Posted on 12/12/2018 4:49:20 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: So, if you are just tuning in, Michael Cohen, President Trumps former lawyer, fixer, whatever, has just been sentenced to three years in jail, 36 months in prison, federal prison. Primarily because he worked for Donald Trump.
Actually, his crimes that hes being sent to prison for, the really bad ones have nothing to do with Trump. He engaged in massive $1.4 million tax fraud, has to make restitution of that. Theres a $500,000 reimbursement hes gotta make to somebody and a $50,000 fine. So hes gonna be sentenced in about three months. Whats he gonna be doing in the next three months? (interruption) Well, no. Hes not gonna be doing interviews yet.
By the way, I need to correct something. I said that now that hes been sentenced and hes testified that his use to the media has ended and expired. I need to amend that. Thats not true. This guys gonna have 60 Minutes profiles while hes in prison. What have you learned? Would you have accepted job offers from Donald Trump knowing what you know now? What is your opinion of Donald Trump as president? What did you think of Donald Trumps buildings? Did you ever know of him taking shortcuts that risked the sanctity of his structures?
Its never gonna end in that regard until they get rid of Trump, and, even if theyre able to do that, theyre not gonna stop trying to destroy Trump. More of that in just a second here. No, the next three months hes not gonna be doing any media because hes going to be exclusively chatting with Robert Mueller. And I know this because of Lanny Daviss statement. Lanny Davis is a lawyer, and Lanny Davis issued pretty much a statement that you can read between the lines and the stitches on a fastball, both of which I am proficient at doing, its very clear that Cohen is going to spend whatever time Mueller wants in the next three months, if Mueller wants sleepovers with Cohen, thats what Cohens gonna do.
Whatever Cohen can say to Mueller about Trump to get that sentence reduced is what these next three months are gonna be. Hes going to try to satisfy Mueller. Now, we all know what thatll mean. So that Mueller will think that his contributions have been significant and may in fact warrant a reduced jail sentence in which Mueller could file a petition, brief of the court informing the judge that Mueller has been even more cooperative than anybody ever imagined and, as such, Judge, we recommend taking a couple weeks off the sentence or whatever theyre gonna do.
I still think that what Cohen has done here is really attempt to ingratiate himself with the media. This is really what he wants. He want to be a media darling, a media hero. He wants to be treated with adulation and respect for the rest of his life in the Drive-By Media. And hes taken the big first step in so doing by appearing to help in the effort to get rid of Donald Trump.
Now, we also learned just before the previous hour ended that the prosecutors at the SDNY, the U.S. attorneys office Southern District of Manhattan, New York and Manhattan, have made a deal with the clown that runs the National Enquirer, Pecker, is that his name, David Pecker?
See, Pecker was given immunity along with Cohen because Pecker was involved with one of these women. He paid, the National Enquirer paid I think it was Karen McDougal, thats her name, $150,000 for her story, meaning her story with and about Trump and then promptly buried the story, did not run the story.
And people are saying thats another illegal campaign contribution. This guy at the Enquirer, he was reimbursed 150 grand for paying that babe and then he sat on her story and that would have been harmful to Trump, therefore its an illegal campaign donation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It isnt either. None of these two payments, neither of them constitute impeachable offenses, and neither of them constitute campaign contribution violations. They just dont. And again, if they do, there are 268 members of Congress who are just as guilty and of course theyre not and they will never be prosecuted. But granting immunity and theres been a further deal made with the Enquirer guy. And Ill tell you where thats going.
It is, and I may be saying something to you thats been obvious forever, as it has been to me. But, my friends, I cant impress upon you any more than I already have this effort to get rid of Donald Trump is as focused and as intense and as purposeful and as energized as it has ever been. There is and has to be a literal hatred for the man, all based on one thing: that he ran for and won the presidency.
Donald Trump would not be facing any of this so-called legal jeopardy that hes facing today had he never run for the presidency. And if he had lost, he wouldnt be facing any of this. But this encompasses the Department of Justice. Thats the SDNY. U.S. attorney, Southern District New York, thats the Department of Justice. Robert Mueller, special counsel, Department of Justice, the FBI, intelligence community, they are still unified, and they are working hand in hand to destroy Donald Trump. They will not stop.
If they have to destroy his business, they will. If they have to destroy his family, they will. They want to. They are pursuing Donald Trump with more fervor and energy than I have seen them pursue terrorists. I have seen Department of Justice terrorists argue for leniency for terrorists and take terrorists side against waterboarding or so-called torture.
I have seen people in the DOJ and the Obama DOJ have more solicitousness and more tolerance and more understanding for people who participated in 9/11 than they have for Donald Trump. It is flat-out amazing. And then you add to that group of people the entirety of the mainstream media, and Ive never seen anything like this.
