Posted on 04/19/2019 11:31:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Hi, folks. Rush Limbaugh here and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Im just jumping straight into it. This report is exactly what I thought it was gonna be, and it is being reacted to exactly as I thought it would be reacted to. There is no need for a 400-page report. Theres only one reason for a 400-page report, and that is to create the news environment that is occurring right now.
This report could have been issued in one page: We found no evidence of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign, period, and we dont have enough to say that there was any obstruction of justice. You could have done this in one page, maybe two, and be done with it.
But, no. Ive had a chance to read some of this report today by no means all of it, its 400 pages. And, my friends, Im telling you, this report is made to order for the Democrat Party to ignore what is the only important thing about this: no collusion, no obstruction, period. Thats it!
But if you turn on cable news today and it doesnt matter what channel all youre going to get is ongoing discussions and reading of various excerpts from the report with expert analysts explaining how, Why didnt Mueller charge obstruction? Why, its all in here. No, it isnt.
This entire thing is bogus from the beginning. I am unable to avoid redundancy here, folks. Im unable to avoid repeating things Ive said over and over. None of this actually is real, except that it is. None of this was ever necessary. There never was any collusion, and there never was any evidence of any collusion.
This report is just the latest installment of the ongoing effort to convince as many Americans as possible that Donald Trump is illegitimate, that his election was illegitimate, that hes a bad guy and that he doesnt deserve to be president. He may not have colluded with Russia, but he sure as hell tried to get in the way of our investigation.
There should not have been an investigation, is the whole point, and this wasnt an investigation. This is the seminal point that I can make. It is incorrect to characterize what Robert Muellers thing was as an investigation. When Robert Mueller was shown the file, the James Comey investigation file, when he was shown that after having been named, there was nothing in it.
There has never been any evidence of collusion with Russia between Trump or anybody on his campaign to affect the outcome of the presidential election. And the attorney general said so today again and again and again. And this morning before the report was released the Drive-By Media and media complex and Democrat complex were livid that Barr was gonna go first. They were livid.
Well, this is what happens when you lose elections, Democrats. You dont get to set the agenda on things. The Justice Department does press conferences all the time announcing the results of investigations. Theyre out there claiming that this thing was rigged from top to bottom. Barr is acting as Trumps personal lawyer, ignoring for the fact that Eric Holder said a couple of times he was Barack Obamas wingman. They applauded that, didnt have any problem with that.
Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, these people are making fools of themselves, continuing now their belief that Trump did do something and no matter what Barr said today, this report is gonna prove it.
Lets go to Barr. This is what is important. Folks, I cant express this enough. And I wish I had two or three different ways of saying this all the same. This wasnt an investigation. It was an attempt at a coup. It was an attempt to throw Donald Trump out of office and nullify the election results of 2016. It was disguised as an investigation.
It was disguised as an attempt to find out if the Russians had indeed affected our elections. And so this thing that was actually a coup occurs under the auspices of an investigation, and everybody called it the investigation so it was established in the mind-set of the American public it was an investigation, but it never was.
You read this report as I said, I have had a chance to read some pages and it recounts everything youve read in the New York Times and the Washington Post about collusion before concluding there wasnt any! Its made to order for people who want to continue running this operation to get rid of Trump. It is made to order to be able to ignore and obfuscate what Barr has now informed and what the report itself informs. The report itself says there was no collusion.
So two years ago we start out here with a so-called investigation on collusion. The report admits there is none, that no American was involved at any time in any way colluding with the Russians to affect the outcome of the election. For two years this nation was roiled. For two years the people of this country were made to believe that there was such collusion, that their president was a traitor.
Now on the day the report comes out, that has been forgotten, as though it never happened. And now it is the president obstructed justice. And Mueller has conveniently dropped 10 little bird drops in there for the media to explore and examine. Ill give you an example. We cant conclusively exonerate thats a partial quote. Thats not the standard. People dont have to prove their innocence in this country. Thats by no means the standard here.
