Posted on 12/13/2018 5:32:06 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: What I want to start with today on the Trump stuff, two things here that are equally important. One of them thats important, potentially, the judge in the Michael Flynn case is named Emmet Sullivan. Emmet Sullivan is the judge in the Ted Stevens case, the Ted Stevens trial.
And, in that trial, the prosecutors, the same group of people on Muellers team, the prosecutors in that case suborned perjury from the star witness against Ted Stevens, a contractor, a home repair guy. They got Ted Stevens kicked out of the Senate for supposedly accepting a kickback of 150 grand for a remodeling job at his house that he didnt pay for. Thats what Ted Stevens was charged with.
That a contractor did a $150,000 remodeling job and gave him the work in exchange for whatever Ted Stevens could do for the guy as a senator. That guy, that contractor was asked to lie about Ted Stevens and what he asked for on the witness stand. Judge Emmet Sullivan found out about this and he raised holy hell with these prosecutors. He overturned the conviction of Ted Stevens after Ted Stevens was gone from the Senate.
They succeeded in defeating him in his election. It was too late to get his Senate seat back. But they overturned the conviction, and the lawyers in this case were sanctioned mightily by Judge Sullivan, and theyre back, and theyre on Muellers team. Sidney Powell has written about all of these people starting with Andrew Weissmann in her book that Amazon will not sell called License to Lie. I have quoted from that book.
I have cited that book. I have suggested that you try to find that book for almost nine months now. So now Judge Sullivan wants to see. Hes ordered Mueller to turn over all of the interview documents with Michael Flynn after we learned that the FBI in the White House did not tell Flynn that he was actually being interviewed and told him he didnt need a lawyer! He was set up. Michael Flynn a decorated military hero for 30 years was set up by the FBI on the orders of James Comey!
Judge Sullivan has now discovered this, and he has demanded by tomorrow that all the documents relating to the Flynn case be turned over to him. Now, among those documents will be sworn statements by Andrew McCabe and a couple other FBI agents that they dont think Flynn lied. McCabe was the one that did the interview, and they dont think he lied. He walked into the White House one day and wants to talk to talk to Flynn, and Flynn doesnt know whats up.
Its early days administration. Theyve just gone through the transition. So heres somebody from the friendly FBI were all in this together who wants to talk to him. Flynn said, Sure. What do you want to know? It was an interview. It was an entrapment interview, and they told him, No, no, no. You dont need a lawyer for this, and Comeys out there bragging about how he pulled this off, and hes getting laughter from the audiences that he tells the story to.
So Judge Sullivan has been there and seen all this, and to demand all of these documents by Friday? We can only hope. But I tell you, folks. Judges and prosecutors hang together like pole dancers and the pole. They just do. I mean, it was such a remarkable thing for Judge Sullivan to sanction the prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case. It was so unusual. Everybody thinks of justice as a set of scales that are equally balanced, and it isnt.
Prosecutors are before judges constantly. The same lawyers, the same prosecutors appear in federal court all the time. The judges get to know them. In some cases, this is true of defense lawyers famous, big-name defense lawyers. But the relationship between Theyre all government. Federal judge is government. The FBI is government. The DOJ is government. Theyre all government and in day-to-day acknowledgment, theyre all on the same team.
So theres always been massive amounts of leeway extended to prosecutors because the judges all figure, What are we doing here if the perp didnt do it? The perp must have done it or we wouldnt be going through all this. Ive learned this the hard way. There are these massive assumptions that if youre charged, you did it; that they wouldnt waste time charging you if you didnt do it. Well, thats crazy, and were seeing this now.
George Papadopoulos was set up. Flynn was set up. I think Trump has been set up in all this. So late yesterday, Judge Sullivan, overseeing the Flynn criminal case, ordered Mueller to turn over all of the governments documents and memos related to Flynns questioning by the FBI. By Friday! All of this happened one day after Flynns lawyers revealed that the FBI told Flynn not to bring a lawyer to his interview with them.
