They take this dossier that was a Clinton campaign work product. It was composed and written and paid for by Hillary Clinton. Its made up of a bunch of lies, a FISA warrant to spy on Trump and his campaign was secured on the basis of these lies. There has been a tremendous amount of illegality that has gone on here. In this ensuing year and a half, there are a lot of people at the FBI and at the DOJ who have broken the law. They have broken the spirit of the law.
They have conspired to undo a legal and duly constituted election, and the people here who are, I believe, legally exposed are all the people who have been trying to manipulate public opinion into demanding the ouster of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has not been found to have committed any of the offenses that any of those people have alleged in a year and a half.
Now, the effort to get Trump I believe has been the conspirators, if you will, the people involved in this if you want to name them, go ahead, the people at the FBI, the people at the DOJ, the deep state intelligence people, Clapper, Brennan, Obama, Hillary, all the people behind this, they end up being the people who are in legal jeopardy, not Trump.
Remember Ive told you that the objective that these people had, the expectation was that after six months Trump would be gone. Now, theyve never had any evidence, and theyve known they never had any evidence. What this has been has been an over-a-yearlong attempt to manipulate public opinion into demanding that Trump be dispatched. This has been an effort to drive Trumps approval numbers into the twenties. This has been an effort to have the American people, 75, 80% of them admit Trump was a mistake, shouldnt have voted for him, we need to correct the mistake as soon as possible. That would then have justified whatever legal action these people took.
You still need public opinion in this country. I know some of you think that the deep state thinks they can operate outside public opinion, and they have been, except what theyve been trying to do for this last year and a half is create and manufacture public opinion. All of these stories for a year, four or five of em a day, nameless sources, retired intelligence people, former intelligence people, nobody ever named, every story for a year. And there were sometimes four and five of em a day. The news in the stories, if you were a casual consumer of news, My God, this Trump guys guilty. My God, look at what this Trump guy did, even though every story had hidden in it somewhere a line to date investigators havent yet found any evidence. They had to put it in.
Theres never been any evidence for any allegation they have been made, for a year and a half, folks. So what was the purpose? I think these people knew that they couldnt just mobilize and throw Trump out of office. Thats what they wanted to do, but they knew they needed public opinion behind em to do it. And this yearlong effort has been, I believe now, an effort to have the public demand Trumps ouster.
You still need public opinion if youre gonna do something like this. And they have failed in this effort. There is nowhere near a majority of Americans who want Trump thrown out. In fact, the Democrats now, as we just learned, are no longer gonna even campaign on the premise that Trump should go, that Trump should be impeached, that Trump obstructed or colluded. Theyre not even gonna run on those issues, according to Paul Begala. It has been a year, a full year.
This is a dismal failure. Not only are the no closer to getting rid of Trump, they failed big time. And they used every weapon theyve got. They used Brennan. They used Clapper. Theyve used Obama. Theyve used Hillary. Theyve used nameless, faceless people in the intelligence community, reformed, retired, former this, former that, the number of people supposedly warning the American people how a dangerous thing this was. The Russians have stolen our election, the Russians have tampered, the Russians have defiled, the Russians have invaded.
The American people have not responded the way it was hoped they would. You see, my friends, there are still 300 million guns out there. This is still a country, despite the power the deep state people, despite the power the Washington establishment believes they have, they still cannot, just because they want to, throw a president out of office. They need public opinion. And if youre talking impeachment, it is purely a political process, and you need public opinion for it. And thats what this year have been.
Now, there have been ancillary objectives: To ruin Trump, to impugn his reputation. It has been an effort to destroy Trump in every which way with the ultimate objective being to get rid of him. To send him out of town in disgrace. To make him resign. To be able to walk up to Donald Trump like Howard Baker walked up to Richard Nixon and to say, Mr. President, we dont have any support for you remaining in the House of Representatives. We dont have any support for you in the Senate.
That was the objective.
They did it once.
They did it with Nixon.
They wanted to so destroy Trump literally and in public opinion that forcing him to resign, I think, was the objective, and they thought they would be able get this done inside of six months. In the process, they thoroughly misjudged public opinion because of hubris and arrogance. They refused to learn who the American people are that elected Trump. They refused to take them seriously. They refused to learn what makes em tick.
They refused to learn anything about them. They refused to even extend complimentary thoughts about them. The conclusion was that these people were a bunch of idiots that we cant leave the decision to. This proves that elections may not be the way to run the country. Look what these people did! They elected this reprobate, this boor, this ogre! They never had a chance at persuading public opinion because they never understood the bond that Trumps voters have with him. All they did was make fun of it and pretend that they could break it.