We cannot exonerate. Thats not the role of the prosecutor. Its not the role of any investigator. You cant exonerate somebody, and they cant exonerate themselves. Thats why verdicts are guilty and not guilty. Not not guilty and innocent. Not not guilty and exonerated. Theres no such thing.
We are unable to conclude no criminal conduct occurred. Youre unable to conclude that no criminal conduct then what the hell are you writing 400 pages for? You dont do this to people youre attempting to prosecute. You find nothing on em and then submit a 400 page report about it? That isnt done except in this case.
The Drive-Bys are really focusing on something in the report. Apparently one of Trumps lawyers, Don McGahn, says that Trump told him hes fed up. Hes fed up with Sessions, hes ticked off at Sessions, he wants Sessions to go out there and denounce Mueller. And McGahn says that Trump told him to go fire Mueller but McGahn says I dont want to do that because I dont want to create another Saturday Night Massacre.
Well, how about looking at it from Trumps perspective. He knows hes being set up here. He knows that he didnt do what all of this is alleging day in and day out four or five times a day for two years in every media outlet in this country. He knows he didnt do it. He knows theyre trying to run him out of office. He knows that in their term hes innocent. What would you do in this circumstance?
But the bottom line is, Mueller wasnt fired. So now theyve gotta say, Well, Trump wanted to. His intent was to obstruct. I heard Jeffrey Toobin actually just say this. If you intend to obstruct justice, you may have well have obstructed justice. No, you dont obstruct justice just by intending to. That requires third-party testimony what do you mean? He intended to obstruct justice, therefore he did? He didnt. They cooperated, millions of documents. The president answered written questions.
Mueller was not fired. Nobody on Muellers team was fired, even though Trump had all of the power in the world to fire him if he wanted to, and firing Mueller would not have ended the investigation. So we start out two years ago, two and a half years ago collusion, collusion, collusion, collusion, and today thats all gone, and now were focusing on our president obstructed something that this report says did not happen.
And Mueller has written it for this exact, precise reason so that this can continue. He even says, Mueller even says in this report, Congress still has the opportunity to find obstruction of justice. Never mind Barr has looked at it, a lot of people looked at it, we dont find any of this rises to the level of obstruction of justice. Doesnt matter to the media, doesnt matter to the Democrats. And then heres old Bobby Mueller turning over the responsibility now to Congress.
But Trump knew from the beginning of this that he was innocent. He knew that he didnt collude with Russians. Yet hes sitting there having to watch this. Its one of the reasons hes mad at Sessions for recusing himself in this. It did not happen. Sessions didnt collude. Sessions didnt have any reason to recuse himself.
This report reads, in fact, as if Trump was supposed to cooperate in his own obstruction. And because he didnt, hes guilty of obstruction. Donald Trump attempted to obstruct our coup, is how this should read. Donald Trump attempted to obstruct our effort to throw him out of office, is how this report should read. Heres Barr. We go to the audience starting at the top.
Barr talks release of redacted Mueller report
BARR: The special counsels report states that his, quote, investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities. I am sure that all Americans share my concern about the efforts of the Russian government to interfere in our presidential election. As the special counsel report makes clear, the Russian government sought to interfere in our election process. But thanks to the special counsels thorough investigation, we now know that the Russian operatives who perpetrated these schemes did not have the cooperation of President Trump or the Trump campaign.
RUSH: Bingo. Thats it. A report could have said the same thing in one or two pages, but it didnt. There are 400 pages. You know what I also zeroed in on? I zeroed in on the Papadopoulos section. I wanted to see what they said about it, because so many people think thats when this investigation began. There wasnt an investigation. They tried, they tried to make everybody believe that the Papadopoulos incident is when they got worried.
They set up that whole Papadopoulos thing. They put the words in his mouth, they put the words in his mind, and they arranged for him to repeat the words about Russia having Hillary emails to a bunch of different people that report back to the FBI. I wanted to see what the report says about. The report lays it out exactly as it happened, and it makes it look like it was a legitimate reason to investigate. It mentions Mifsud, mentions Stefan Halper, mentions everything here. And a lot more.
