Posted on 04/04/2018 1:59:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: I just saw a piece during the break by Jonathan Turley. He has a piece at TheHill.com. And he is genuinely curious why the media won’t give this up. And he compares it to people being given a terminal medical diagnosis. They go through stages of denial, but ultimately they end up accepting it.
So he says for months now and dragging on into years, the media has refused to accept the reality that there isn’t any evidence linking Trump to any collusion with the Russians. Now, you and I know that there isn’t any period, that the collusion with Russians all happened with Hillary Clinton and we all know that this dossier’s fake. I mean, that’s why I think this is one of the biggest scams and hoaxes that has been perpetrated in the American public in the political arena in my lifetime and maybe ever. This is perhaps the biggest political scam and scandal ever.
The exact opposite of what has happened is being investigated. What has happened that was illegal is being ignored. And in fact, it’s being covered up. The real scandal, the real collusion is Hillary Clinton, the Democrat National Committee, the intelligence communities, the FBI, the Obama administration, that’s the collusion, to try to destroy the Trump campaign and then his election, his presidency, and the transition.
But Turley writes that the media is gonna have to come to grips here with the fact that, especially after Mueller last night saying Trump’s not a target, that there isn’t any evidence, and the fact that they won’t acknowledge this bothers him greatly. Which it should. But it doesn’t surprise me. Mr. Turley, if I may be so bold, I think you need to reexamine the way you look at the media.
There isn’t any news in America anymore, and there isn’t any real reporting. The media is misnamed. The media has become its own political entity. And people discuss it as such. It’s the most amazing thing. A collection of journalists is now openly discussed as a political faction that both parties must deal with, except one party doesn’t have to deal with it because they’re on that party’s side. In fact, they are that party. They are the Democrat Party.
The media, Mr. Turley, considers themselves part of the investigation. The media’s not sitting around waiting for Mueller to tell ’em what he’s found. The media are Mueller’s investigators. The media may as well be on his team. Not officially of course, but if Mueller says there isn’t any evidence, the media’s gonna say, “Well, we’re not through looking ourselves. There has to be evidence, and we’re gonna find it no matter what. And if you don’t, we will. And we may not be able to take our evidence to court, but we’re gonna take it to CNN and the New York Times and the Washington Post and we’ll deal with it that way.”
The media’s not interested in Trump being exonerated. The media is not interested in truth here. The media has a desired outcome. As I say, it’s a mistake to even call them media now. Media implies that they’re a bunch of reporters doing journalism, running around seeing things nobody else does and then telling everybody about it so that we’re all informed. Long, long ago was that ever the case.
The media is now its own political faction or party or identity or what have you. And they are every bit as involved in the political process as any other political organization or individual. That they continue to be called the media is just a furtherance of the game, of the illusion, that there’s some kind of arbitrary objectivity going on here, when of course there isn’t. The media has become willful accomplices of the special counsel, of the FBI, going all the way back to Obama utilizing them to help him spy on Americans who are opposed to his Iran deal.
When Obama found out that they would report whatever they were fed, that they wouldn’t even challenge it, wouldn’t even try to corroborate it, wouldn’t even try to verify it, they just run with it, the Obama administration realized what they had. So if they want to report that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, all they’ve gotta do is tell a couple of ace reporters that will publish that without question and then everybody’s off to the races.
The media can’t admit, Mr. Turley, that it’s been wrong here. They are every bit as much a part of the investigative unit as Mueller’s lawyers are. They’re going about the investigation in different ways. Of course, they don’t have subpoena power, and they don’t have an imprimatur from the Justice Department, but they have their own power base. They have their own means of using threats and blackmail and what have you to get what they want out of people.
So Mueller reports Trump’s not a target, he remains a subject, which means he remains under investigation. But in the U.S. attorney’s official manual, the owner’s manual — if you’re a U.S. attorney, you get a manual, you get a handbook just like when you get a car. And it defines certain terms and explains proper behavior, improper behavior and what have you. And in the manual, it defines what a subject is and what a target is.
And essentially for our purposes here, a subject is somebody still interesting, might have value in getting to the end, but it is not a target. Meaning they haven’t found any criminal evidence to link this person to the crime being investigated. And that’s what Mueller effectively told Trump’s lawyers a month ago, or sometime last month.
Now, going back to Rosenstein and his original charge of Mueller, you know this because you’ve listened to this program enough, that Rosenstein did not follow regulations when Mueller was appointed. Normally when a special counsel is appointed — not normally; it should be always because Justice Department regulations and rules require that the attorney general, or in this case the deputy attorney general, specify a crime to be investigated. That is in fact why there is a special counsel named and appointed.
Well, Rosenstein did not do that. Rosenstein said, “Go out and look at Russian collusion. Look at any collusion between anybody and the Russians in the election.” It was a wide open — and it was done on purpose this way! It was done as a wide open with no boundaries fishing expedition. The problem for Rosenstein and everybody else is that there are brilliant lawyers in conservatism and in conservative media, and they quickly realized and began writing frequently that something’s amiss here. There has to be a crime mentioned. There has to be a crime stipulated for the special counsel to follow.