Cause, after all, hasnt this all been about separating Trump from his supporters? Its been the objective from the get-go. They knew they had to do that. If they could do that if they could break public opinion, break public support for Trump then it would be over for him. They could engender whatever they needed to to cause a resignation. Well, none of it has worked. And, by the way, if you want more detail on this, Ill be glad to, but I need to wrap this up because were going to a break.
Were at the point now where it hasnt worked.
None of its worked.
They havent destroyed Trump. They havent destroyed his reputation. They certainly have not raised public opinion to the point the American people want him gone. So what do they do? Comeys book didnt work. Comeys memos arent working. Nothing has worked. The entire U.S. media working in conspiracy-collusion with the intelligence community, with the DOJ, with the FBI, none of it has worked. Trump has survived and thrived through all of it and insult to injury hes implementing his agenda while all this is going on! They are beside themselves. Its failed. What do they do?
Enter Rudy Giuliani.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: By the way, let me clarify something. I dont think that its gonna be over in a week or two like Rudy said. Im not
That is not my point here. I think as we sit here today, Mueller is nowhere near finished, in his mind. But thats, I think, why Rudy has been appointed. Look, folks, theres some real damage that has been done here, all in pursuit of something that hasnt happened. I mean, these people have pursued the objective single-minded objective of getting Donald Trump thrown out of office or to resign office.
That has been the objective. In the process, there has been some real damage done to our country. These investigators, the American left, the Democrat Party, everybody the Never Trumpers who have joined this effort have all contributed to what I think is tremendous damage. Look at how many people now believe that the Russians can determine who wins our elections. Its not an insignificant number.
These people conducting this so-called investigation have succeeded in poisoning one institution after another in our country. They have succeeded in creating doubt about the fundamental decency, sanctity, and goodness of much of this country. In the process, they have given aid and comfort to the most sinister of enemies, people like Vladimir Putin. They have puffed him up on the world stage. Theyve diminished our own president. Theyve made Putin look like he was unstoppable, omnipresent, can do whatever he wants any time he wants and its BS.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Ive been thinking about this, folks. You know, the people running this investigation have tried to tell us that a candidate colluded with Putin and the Russians, and it didnt happen. There is no evidence for it. You and I have known from the beginning that it didnt happen. And they did, too! They knew it didnt happen. They wrote the dossier that made it up. They never did believe it. They may have come to believe it because they were so absorbed in it.
But this has been a scam. This has been a political opposition research effort from the get-go. And its design, its objective was to raise public opinion so high anti-Trump that he could not survive it. And after a year of this, what have they done in this year? They have attacked, they have weakened, they have come close to doing real damage to the entire American electoral process. In the minds of many Americans, its been poisoned.
The American media, the Democrat Party, and everybody in this anti-Trump movement has created doubt. We all have doubts every election of fraud here, fraud there. This is something entirely different. This is a foreign country that now, in the minds of many Americans, determines the outcome of our elections. They have destroyed so many institutions and traditions. And its ironic, while they accuse the Russians of having already done this when they havent, they have done it themselves in the course of this investigation.
They have built Vladimir Putin up, who is a real bad guy. There is nothing about Vladimir Putin to recommend itself. They have built him up to be unstoppable. They have built him up to be everywhere and all-powerful and that we cant stop Putin, that if Putin wants somebody to be president, thats whos gonna be president. They have done this selfishly. They have done this without regard for the damage to the country they are doing, all the while telling people that Trump did the damage.
All Trump did was win. All Trump did was outwork everybody. All Trump did was talking about making America great again. And it resonated. In the process of trying to destroy Trump and accusing him of destroying our election process and apparatus, they have succeeded in calling it into question. Trump hasnt. Now, to the extent that there are any adults left in Washington who realize this, this has to stop. It has been a political game. The game has been very vicious. Its been very mean. It has been destructive.
The game has been to destroy Donald Trump and everybody in his orbit and to destroy Donald Trumps business. That has been the game. That has been the objective. And the scorched earth that has accompanied this is the price that the scorchers were willing to pay. If there are adults left in Washington, I dont care of which party, then at some point this has to stop, because theyre pursuing nothing. And if they cant move public opinion to the point that it forces Trump to resign, then the whole efforts gonna be a gigantic failure.
Mueller can keep going and he can indict Jared, he can indict Ivanka, he can indict whoever he wants, put Flynn in jail. But thats all going to be a further bastardization of all this, because the objective has always been Trump. Somebody has to try to stop this. The media isnt going to. The people in the game are having too much fun getting up every day and looking for this invisible magic bullet.