If you read this report, got John Podesta globe-trotting all over the planet bragging about the fact the Trump campaign knows that there are Hillary emails in the possession of Russia. Well, if thats the case, then how is Trump found not guilty of colluding? You read this report and you would be able to once the media goes beyond their obstruction stuff Im gonna make a prediction to you.
Theyre focusing on obstruction because they know there wasnt any collusion, but once they go back to this report on the collusion part, theyre gonna be able to revive everything and theyre gonna be able to ask questions, Why did Mueller find no collusion? Look here. Theyre gonna be able to go to the Papadopoulos story, theyre gonna be able to go left to right, top to bottom, up and down, make it look like there sure as hell there was collusion cause this guy Papadopoulos was globe-trotting all over the world bragging about what the Trump campaign knew. Doesnt mention that Papadopoulos was set up by the FBI in any of this.
Heres the next Barr sound bite, which ought to be sound bite two of the only worthwhile news story today.
BARR: The special counsel did not find any conspiracy to violate U.S. law involving Russian linked persons and any persons associated with the Trump campaign. So thats the bottom line. After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election, but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those efforts.
RUSH: Right. So statement number two should be open and shut, thats it, thats all this was about, was there Trump-Russia collusion. Two different statements from Barr. The fourth time now Barr has made this conclusion or reported it. And heres the final bite we have from Barr on this.
BARR: After finding no underlying collusion with Russia, the special counsels report goes on to consider whether certain actions of the president could amount to obstruction of the special counsels investigation. After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other department lawyers, the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.
RUSH: Well, you may as well ignore that because thats all youre gonna be seeing on cable news the rest of the day if youre gonna watch it. Youre gonna see examples, youre gonna see proof, youre gonna see angry Democrats, youre gonna hear allegations that Barr is on Trumps team and trying to cover up his obstruction.
And all the while keep in mind no collusion, no collusion, two years, no collusion, made official for the second time today. And yet there was all of this obstruction of something that did not happen, that the special counsel admits did not happen. So we have a political document here written by pro-Hillary investigators and Mueller, designed to create the very news environment that we are in the middle of today.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: So the Robert Mueller report Another way to look at this, folks, is persecution by public insinuation rather than a legitimate investigation and enforcement of the law. One of the things the Drive-Bys are harping on is that in the report, Mueller and were paraphrasing the way Mueller wrote this. But Mueller says that Trumps public statement and Trumps public actions can be considered obstruction. Now, again, Im trying to avoid the, Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah! See, I told you so.
Mueller Report: No Collusion or Obstruction. Period.
Apr 18, 2019
RUSH: Hi, folks. Rush Limbaugh here and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Im just jumping straight into it. This report is exactly what I thought it was gonna be, and it is being reacted to exactly as I thought it would be reacted to. There is no need for a 400-page report. Theres only one reason for a 400-page report, and that is to create the news environment that is occurring right now.
This report could have been issued in one page: We found no evidence of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign, period, and we dont have enough to say that there was any obstruction of justice. You could have done this in one page, maybe two, and be done with it.
But, no. Ive had a chance to read some of this report today by no means all of it, its 400 pages. And, my friends, Im telling you, this report is made to order for the Democrat Party to ignore what is the only important thing about this: no collusion, no obstruction, period. Thats it!
But if you turn on cable news today and it doesnt matter what channel all youre going to get is ongoing discussions and reading of various excerpts from the report with expert analysts explaining how, Why didnt Mueller charge obstruction? Why, its all in here. No, it isnt.
This entire thing is bogus from the beginning. I am unable to avoid redundancy here, folks. Im unable to avoid repeating things Ive said over and over. None of this actually is real, except that it is. None of this was ever necessary. There never was any collusion, and there never was any evidence of any collusion.
This report is just the latest installment of the ongoing effort to convince as many Americans as possible that Donald Trump is illegitimate, that his election was illegitimate, that hes a bad guy and that he doesnt deserve to be president. He may not have colluded with Russia, but he sure as hell tried to get in the way of our investigation.