We could only hope that Judge Sullivan might want to know why the FBI misled Flynn, and basically interviewed him in a criminal intent without telling him this, and then telling him he didnt need to bring a lawyer, denying him legal representation! Judge Sullivan might want to know why the FBI took a far more aggressive approach in handling the Flynn interview than it ever did with Hillary and her aides, or even George Papadopoulos.
Now, the article here notes that the FBI agents took seven months to write up a 302 report. The 302 report is supposed to be done contemporaneously to document the interview. The 302 report just reviews what happens. It just reports what happened. It reports who said what after who was asked what. The 302 doesnt say, We think the perp did it, Judge! We think you need to sentence this guy for the rest of his life.
It just reports what was said, what was asked and it took em seven months! It could have been done in a day. The interview with Flynn was done. Its transcribed. You turn it over to the court. They took seven months to write up the 302. Now, given that Judge Sullivan overturned the conviction of Ted Stevens prosecuted by many of the same people who are on Muellers team there are people hoping that he might overturn this.
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RUSH: Folks, Ive been misspeaking here. Its Emmet Sullivan is the judge. Emmet Flood is one of Trumps lawyers. I get these Emmets and Brendans confused. I have a name in my mind, Brendan Sullivan. Brendan Sullivan is the lawyer who asked if he was just a potted plant during the Iran-Contra hearings. I think he was representing either Ollie North or Fawn Hall. Im not sure which.
So Sullivan goes with Brendan, in my head and Curt Flood, St. Louis Cardinals. Emmet Flood. So I got em confused. Its Emmet Sullivan is the judge. He was the star of Sidney Powells book, and hes the same judge thats (sigh) This case, the Flynn case should have never been brought and I hope that Judge Sullivan throws this entire thing out because of what theyve done to this man.
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RUSH: Theres not a lawyer in this country that was gonna ever send Michael Flynn away to jail no matter what they claim he did. The guy is a 30-year decorated military hero. He has done nothing but serve this country.
Now, Mueller with all of these redactions in the sentencing memo that was released is made to look like this guy is such a snake, folks. These people in this special prosecutors office, this whole cabal in the DOJ are just a bunch of snakes. Redacting all of that stuff makes it look like there may be some really, really bad, sinister stuff that Flynn did. It is so unfair.
Its just basically unfair what they have done to this guy. Theyve destroyed him financially. They forced him into copping a plea to something he didnt do that they set him up to do in order to save his family and the house. So they issue this sentencing document with all of these redactions made to look like, Wow! He must have really violated a bunch of national security that they He didnt do anything! Its all PR. Its all buzz. There wasnt a judge that was gonna send this guy to jail for a day. Hed get probation or some such thing.
Well, now Judge Sullivan wants to see everything that led into this. And when youre the FBI and youre in the White House casually there, and you run into Flynn, Hey, you got time for a little chat here? And you conduct what is an official interview that you dont tell him is official. In fact, you tell him he doesnt even need a lawyer, and then, after that, you charge him with lying even though the agent after the interview said, and two other agents agreed, that they dont think Flynn lied.
So what the hell is this charge about? Michael Flynns being punished for working for Donald Trump. Michael Flynn is a bowling pin that has to be knocked out of the way on the way to getting to Donald Trump. The same thing with Michael Cohen. And the same thing with Roger Stone and the same way with anybody they think they can chip out of the way in order to get to Trump. There isnt any justice in any of this. And Comey is in the thick of this.
When liberals get together and they think only themselves are in the room and its only liberals listening to other liberals, they speak freely. According to the FBI summary of Michael Flynns 302 interview, Andrew McCabe and FBI officials decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie during an FBI interview because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed. And they were concerned that giving the warning might adversely affect the rapport.
See, they didnt want Flynn to think he was being officially interviewed. So they didnt tell him that he had a right to have an attorney present. He would have known that if he would have known the reason this little chat was taking place, but he didnt even know that. The FBI walks into the White House. As far as Flynn knows, were all on the same team here! Flynn has no idea theyre coming to set him up.