But somebody has to bring this to a halt, somebody has to step up and try to save our entire electoral process, the assumption that it is aboveboard and that peoples votes count. Somebody has to step up and try to stop it. And I think that person might be Rudy. Im assuming that Rudy can make some headway, cause I think Mueller is also an adult.
I dont know how deeply Mueller is caught up in all this. I dont know how much he hates Trump. I dont know if hes doing this simply because they asked him to or if he asked for it. I dont know what his motivations are. I do know that if hes left alone, that he wont stop, he wont stop until the establishment buddies of his tell him to stop. And theyre not gonna tell anybody to stop until theyve ruined everything.
Their objective will remain get Trump no matter what. And nobody is gonna stop them. They will not stop themselves. Somebody is going to have to try to step up and stop this. And in the process of trying to stop it, somebody is gonna have to do come up with an idea that allows all of these people to save some kind of face. Because this has been a travesty. This has been worse than a hoax. This has been one of the most outrageous schemes, political scandals in the history of the country.
This entire so-called investigation is so bogus that it deserves to implode of its own weight, and the people who ran this thing deserve to be criminally and politically charged. It is simply unacceptable what has happened here and what continues to happen, because America is being torn down bit by bit. Americas enemies are being built up. Weve already had eight years of that with Obama. We had eight years of the country being apologized for, eight years of the Obama administration making excuses for America and believing we didnt deserve any of our superpower status.
Now weve got basically Obama people continuing the destruction under the guise of trying to root out criminality in our elections, i.e., Donald Trump colluding with Vladimir Putin. It is absolutely asinine. But theres no evidence. There never has been any evidence. And when did that not matter? When did that start not being a factor?
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Rick in Fort Myers, Florida. Its great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: The brain sex with Hillary is the reason why all the guys on the left are impotent, and thats why David Hogg is leading the Democrat Party. But thats not why I called.
RUSH: I thought you were gonna say something about Bill Clinton, of course, not have access to brain sex there for very long. Clintons interested in it.
CALLER: Well, hes a master at foreign relations if you know what I mean. But, anyway, the reason why I called is because, you know, I think Rudy Giuliani came onto this case for a reason, and that is that I think hes gonna be able to get Mueller to quietly bow out of this situation because I think Rudy knows a lot of whats coming his way and that, you know, it involves Mueller. And so with the information that, you know, all these papers are gonna be redacted with Mueller out of the picture. So Rudys gonna help (unintelligible) Mueller out of the stuff thats coming and so Mueller is gonna bow out or they may offer
RUSH: Im losing your connection here. Im getting every other word that youre saying, but I get your drift. You think that Rudy is gonna be able to talk some sense into Mueller, one adult to another.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: guiliani; presidenttrump
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posted on
04/20/2018 1:45:18 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
I can see that the Left would want enough time for this to subside before November.
They will want to portray any efforts to prosecute actual criminal acts by Democrats as a partisan witch hunt and it may be difficult to do so while they’re still engaged in an actual partisan witch hunt.
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posted on
04/20/2018 1:50:00 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Kaslin
Just what I thought. Rudy is going to treat the Mueller like you would the Japanese. Leave ‘em with a little FACE.
Yes, “saving face” can cut deals.
That gazillion$ Mueller spent lounging around the pool side, while searching for a guy named “Collusion” (said to be in the easy find, shallow end) looked sunny for awhile.
Looking closer through the clear water, however, Mueller found only empty pants, embroidered with a “C”.
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posted on
04/20/2018 1:59:49 PM PDT
by
RitaOK
(Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
To: Kaslin
He is giving them an offer that they cannot refuse at this point. There will be punishment but it will be lessened in exchange for the head of Obama.
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posted on
04/20/2018 2:00:30 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is target the Deep State is invulnerable")
To: DarthVader
“There will be punishment but it will be lessened in exchange for the head of Obama.”
That would be the sweetest thing, ever. *Fingers Crossed*
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posted on
04/20/2018 2:05:21 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
To: DarthVader
First order of punishment should be to lock up Mueller for this travesty of justice.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I predict that Rosenstein will resign within the next week.
He's the one that appointed Mueller and got this farce moving.
To: RitaOK
Hope Rudy has a dead-man-switch on any pertinent materials.
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posted on
04/20/2018 2:18:37 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
To: Rurudyne
Lady Justice with her blindfold and sword... are being replaced... by a blood red statue of a two-bit slut...
pulling her blindfold up to wink at Democrats while her sword's stuck in the back of a traditional American citizen.
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posted on
04/20/2018 2:28:19 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
To: Blue Highway
He should have to ride the Mare of Steel!