There should not have been an investigation, is the whole point, and this wasnt an investigation. This is the seminal point that I can make. It is incorrect to characterize what Robert Muellers thing was as an investigation. When Robert Mueller was shown the file, the James Comey investigation file, when he was shown that after having been named, there was nothing in it.
There has never been any evidence of collusion with Russia between Trump or anybody on his campaign to affect the outcome of the presidential election. And the attorney general said so today again and again and again. And this morning before the report was released the Drive-By Media and media complex and Democrat complex were livid that Barr was gonna go first. They were livid.
Well, this is what happens when you lose elections, Democrats. You dont get to set the agenda on things. The Justice Department does press conferences all the time announcing the results of investigations. Theyre out there claiming that this thing was rigged from top to bottom. Barr is acting as Trumps personal lawyer, ignoring for the fact that Eric Holder said a couple of times he was Barack Obamas wingman. They applauded that, didnt have any problem with that.
Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, these people are making fools of themselves, continuing now their belief that Trump did do something and no matter what Barr said today, this report is gonna prove it.
Lets go to Barr. This is what is important. Folks, I cant express this enough. And I wish I had two or three different ways of saying this all the same. This wasnt an investigation. It was an attempt at a coup. It was an attempt to throw Donald Trump out of office and nullify the election results of 2016. It was disguised as an investigation.
It was disguised as an attempt to find out if the Russians had indeed affected our elections. And so this thing that was actually a coup occurs under the auspices of an investigation, and everybody called it the investigation so it was established in the mind-set of the American public it was an investigation, but it never was.
You read this report as I said, I have had a chance to read some pages and it recounts everything youve read in the New York Times and the Washington Post about collusion before concluding there wasnt any! Its made to order for people who want to continue running this operation to get rid of Trump. It is made to order to be able to ignore and obfuscate what Barr has now informed and what the report itself informs. The report itself says there was no collusion.
So two years ago we start out here with a so-called investigation on collusion. The report admits there is none, that no American was involved at any time in any way colluding with the Russians to affect the outcome of the election. For two years this nation was roiled. For two years the people of this country were made to believe that there was such collusion, that their president was a traitor.
Now on the day the report comes out, that has been forgotten, as though it never happened. And now it is the president obstructed justice. And Mueller has conveniently dropped 10 little bird drops in there for the media to explore and examine. Ill give you an example. We cant conclusively exonerate thats a partial quote. Thats not the standard. People dont have to prove their innocence in this country. Thats by no means the standard here.
We cannot exonerate. Thats not the role of the prosecutor. Its not the role of any investigator. You cant exonerate somebody, and they cant exonerate themselves. Thats why verdicts are guilty and not guilty. Not not guilty and innocent. Not not guilty and exonerated. Theres no such thing.
We are unable to conclude no criminal conduct occurred. Youre unable to conclude that no criminal conduct then what the hell are you writing 400 pages for? You dont do this to people youre attempting to prosecute. You find nothing on em and then submit a 400 page report about it? That isnt done except in this case.
The Drive-Bys are really focusing on something in the report. Apparently one of Trumps lawyers, Don McGahn, says that Trump told him hes fed up. Hes fed up with Sessions, hes ticked off at Sessions, he wants Sessions to go out there and denounce Mueller. And McGahn says that Trump told him to go fire Mueller but McGahn says I dont want to do that because I dont want to create another Saturday Night Massacre.
Well, how about looking at it from Trumps perspective. He knows hes being set up here. He knows that he didnt do what all of this is alleging day in and day out four or five times a day for two years in every media outlet in this country. He knows he didnt do it. He knows theyre trying to run him out of office. He knows that in their term hes innocent. What would you do in this circumstance?
But the bottom line is, Mueller wasnt fired. So now theyve gotta say, Well, Trump wanted to. His intent was to obstruct. I heard Jeffrey Toobin actually just say this. If you intend to obstruct justice, you may have well have obstructed justice. No, you dont obstruct justice just by intending to. That requires third-party testimony what do you mean? He intended to obstruct justice, therefore he did? He didnt. They cooperated, millions of documents. The president answered written questions.