So for months and months and months Mueller’s off and running and going anywhere he wants, no limits, no boundaries. Can’t even find a crime, much less have one stipulated. And all this time, people like Andy McCarthy and others are writing that a serious element of this has been avoided, has not been utilized, and that’s required, and that’s the naming of the crime.
So Rosenstein finally figures out that he better do that. So Rosenstein last August 2nd writes a memo explaining to Mueller what his limits are, what his boundaries are. And that’s where this gets interesting. Because cutting to the chase here — remember the predawn raid on the home of Paul Manafort? That raid happened a week before Rosenstein’s memo authorizing an investigation into Manafort was written and presented to Mueller. And so it’s a logical question, “Well, why is Mueller investigating Manafort and conducting predawn raids when he doesn’t have specific permission to do so?”
Rosenstein a week after the fact publishes the — well, doesn’t publish it. Writes it, presents it to Mueller. Mueller writes a response. All of that ends up on file. When it’s made public, Rosenstein’s memo to Mueller is heavily redacted, but it satisfies after the fact, long after the fact that a crime was stipulated to that Mueller should investigate. But there’s this problem of the predawn raid.
And so a question I was asking all morning, is that relevant? ‘Cause one thing I’ve found. Common sense, after you hear a series of events, you have what’s called a common sense reaction. I have found that in Washington, a common sense reaction is often irrelevant and meaningless because common sense is not what drives the town.
So I wanted to know if it was relevant that Rosenstein’s memo authorizing the investigation and punishment of Manafort was written after the raid on his home. Here’s what I was told. Yeah, it’s probably very relevant. It was in late July probably within the week before the memo. If you look at the appointment order, they were precisely not in the scope of the investigation. The May 17th appointment order spells out a counterintelligence investigation with no criminal allegations, no mention of Manafort, no nothing. It was just wide open.
And my buddy here says: “I think Rosenstein came to realize this is a big problem. Mueller was doing a criminal investigation when one had not been authorized! It was counterintelligence, what he was doing.” So 10 weeks after the fact, Rosenstein writes this memo in which he now basically says, “Hey, you’ve had this authority all along, even though I failed to mention any of it to you” in the appointment order. So it’s ex post facto.
What Rosenstein’s essentially saying is, even though I didn’t write this before your investigation began I could have and I probably should have, but I didn’t so since I could have, you are now authorized to do what you did when you were not authorized to do it. That is Mueller is taking criminal investigative actions without formal written authority like the raid on Manafort’s home in the weeks between May 17th when he was appointed and the August 2nd memo. And in the memo, Rosenstein cover’s Mueller tracks by saying, “No problem. You’ve had this authority all along.” But he hasn’t.
In cut-and-dried legal procedures, he hasn’t had the authority. He was granted the authority ex post facto on the basis that, “Well, had he asked to investigate Manafort, he would have been told he could have, so essentially he’s had the authority all along.” Now, stop and think about that. Try to put the reverse into this.
Let’s say that you are in your house and you have a bunch of buddies, and you are buying and selling drugs. And outside your house are a bunch of law enforcement people who know very well what you’re doing in there. They know you’re trafficking in drugs, they know you’re selling it, they know you’re distributing it, and they come storming in! They forget to get a warrant. They come storming in.
Your lawyers say, “Ever since you came through our front door, everything that happened is unconstitutional, illegal, ’cause you didn’t get a warrant.” And the investigators say, “It doesn’t matter. The judge would have given me a warrant anyway if I had asked. So you guys are still guilty even though we didn’t get a warrant,” and the court agreeing with the police. “Yeah, they would have had the warrant if they’d a asked, so we may as well make this whole investigation legal.” That’s what’s happened here!
The point is, there’s very little chance that that police investigative team would get away with breaking into a house or storming a house without a warrant. But in this case Mueller has been permitted to do all of this that he’s done with Manafort without any authority for it. And then when called on it, Rosenstein says, “Well, he would have had the authority if he’d asked for it. I mean, that’s a fait accompli. So, no, there’s nothing untoward here.” And the hell there hasn’t been.
And then I ran across this sentence. This sentence blew me away. My friend writes to me: “But because the regulations would have allowed Mueller to go back at any time and ask Rosenstein for authority to do the Ukrainian case against Manafort, I don’t think there’s any chance the indictment’s gonna be dismissed. Manafort wants this indictment tossed just like your drug buddies with the police breaking in without a warrant would want that whole thing tossed.” And my buddy says, “And there’s no way. The Justice Department’s not gonna allow this thing to go awry because of something as silly as Mueller didn’t get permission and would have had he asked and all that.”