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posted on
04/20/2018 3:00:31 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is target the Deep State is invulnerable")
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
04/20/2018 3:02:00 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is target the Deep State is invulnerable")
To: Sacajaweau
*Fingers AND Toes Crossed* :)
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posted on
04/20/2018 5:10:59 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
To: Kaslin
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani previously served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Giuliani told the Washington Post:
“I’m doing it because I hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country and because I have high regard for the president and for Bob Mueller,” Giuliani said in an interview.
Guiliani joining team to negotiate exit of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is confirmation of earlier analysis on Mueller “referee” intent. The investigative and indictment balance was always between Hillary Clinton allies and President Donald Trump.
Robert Mueller was recruited by Clinton and Washington DC allies and those within the small group; and was/is generally facilitating the investigation of Trump as leverage.
If you look at Robert Mueller from the position of trying to protect his cherished Deep State institutions from horrible Trump swamp draining…. things begin to take a more accurate context. The only way for Mueller to protect his Swamp Allies and Institutions, was to generate leverage against Trump.
Having established only political leverage, nothing factually unlawful or illegal, the Mueller investigation begins to dry up. Leverage diminishes.
Without direct leverage against President Trump, Team Mueller moved to position leverage against those Trump cares about… that’s a secondary approach; but the secondary leverage approach is fraught with public noting Mueller is on a “witch hunt”… the investigation into outlying Trump allies becomes transparent in motive. Support for Mueller erodes amid independent-minded people.
Enter Rudy Giuliani, a political and legal Subject Matter Expert – with direct knowledge of evidence held by NYPD and NY FBI field office of gross criminal conduct by Hillary Clinton. (Weiner Laptop etc) Buried by SDNY Clinton Allies.
With Special Counsel Mueller having exhausted most of his investigative leverage, Giuliani enters to negotiate Mueller’s exit and discuss his team’s path of retreat and image face-saving.
The discussion from Mueller’s perspective will not center around Trump, but rather center around how much risk to Hillary Clinton, and by extension political allies within FBI and DOJ – including Obama White House, Mueller will permit.
Mueller will be looking to protect the interests of Obama, Clinton, Lynch, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, etc. and negotiating degrees of risk to the institutions each represents. This is the political horsetrading phase. The leverage cards held by each participant are laid on the table for discussion. Low leverage officials will be sacrificed by Mueller to protect those holding more leverage.
Giuliani is a well qualified person to present the Trump administration position within these negotiations. They are essentially negotiating who faces criminal prosecution and who doesn’t.
Ultimately protecting Obama and Clinton will be of higher importance to Mueller. If Mueller doesn’t protect Clinton, he knows her team will destroy everyone if she goes down. That scorched earth approach is a historic part of Team Clinton’s leverage. The stronger the evidence is against Clinton the more people Mueller will have to give up to protect her. The stronger the evidence against the corrupt institutions, the bigger the officials Mueller will have to sacrifice to save them.
Negotiating all this with Robert Mueller will likely be Rudy Giuliani’s primary job.
Likely the general public will never know the ultimate deal decisions. We will only be able to gauge the scale of corruption by the officials Mueller agrees to sacrifice.
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posted on
04/20/2018 5:37:38 PM PDT
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: Rurudyne
I think by reading what Rush said, there is one inescapable conclusion.
that is:
If Hillary Clinton couldn’t be president then, they (the Clintons and their minions) were going to blow it all up. Everything. There was not going to be anything to be the president of, and whatever remained, would be ungovernable.
That is a nutshell is what the Clintons wanted. Blow up everything, destroy the FBI, and thus any charges leveled by the corrupted FBI and DOJ, against Hillary would have almost no credence.
Heads I win, tails you lose.
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posted on
04/20/2018 6:20:15 PM PDT
by
Ouderkirk
(Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
To: Bratch
My fingers are crossed that DJT doesn’t forget why he was elected . . . to drain the swamp. Let The Beast take down Obama and every senior rat in his administration.
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posted on
04/20/2018 6:23:56 PM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(ArticleVBlog.com)
To: Kaslin
The American people have not responded the way it was hoped they would. You see, my friends, there are still 300 million guns out there.
Interesting line about the 300 million guns. Ironically on the same day of the insane anti-gun protests.
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posted on
04/20/2018 6:28:14 PM PDT
by
Finnwolf
(It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two and those who have not swords can still die upon them.)
To: DarthVader
"He should have to ride the Mare of Steel!" For this he shall pay!
That was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid.
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posted on
04/20/2018 11:05:26 PM PDT
by
Neanderthal
(As you import the third world, you become the third world)
To: Kaslin
I heard this live Friday morning. I’ve been listening to Rush since 1990, and he is still awesome.
No script, stream of consciousness, out comes genius.
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posted on
04/21/2018 5:05:24 AM PDT
by
JohnnyP
(Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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