Mueller was not fired. Nobody on Muellers team was fired, even though Trump had all of the power in the world to fire him if he wanted to, and firing Mueller would not have ended the investigation. So we start out two years ago, two and a half years ago collusion, collusion, collusion, collusion, and today thats all gone, and now were focusing on our president obstructed something that this report says did not happen.
And Mueller has written it for this exact, precise reason so that this can continue. He even says, Mueller even says in this report, Congress still has the opportunity to find obstruction of justice. Never mind Barr has looked at it, a lot of people looked at it, we dont find any of this rises to the level of obstruction of justice. Doesnt matter to the media, doesnt matter to the Democrats. And then heres old Bobby Mueller turning over the responsibility now to Congress.
But Trump knew from the beginning of this that he was innocent. He knew that he didnt collude with Russians. Yet hes sitting there having to watch this. Its one of the reasons hes mad at Sessions for recusing himself in this. It did not happen. Sessions didnt collude. Sessions didnt have any reason to recuse himself.
This report reads, in fact, as if Trump was supposed to cooperate in his own obstruction. And because he didnt, hes guilty of obstruction. Donald Trump attempted to obstruct our coup, is how this should read. Donald Trump attempted to obstruct our effort to throw him out of office, is how this report should read. Heres Barr. We go to the audience starting at the top.
BARR: The special counsels report states that his, quote, investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities. I am sure that all Americans share my concern about the efforts of the Russian government to interfere in our presidential election. As the special counsel report makes clear, the Russian government sought to interfere in our election process. But thanks to the special counsels thorough investigation, we now know that the Russian operatives who perpetrated these schemes did not have the cooperation of President Trump or the Trump campaign.
RUSH: Bingo. Thats it. A report could have said the same thing in one or two pages, but it didnt. There are 400 pages. You know what I also zeroed in on? I zeroed in on the Papadopoulos section. I wanted to see what they said about it, because so many people think thats when this investigation began. There wasnt an investigation. They tried, they tried to make everybody believe that the Papadopoulos incident is when they got worried.
They set up that whole Papadopoulos thing. They put the words in his mouth, they put the words in his mind, and they arranged for him to repeat the words about Russia having Hillary emails to a bunch of different people that report back to the FBI. I wanted to see what the report says about. The report lays it out exactly as it happened, and it makes it look like it was a legitimate reason to investigate. It mentions Mifsud, mentions Stefan Halper, mentions everything here. And a lot more.
If you read this report, got John Podesta globe-trotting all over the planet bragging about the fact the Trump campaign knows that there are Hillary emails in the possession of Russia. Well, if thats the case, then how is Trump found not guilty of colluding? You read this report and you would be able to once the media goes beyond their obstruction stuff Im gonna make a prediction to you.
Theyre focusing on obstruction because they know there wasnt any collusion, but once they go back to this report on the collusion part, theyre gonna be able to revive everything and theyre gonna be able to ask questions, Why did Mueller find no collusion? Look here. Theyre gonna be able to go to the Papadopoulos story, theyre gonna be able to go left to right, top to bottom, up and down, make it look like there sure as hell there was collusion cause this guy Papadopoulos was globe-trotting all over the world bragging about what the Trump campaign knew. Doesnt mention that Papadopoulos was set up by the FBI in any of this.
Heres the next Barr sound bite, which ought to be sound bite two of the only worthwhile news story today.
BARR: The special counsel did not find any conspiracy to violate U.S. law involving Russian linked persons and any persons associated with the Trump campaign. So thats the bottom line. After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election, but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those efforts.
RUSH: Right. So statement number two should be open and shut, thats it, thats all this was about, was there Trump-Russia collusion. Two different statements from Barr. The fourth time now Barr has made this conclusion or reported it. And heres the final bite we have from Barr on this.
BARR: After finding no underlying collusion with Russia, the special counsels report goes on to consider whether certain actions of the president could amount to obstruction of the special counsels investigation. After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other department lawyers, the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.