They decided they would not warn Flynn it was a crime. Meaning they didnt say, By the way, you can get an attorney. By the way, if you tell us things that arent true, you could be in trouble. They didnt say any of that. And Comey says its cause they wanted Flynn to be relaxed. Thats not why they didnt tell him. They wanted him to slip up!
They were trying to create a process crime here in a so-called casual discussion setting that was actually an official interview. And it was Comeys idea. Comey said, Something I probably wouldnt have done or wouldnt have gotten away with in a more organized administration. Comey is saying if there had to be a bunch of people in the White House who knew what was going on, I couldnt have gotten away with this. Hes telling other liberals in the room how they pulled this off.
So they got a new administration led by Donald Trump from the outside, not suspecting that anybodys on the warpath to set em up or any of that, especially Flynn as a decorated war hero. He should have known. These are all Obama people. And Obama hated him. Flynn ran the Defense Intelligence Agency. Thats the defense departments version of the CIA. And he did so with distinction and great honor. And these guys came to set him up.
And Comeys admitting to some of his buddies, Yeah, probably wouldnt have done this if somebody in that White House had known whats going on, meaning they fully intended to take advantage of the naivete of newly arrived personnel in the Trump administration. Something I probably wouldnt have done or wouldnt have gotten away with in a more organized administration. So even this hes bragging about how he outsmarted this dimwit Trump and his administration. Yeah, outsmarted them by lying to them, by telling em, Yeah, you dont need a lawyer, yeah, dont worry lying to us. No warnings whatsoever.
Comey continued. He said in the Bush administration or the Obama administration, if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, youd have to go through the White House counsel. Thered be discussions and approvals on who would be there. And I thought its early enough, lets just send a couple of guys over there. Theyre not gonna know whats going on. And thats what they did. They sent a couple of FBI agents, including one of the management types, McCabe. And hes strolling around the White House and runs into Flynn, Hey, Mike. How you doing, buddy? And they sit down and they start having a chat!
Little does Flynn know its an official interview, with Comey admitting that they set it up this way. And look at the people Comey surrounded himself with. FBI is supposed to be interested in getting the bad guys; right? Justice personified, the flag and all of that. And who are the people Comey surrounded himself with? McCabe, Peter Strzok Smirk, Lisa Page. For crying out loud, Comey wasnt fired soon enough once Trump figured out the lay of the land here. Comey should have been gone the minute Trump won the presidency!
So after Comey is fired, he then helps engineer the hiring of Robert Mueller as special counsel by leaking classified information. Guess what Comey does now? Comey is teaching ethics at William & Mary College. Ethics. After bragging about the fact that they set up a 30-year military hero by not even asking the White House counsel if they could come over and conduct an interview with Flynn. They just strolled in, Hey, Mike, great to see you.
Flynn says, Hey, Andrew, whats happening, babe? And they start chatting. And from that Robert Mueller charges Flynn with lying. Even though McCabe later said he didnt think that Flynn was lying. So this is why Judge Sullivan wants to see all of the documentation and all of the memos. But Im sorry, folks, I think this is a bombshell.
James Comey admitting they bypassed normal White House protocol when he sent a couple of agents in there to interrogate Flynn. Something I probably wouldnt have done or wouldnt have gotten away with in a more organized administration. Bush or Obama, the FBI wanted to send agents in the White House itself to interview a senior official. Youd have to go through the counsels office. There would be discussions, approvals, who would be there. And I thought, its early enough in this Trump fiasco, Ill just send a couple guys over. And the audience, whoever Comey was speaking to here, they all started laughing about how clever the setup was. Comey said all this on MSNBC. And its clear that this is all ultimately a setup of Donald Trump.
Now, if theyve done this with Flynn, what have they done with Cohen, a guy who actually has committed a whole lot of crimes above and beyond way nothing to do with Donald Trump. But its just one setup after another after a totally false and fake premise: Russian collusion between Trump and Putin to steal an election.