I was alive during the pursuit of Richard Nixon, and Im telling you officially now that the pursuit of Richard Nixon pales in comparison to what is going on here. Its personal and professional, like it was with Nixon. They despise Donald Trump personally. And its over the most childish things. They dont like that he tweets. They dont like what he says when he tweets. They dont like that they think hes stupid! They dont like that they think hes unsophisticated.
What they really dont like is that he doesnt know his place. And his place is Queens. Hes not even qualified to be in Manhattan society. Hes an interloper in Manhattan. His familys from Queens. Hes not even in the upper strata of New York society. And he doesnt deserve to be, and hes pretending top, and he did everything he could to succeed and become a force in Manhattan, and they resent the hell out of it.
The fact that he then took that success and entered the political sphere, thats theirs. They own it. They determine who succeeds and who doesnt. They determine who profits and who doesnt, and they havent been able to lay a glove on him so far, and they cant believe it, and they are frustrated to no end. They have thrown everything they have, from fake news to phony allegations from anonymous sources from the intelligence community for a year and a half and every major newspaper and cable network in this country. They have lied, they have blasphemed, they have impugned, they have done everything they can to cast Donald Trump in as inhuman a light as they know how to do.
He has survived it. They think the Democrats winning the House is step one in getting rid of him. But theyre not gonna leave it to elections. Theyre mad at you for electing him in the first place. They have as much resentment for those of you who voted for him as they have of him. It has gone beyond a simple political objective to get rid of somebody they think is a political opponent. It is now deeply personal with every one of these people involved.
They are pursuing people on the basis of criminality that they ignore, behavior they ignore in 99% of the population. They are calling acts that Donald Trump has engaged in that people all over this country engage in multiple times a day, theyre calling it criminal, and in some cases, the worst crime in American history. The crime is that Trump won. The crime is that he outsmarted them. The crime is that he has not sought to include them in his administration.
He has not sought their counsel. Hes not sought their advice. He has not asked them to become part of what hes doing. He continues to criticize them open and in some cases by name. And this is simply not permitted in this club. Donald Trump apparently represents an even greater threat to the elites of Washington and New York than we even knew. And it obviously goes beyond whatever policies Trump believes in. It goes beyond immigration issues and the wall and travel bans and this.
When they start criticizing Trump because of his hair and the way he speaks and hes not sophisticated, it is the essence of irrational personal, irrationality personal. Its difficult to describe. They are attempting to scare and frighten anybody who might agree to join his administration. They are trying to make Donald Trump a poisonous pariah who will result in anybody working for him being destroyed.
The message is, You see what were doing to Trump? If you join him, you become his chief of staff, you become this or that, were gunning for you too. Dont care how much weve love you had in the past, dont care how much weve respected you. If you join this guy were gonna destroy you right along with our efforts to destroy him. They want to isolate Donald Trump so that the only thing he has is his voters. Because in the big scheme of things, the voters dont really matter to these people. Otherwise they wouldnt be doing what theyre doing.
Theyre attempting, right in front of our eyes, to overturn the result of the 2016 election. There is no sanctity of the vote. There is no acquiescence to the will of the people. There is resentment for it. Theres contempt for it and for you who voted for him. And I think theyve now concluded that separating you from him is the last thing, and its probably gonna be the hardest to do. Theyre still gonna try to drive his approval numbers. The easiest way to get rid of him would be to succeed in driving his approval numbers down to 30. Thats why I wouldnt be surprised if in opinion polls not now, but starting in 2019. These people can poll whatever they want and they can report whatever they want. They can ask any question they want designed to get any answer they want.
So dont be surprised if you see Trump approval numbers start to show at 43, 42, then 40, and theres gonna be that magical day when the Trump approval number is 39. And when that happens, youre gonna think that its Christmas Day to these people as you watch them report it. But thats the objective because they know they dont have impeachable offenses, and they know that the likelihood of getting 67 senators to vote to impeach, if Trumps approval numbers are in the forties, mid-forties or higher, is probably not going to happen.
The Republicans run the Senate, even though theres probably a lot of them there that despise Trump, theyre not gonna slit their own throats unless Trumps numbers are down to the thirties, preferably the low thirties. Then theres nothing to lose by joining the chorus of demands that he leave.
Ive been aware of the seriousness of this and of the intensity of this from the get-go. But just watching cable news today in the Cohen plea, the aftermath of the Cohen sentencing and then the announcement, the glee with which the deal thats just been made with the National Enquirer people and realizing that this is coming from the Southern District of New York. This isnt even coming from Mueller, although they are working hand in hand, dont misunderstand. But these are not Mueller pronouncements, Mueller deals. Theyre not part of the collusion with Russia business.
This is totally ancillary stuff. That the only reason any of this stuff is even usable is because regulations were violated and a crime was not specified when Mueller was named. So Mueller has basically been able to go out and find or invent or create any crime he wants. And remember with these people they dont have find a crime. They just have to say they did. They dont have to find an impeachable offense. They just have to say they have. All they gotta do is get those words in the media: impeachable offense, high crimes and misdemeanors, Donald Trump campaign violations, Donald Trump paying off porn stars.