RUSH: Well, you may as well ignore that because thats all youre gonna be seeing on cable news the rest of the day if youre gonna watch it. Youre gonna see examples, youre gonna see proof, youre gonna see angry Democrats, youre gonna hear allegations that Barr is on Trumps team and trying to cover up his obstruction.
And all the while keep in mind no collusion, no collusion, two years, no collusion, made official for the second time today. And yet there was all of this obstruction of something that did not happen, that the special counsel admits did not happen. So we have a political document here written by pro-Hillary investigators and Mueller, designed to create the very news environment that we are in the middle of today.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: So the Robert Mueller report Another way to look at this, folks, is persecution by public insinuation rather than a legitimate investigation and enforcement of the law. One of the things the Drive-Bys are harping on is that in the report, Mueller and were paraphrasing the way Mueller wrote this. But Mueller says that Trumps public statement and Trumps public actions can be considered obstruction. Now, again, Im trying to avoid the, Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah! See, I told you so.
But this was also predicted that the report would be very unflattering, would castigate Trump as a human being and would allege all kinds of nefarious behavior on the part of the president. What Muellers report says is that every time Trump spoke on this, he was either tampering with witnesses or he was trying to confuse future witnesses or he was intimidating or attacking the prosecutor or whatever. Now, heres the point in all this. Its exactly my point. This report is full of this kind of innuendo and allegation.
Yet the conclusion on both in the report is nothing. No collusion and we dont think we can go after the president on obstruction. All of that is being overlooked, its being ignored, and they are attempting to erase it, and instead now start from ground zero using this report to construct a brand-new charge that Donald Trump obstructed justice. And thats why theres no collusion! Because Trump succeeded in intimidating witnesses. He succeeded, and thats why there arent any indictments because Trump is a bad guy.
And this is horrible, what theyre doing here.
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Grab sound bite number 21. Rudy Giuliani was on Fox just before the program began and was asked for his initial reaction and what weve learned so far.
GIULIANI: Well, were very, very happy. I mean, its a clear victory. I think any lawyer would say when you get a declination, you just won. Now, this is a little strange because the special counsel has used a standard of proof thats unheard of. He says he cant be conclusively sure that the president didnt commit obstruction. Well, you know, that means the president has to prove his innocence, which kind of upends 2,000 years of jurisprudence. But be that as it may, he says, We cant conclude the president committed a crime but we cant exonerate him. Well, nobodys asking him to exonerate him.
Giuliani reacts to details emerging from Mueller report
RUSH: Oh, not so, Mr. Mayor. Thats become the standard. And Mueller didnt exonerate. Mueller threw that one little sentence in there. We cant conclude the president committed a climb, but we cant exonerate. Thats all he needed to put in there, thats it, and theyre off and running now, and Im gonna show you how.
Heres Jake Tapper on CNN mere moments ago theorizing about why there were no obstruction of justice indictments. Wait til you hear this.
TAPPER: The reason why more White House aides or administration officials have not been themselves indicted or charged with obstruction of justice is because they ignored President Trumps orders. President Trump could tell the White House counsel Don McGahn fire Robert Mueller, Don McGahn said to himself no, and therefore Don McGahn is a free man.
The same thing with Corey Lewandowski or any number of other individuals named in the Mueller report is that the way that all these administration officials preserved their freedom and are not in jail right now or at least charged and in court right now is because they refused to carry out the orders that President Trump demanded of them.
RUSH: So you see how this is gonna work. What the hell is that? This is manufacturing crimes where none occurred and none are alleged. This is all under the rubric of obstruction. Don McGahn, one of the White House lawyers, in the report says that Trump told him to fire Mueller and that McGahn refused to do it cause he didnt want to relive the Nixon days. And so theyre theorizing, thats the only reason McGahns not in jail, if McGahn had carried out Trumps orders, hed be charged, hed be in jail.
No. The president can fire anybody he wants. Look, the way to understand this, its just an ongoing parade of additional fake news. Look at it this way. Look at it as the fuel supply for the original two years of conclusion has run out and today Mueller filled the tank.