By the way, I have now been informed License to Lie, the great Sidney Powell book, is available now at Amazon. It wasnt for a year or two, but its now available. I really would recommend it to you. Its gonna have you spitting mad. Its a page-turner even though its factual, its historical, but its not dry or dull at all. It starts out with the Enron trials, the task force. You will not believe what this bunch of prosecutors did to innocent people at Merrill Lynch. You will not believe what they did.
But as many of you as possible reading this book and learning what they did, youll have a far greater understanding of whats gone on in the entire Mueller investigation. But the Ted Stevens case, you have to read awhile to get to it. But Judge Emmet Sullivan eventually vacates the conviction and just chastises these prosecutors and demand they go to what is essentially prosecutor rehab, to relearn their jobs, to relearn ethics. I mean, suborning perjury of their star witness, making the contractor lie! Well, thats whats exactly been accused here!
Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, every number of people here are saying that Mueller is demanding that they lie about things in order to get a plea deal! And they dont know what to do! You never lie to these people even when they tell you to because if you lie to them once even after theyve told you to they can always deny they told you to lie and come back and get you later.
They get you coming and going, by design. Once theyve got their sights set on you, you cant slither out of this. Theyre gonna get you coming or going if youre in the way of where they ultimately want to go, and all of these people are in the way of where they want to go, which is Donald Trump and a political casket.
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RUSH: You know, all this talk about trying to peel away all of these people close to Donald Trump so they can have a beeline at him to finally impeach him and get rid of him, more than 25 people have been fired or resigned from the FBI DOJ over this nonsense.
Now, its not publicized much, theres not a lot of news made about it because it doesnt make that organization look good; so the Drive-By Media doesnt talk about it. But more than 25 people have been fired or resigned, including McCabe, including Strzok Smirk, including Page, including Bruce Ohr, including Bill Priestap, just a bunch of these people, plus Comey. Comey has been fired, he is gone. Top people that Comey had a hand in picking. Theyre all gone.
Now, maybe I shouldnt emphasize this as much because I dont know what Judge Sullivan is gonna do. All I know is what Judge Sullivan has done. And in the Ted Stevens case, folks, it was just outrageous what they did to that man. The thing I took away from it, after reading it, reading about it, it was obvious the prosecutorial misconduct. It was plentiful. There was lots of it, unquestionably.
There werent periods of confusion or indecision about it. It was slam dunk prosecutorial misconduct. And it took forever to deal with it. It was a major, major operation to even acknowledge it. These people, if nothing else, circle the wagons. This is the entire DOJ, from the judges down to the prosecutors, the line prosecutors, the clerical people, theyre all on the same team. And Im telling you, when they all get into court, there are so many assumptions that take place, and chief among them is that the perpetrator did it.
And so the bias that is extended to prosecutors in trials like this, whether its the result of unfairness or bias, I dont know, and its not even the point. Its just the formula. Its just the way it is and has been. Some defendants are a little rare. Its even tougher sometimes to convict a terrorist because we dont want to be accused of any kind of anti-Muslim bias or this or that. But in a case like Ted Stevens, a United States senator, its amazing. This case should have been thrown out months before it was.
The prosecutors in that case should have been sanctioned months before they were. The last step the judge took was sanctioning the prosecutors when it should have been a slam dunk with the first indication he had of what happened. The case almost survived the prosecutors suborning perjury. Thats how deeply ingrained the formula and the process on the prosecution side of these kinds of cases is. And I guess the overriding bias is that we wouldnt be here if the perp actually hadnt done it, if the perp was innocent, we wouldnt even be here.
But they ruined the career of a United States Senator named Ted Stevens over a $150,000, approximately, of a home repair bill! And they got the contractor to lie about it. The star witness. The whole case was thrown out. The conviction was vacated and overturned, after Ted Stevens had lost his Senate seat. He was a Republican from Alaska. He died shortly after all of this happened, and nobody knows whether the stress, the angst, the agita, had anything to do with his death.
But, I mean, its just outrageous. And it was such a hard thing to do. It should have been easy. It should have been a slam dunk. And this is one of the problems I think people have with the criminal justice system. One slipup by a perp and thats it, youre gone, buddy. The prosecution can slip up over and over again and the benefit of the doubt is extended, Oh, they didnt mean to do it, Judge, sorry. The 302, you know what, we submitted to you the wrong one.