I have to tell you, folks, this sentence blows me away, because here’s what this sentence is, when you translate it. This is the Justice Department. This is Rosenstein and Mueller. This is essentially what they’re trying to tell us. Even though we violated the rules and regs of the DOJ, we really didn’t, because we’re from the government, and the perpetrator is scum, and I could have gone back at any time and got the permission to investigate. And because the fix is in I would have been authorized anyway. So because I could have, even though I didn’t, this perp is still gonna fry.”
Now, Manafort’s asked for all this to be dismissed on the basis that none of this had been authorized. And the thinking is that he’s gonna lose it because the DOJ doesn’t lose. And that’s why I say we don’t have scales here, much less balance. There’s no scales of justice in this. There’s no way to fight this kind of thing. If they can assign to themselves the legal principle that, “Hey, yeah, we didn’t get permission, but we would have had it if we’d a asked for it at the right time. So because we would have had it we’re just gonna act like we had it all along, therefore you’re guilty.”
How can anybody fight this? Well, this what Trump’s up against. That’s what all these other people in this investigation are up against because this isn’t an investigation. This is the criminal politicization of policy differences. This is the criminalization of somebody winning the presidency the Washington establishment doesn’t think should have won.
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RUSH: Now, folks, don’t misunderstand me here. I realize that most bad guys are bad guys. I realize that most people charged with a crime are guilty of some degree of it, most. But not everybody. But that’s not my point. My point is that everything involved in this investigation is political. It isn’t criminal, and it certainly isn’t counterintelligence.
This investigation is avoiding the real collusion, is avoiding the abuse of power straight from the Obama administration, they are purposefully avoiding it. Paul Manafort would never have been charged with any of this, there would have never been a predawn raid in Manaforts’ house. You would never have heard of this guy if he had not accepted the offer to work for Trump during the primaries to help alleviate the irregularities in delegate apportionment after primaries. If Paul Manafort had never signed on to Trump, he wouldn’t be involved in this and none of this would ever happen.
What does that say about whatever crimes Manafort’s committed here? They would have been ignored. They were ignored during a previous investigation of what all was going on in Ukraine. What we have here is the criminalization of political differences.
And now the government is telling everybody that it is free to exempt itself from its own laws while Manafort can’t, you and I can’t. And in this kind of circumstance, nobody has a chance. Flynn, what a joke this is. Is losing his house, losing everything he’s ever worked for. As I say, there are no scales of justice here, much less balanced ones.
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Muller’s investigation reminds me of counting Florida chads...had it gone on long enough, Al Gore would have been president.
Headline sure nails it. One thing they are ignoring at their peril. It’s not Trump who is the problem. It is we the people who identified with him as the solution. We are next.
Trump is going to have the last laugh:
Very confusing piece by McCarthy who is undoubtedly confused himself.
If I’m wrong, feel free to enlighten how this weighs toward the President having the last laugh.
Rush is really cranking up the heat on Mueller lately. He must have sources telling him the Swamp is about to make its move.
Had dinner last Friday with a former high level FBI officer who was a high ranking official with internal affairs. He retired in 2013 because he was disgusted with what he saw going on. He knows McCabe and the whole cabal says they are all traitors. He severed his relationship with the McCabes when he left. He also knows Horowitz and Huber and says they are on the level and that the whole rotten cabal is running scared. You have speculation I have the facts. Trust me that everyone appointed by Obama was loyal to him. This is not a one-sided fight as too many of you are programmed to think.
” was loyal to him”
Correction : “was not loyal to him”
April 19 and the IG report are approaching....
I have been worried since the first day that Mueller will never be stopped in finding something to get revenge against Trump for Mueller’s inseparable loving friend Comey being justifiably fired. A process crime,a missed signatuere on an old real estate document,a misremembered date on something—the pro-Hillary and pro-Obama investigators hate and despise Trump (and us) and will get him.
I pray that I am wrong.
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Wait’ll the Deplorables go all Negan on The Swamp...
The more I read McCarthy, the less I am favorably impressed.
It's actually a three-sided fight, because the Cabal hasn't neutralized the Trump supporters, unlike the way the Clinton supporters were neutralized in the impeachment wars of 1998-99.
I can't believe that the Cabal doesn't see that.
There's a few million of us who will see red if they pull any crap on President Trump.
That was not what I was referring to but appreciate your sentiments which mirror my own. I think you may be reading something different into what I posted.
McCarthy’s piece was written commending Rosenstein and then criticizing him but then commending him. Seriously, I was looking for the punchline that he would write something to point to the President having the last laugh.
So while your sentiments mirror my own, McCarthy’s write-up didn’t affirm any of it, at least not what I could see.
Agree 100% except that there will be more bleeding red, not just seeing red.
If Mueller and his masters think we should remain law-abiding while they mock the law, they’re in for a surprise.
Many of us who have never been convicted of a crime are going to take it to the streets if they try to hang the President on some bogus obstruction of justice charge.
Yup.
We're done with their clown show.
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