The Drive-Bys pulled their SUV in here, which was out of gas, nearly out of gas after two years of trying to get Trump on collusion, and the gas station attendant is Mueller, and Mueller fills the tank of their SUV and theyre off and running down the road now on a whole new tack, Trump obstructed justice, all because Mueller, when he filled up the tank said, We couldnt find anything to charge him with, but we cant exonerate him.
And then he knows once these guys start looking at the report folks, the report is just a rehash of everything in the New York Times, all the fake news in the New York Times, all the fake news in the Washington Post is in this report, to one degree or another. And the impression the report leaves is that Trump attempted to obstruct our coup to throw him out of office, and for that we werent able to find any evidence, but we think he did it, so we cant exonerate him.
Their objective is to make everybody forget the only thing that matters here: no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Thats what they want everybody to forget. But again, I feel like I am not doing my job right if I even acknowledge that premise. Because this wasnt an investigation. And Im unable to talk about it that way because everybody thinks this was a valid investigation.
Ive got to do my commentary on this under that premise. But I dont believe the premise. I dont believe this was an investigation. I think this was an attempt to get rid of Donald Trump despite the fact there was no evidence. They wanted to get rid of Donald Trump cause they didnt like him. They wanted to get rid of Trump because they wanted Hillary. Whatever reason you want to conjure.
There has never been any collusion. Theres never been any evidence. There was no reason to collude. These two years should not have happened. And yet here we are, on the one hand, we are applauding yet again the conclusion that theres no collusion between Trump and Russia. Now we find the need to defend Trump on this bogus business of obstruction when there is no collusion that happened, therefore no obstruction theoretically could have happened.
Why would Trump want to obstruct something he didnt do? Why would he want to obstruct an investigation of something that he didnt do? The only reason would be that he doesnt trust the so-called investigation. And again, folks, it wasnt an investigation. This was not a legitimate attempt to find out if the Trump campaign colluded with Russia because theres never been any evidence that he did. This was an ongoing effort.
They tried to thwart Trumps primary election. They tried to thwart Trump during the transition. They tried to rig the presidential election against him for Hillary. And when all that failed, the objective became impeachment by driving his approval numbers down as low as they could get them.
Let me get started on the phones here, cause everything Im saying here is true, but Im starting to feel guilty of repeating it so damned often, but Im at my wits end. I hate to see these false premise news stories give life. I hate to see them injected with new life. This entire thing is a false premise. This the whole thing is a lie. It is a gigantic, false construct.
Im having so much trouble talking about it within those confines. This needs to be reconstructed and repositioned as to what it really is, because the way this thing has been structured, everybodys now going out trying to prove Trumps innocence again, which you cannot do! Thats why our system of justice does not require it.
The prosecution has to prove your guilt, and they didnt, and yet look where we are. Were still now back and doing a 180, maybe a 360, where all of a sudden Trumps gotta prove that he didnt do it, this time on obstruction. But it doesnt matter. They dont care what did or didnt happen. They just want the narrative. And Mueller has given them that.
I guess the one thing we can hope for is that these people, the Democrats and the media, begin to look like the absolute lunatics that they are, their inability to give this up. The New York Times banner headline should be, Mueller Report: No Trump-Russia Collusion.
But thats not what the headlines gonna be. The report didnt need to be longer than two pages. Trumps lawyer, John Dowd, is exactly right.
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RUSH: Heres the bottom line. The bottom line is that Donald Trump was exonerated. I dont like the use of that word in all of this, but he was exonerated. They found no evidence of collusion. Most people think it was a legitimate investigation. Nothing. Theyve got Trump on nothing. Zilch, zero, nada. The president has been vindicated. And that is the news of the day, and that is why the media is in meltdown. The media is literally in meltdown and cannot cope here
The bottom line is theres nothing attached to Donald Trump that was alleged to have attached to him. The Russians did not elect him president. He didnt collude with them. It was his achievement. It was his accomplishment. Its one of the greatest achievements and accomplishments in American politics for what he overcame and who he overcame and the ongoing attempt to get rid of him after he won.