Well, I can give you to the end of the week to make it right. Its just maddeningly frustrating. And then when I find out that these prosecutors, many of them whove been sanctioned and had to go to prosecutor rehab essentially, the equivalent of, and relearn ethics are on Muellers team! He hired em! Even after all of this. And many of them were on the Enron task force. And the Supreme Court of the United States overturned all those convictions!
And the ancillary people whose lives were ruined in the Enron trials, the Nigerian barge case ended up this was an offshoot of the Enron trial. The Nigerian barge case, a couple of people at Merrill Lynch that didnt do diddly-squat! Spent years in prison, lost their careers, nearly lost their families! They were innocent from the get-go! Judges, appellate judges wouldnt listen!
And now weve got the same scenario unfolding right before our very eyes, and this time the target isnt Ken Lay or Jeff Skilling at Enron. Its Donald Trump. And the people going by the wayside are not from Merrill Lynch and the Nigerian barge case. They are Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen and anybody else they can ensnare.
Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, are you kidding me? Russian collusion, tampering with the votes in the 2016 election and were now down to getting rid of a president because of payments to silence a porn star? When in 1998 we were told how silly this is, its just sex?
IS there an HONEST and FAIR Black Man in DC????? THAT would help my heart a lot!
The judge should also declare that the entire Mueller investigation is lawless and is disbanded. He should point out that the appointment of Mueller is fatally flawed in MULTIPLE ways - too many conflicts of interest, the appointment was by a conflicted person (Rosenstein) - and such a powerful position requires confirmation by the Senate.
AND - he should declare that every bit of evidence gathered by Mueller’s unethical team must be destroyed and by the ‘Fruit of the Poisoned Tree’ - can’t be used, and all convictions gained by Mueller are reversed.
AND - he should grant the people who were targets of Mueller have a legal right to seek financial recourse from Mueller and his team - to be paid by the people and NOT the government.
This is our last best hope of laying this conspiracy wide open. Let us pray that Judge Emmet Sullivan throws Andrew Weissman into the legal woodchipper, and this entire case with him. He ordered the OSC to produce all exculpatory evidence about 8 months ago. “The dog ate our original 302 statements so we had to create new ones” is not going to cut it.
Rush has been on FIRE for Trump all week. Never prouder to be a listener.
Never prouder to be a listener.
Ditto...
Ain't gonna happen. And Judge Emmit Sullivan ain't gonna do a damn thing except make noise.
Why do I believe that?
Point 1
DURING the Stevens trial, the judge (Sullivan) refused requests by the defense for a mistrial to be declared, after information was revealed that the prosecution had withheld exculpatory evidence.
It was not till three months AFTER the trial did Sullivan say, Yeah, ya know you are right. So yes, they overturned the case, but not till AFTER the elections.
Point 2
After 1 year listening to the Louis Lerner IRS scam, U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys in contempt of court after the IRS failed to produce status reports and newly recovered emails of Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, as he had ordered on July 1, 2015.
3 years later . . . .How did that turn out?
Point 3
Clinton Email
On August 20, 2015, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan stated that Hillary Clinton's actions of maintaining a private email server were in direct conflict with U.S. government policy. "We wouldn't be here today if this employee had followed government policy," he said, and ordered the State Department to work with the FBI to determine if any emails on the server during her tenure as Secretary of State could be recovered.
How did that turn out?
Judge Emmit Sullivan has been on the Flynn matter since end of December 2017. He has presided over several postponements of sentencing.
Point 4
Come on folks . . . the pattern is set, the FIX is in. All of this to appease us and keep us settled down thinking one day JUSTICE will be served.
Ain't gonna happen!
I doubt one in ten Americans understand that the American republic is at a precipice.
Flynn is right———he says he should have been warned about the consequences of lying to the FBI.
Isnt the FBI compelled to tell a subject that lying to the FBI incurs penalties? Kinda like a Miranda warning?
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