The never-ending assault. And its simply because they cant stand to have this guy in their midst. They cannot stand to have this guy in the White House. And I dare say that in many cases, in the case of many people, the things Donald Trump is accomplishing, the agenda and issue items that Donald Trump is succeeding with are things that many of these people have devoted their lives to and they still hate the guy and they still want him gone and they still cant stand it. Its a class thing. And by class, I mean, high class, low class, upper class, elites, ruling class versus the hoi polloi.
But its despicable, what is happening here. And very eye opening for a lot of people who didnt think things like this could ever happen in the United States. This is the kind of stuff that happens in totalitarian regimes, but not here, but yet here it is happening day to day right in front of our eyes.
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RUSH: Folks, now, look. I didnt tell you all this stuff to be fatalistic about it. Im trying to keep you engaged and supportive and involved in this. Dont misunderstand the last opening monologue of the hour. Thats not woe is us and its over. Its designed to keep you ticked off and loyal and not just to Trump, but loyal to what Trump represents.
Remember, the issues that we all care about existed before Trump. Trump is the guy who came along and finally gave voice to them in a way that people believed he meant it. This is not meant to disparage Trump. But this movement and these issues and these desires are gonna remain even after Trump serves his two terms, if he does. Trump has capitalized. Trump has the benefited. Trump has more than benefited. He has taken a movement here and personalized it and made it his own.
But its not that if Trump goes, the movement goes. Its not gonna go. And so the point here is to remain engaged and do not let them succeed in driving his approval numbers down to the thirties, even though they may issue polling data that is made up to try to do that. Its gonna be risky because if its not true, somebody can go out and prove that in a legitimate poll.
So please do not misunderstand what I just did here as an honest characterization of the status quo. I meant that as a means of firing people up, not depressing you. You gotta know what were up against. And, I mean, if some of you been asking, Cant Trump do something to make these people No! He cant do anything to make them like him. Theres no a matter of behaving presidentially thats gonna change this. These people have to be stopped and defeated.
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As far as I can tell, he did very little lawyering.
Destroying Donald Trump means destroying you and me
They already have el gordo de oxycontino.
Maybe you should’ve sounded the alarm during the O’muslim usurpation instead of hitting with the flat of the sword.
I just contacted the Whitehouse to remind them PDJT hasn’t tweeted his real approval numbers in a while.
They already have el gordo de oxycontino.
Maybe you shouldve sounded the alarm during the Omuslim usurpation instead of hitting with the flat of the sword.
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Dude, tear off the rear view mirror and forgive already...fight with whom and what you have, not whine about what you didn’t have.
Amen! That is what they want to do. President Trump stands in their way. He protects us and we should protect him. They also want to destroy our Constitutional form of Government along with our Constitution. And put in its place a segment of the One World Government.
Unless some democrats go to jail this is never going to end.
so far...not a single thing any of these two-bit actors has done, or even allegedly done, proves that PDJT did anything bad at all
nothing nada nil zilch
(but all these headlines and charges prove beyond question that the Muller witch hunt is both desperate and desperately in deed of SHUTTING DOWN!)
Indeed, President Trump has never had control of the DOJ nor the FBI and it is still full of Democrat operatives. Unless he gains real, aggressive pro Trump management at all levels of these two agencies, the slow bleeding and attacks will continue.
Jeff Sessions has done so much damage to this nation.
Completely agree with you there. Every day it infuriates me more and more how his recusal created the still evolving disaster with Mueller, now made worse by the loss of the House. No one can blame the President for being furious with Sessions. On top of that is the wasting of two precious years we can't get back chasing after potheads. Silent assassin indeed, but against us not our enemies.
"They" being the radical left, a dangerous mixture of Marxism/communism.
Thank you for the kind words.
Brilliant.
Rush says Its never gonna end in that regard UNTIL THEY GET RID OF TRUMP. Sloppy sentence structure or Rushs way of once again ramping up our angst and fears? Revealing his own nervous Nellie-ness? Or that hes in constant conversation with other nervous Nellies?
This isnt the first time Limbaugh has signaled to us that Trump is doomed. Trump was supposed to be the victim of a soft coup and gone by this time, according to Rushs projections in 2017.
I didnt tell you all this stuff to be fatalistic about it. Im trying to keep you engaged and supportive and involved in this. Like we need you to stay engaged? BS. Thats code for keep on listening to me and hanging on my every word about whats coming next. He is pointlessly injecting fear into the hearts of his listeners. How ridiculous. He stupidly identifies with Trumps outsider status which Trump has always easily brushed off throughout his entire career. Rush, not so much. A midget identifying with a giant.
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