They failed. The bottom line is the effort to get rid of Donald Trump has failed, and so now all theyve got is all they ever had is flaying away at impeachment. And where that is concerned, lets encourage them to do it! We got a little over two years before the 2020 election. We got 18 Democrats running for president who Im sure dont want to hear about impeachment. Lets well, not lets encourage it. Lets just not try to talk em out of it.
What we are dealing with today is a collection of literally thousands of media people who for the past two years have known, quote, unquote, that they were gonna get Donald Trump. Theyve known it. They have trusted it. They have relied on it. They have believed it. Theyve gone to bed every night and awoken every morning believing that was going to be the day where the bombshell report was discovered that would send Donald Trump packing back down to Trump Tower once and for all.
That day never came, and now it wont. That day never came, and now it wont. They have realized it, and they are melting down here throughout the entirety of the Drive-By Media. Thousands of people are losing their minds because they were dead set certain that they either individually or collectively were going to get Donald Trump.
And they threw all of their marbles into the Mueller investigation, and the Mueller investigation has, at the end of the day, let them down. So now they are busy manufacturing chicken salad out of chicken poop.
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RUSH: By the way, little Pencil Neck is still out there today claiming hes got evidence of Russian collusion. At some point when does somebody demand that Pencil Neck produce it? You know, folks, Im gonna tell you something. When people claim they know there was probably obstruction of justice, but they couldnt find any, what do you call that?
You got Mueller, you got Weissmann, you got these pro-Hillary investigators, and they are saying, Well, we know there was probably obstruction of justice, although we couldnt find any, what do you call that? Thats called a witch hunt! Its precisely called a witch hunt. And, by the way, calling it a witch hunt equals obstruction, did you know that?
The Mueller report and I predicted this just this week the Mueller report even lists Trump calling the investigation a witch hunt as an example of an obstructive act. In analyzing the presidents decision to fire Comey, the following evidence is relevant to the elements of obstruction of justice.
It goes on to say, and the president followed Comeys termination with public statements that were highly critical of the investigation. For example, three days after firing Comey the president referred to the investigation as a witch hunt and asked, when does it end? Those actions had the potential to affect a successor directors conduct of the investigation.
Calling it a witch hunt. You know you didnt do, you know you didnt do whats alleged, you know it didnt happen, there is this massive team of people who hate you, who donated and helped Hillary Clintons campaign, and they are investigating you on this charge that you know it didnt happen. What would you do? It is a witch hunt.
And these clowns admitting, Well, we know there was obstruction, but we just couldnt find any, that is the definition of a witch hunt. Calling the probe a witch hunt, he might have done that a thousand times, so there might be a thousand pieces of evidence of Trump obstructing the investigation.
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RUSH: The Mueller report, by the way, only mentions collusion 23 times. (chuckling) Obstruction is mentioned 176 times in the Mueller report. Witch hunt is mentioned nine times. Patrick in Bemidji, Minnesota. Great to have you, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hello. Thank you for having me.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I want to talk to you about Schiff and his collusion. Hes been saying for over two years now he had all this evidence, and hes been blowing that smoke up our skirts now for this whole time. Why cant the Republicans subpoena him and supposedly get that evidence out of him? Now, if he doesnt have anything
RUSH: You cant subpoena a fellow member of Congress. You cant even call em stupid.
CALLER: There should a way to make him prove that hes got some kind of evidence to show up one way or the other.
RUSH: I agree with you! I agree with you! But he doesnt have to prove it. Hes a liberal Democrat. He doesnt have to prove it. If he were a Republican asserting this, the media would be camped outside his bathroom, his urinal, his house, his office, demanding to see it! But the media is not going to require Adam Schiff to produce his evidence, because theyre on his team. They are not there to make him look bad. They are there to promote what he alleges. So But I agree. He ought to be forced somehow to turn it over if hes got it.
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RUSH: Youre not gonna believe this. The Mueller report says that Trumps joke to the Russians to find Hillarys emails proves that they were working together. CNN is out there saying that the Mueller report proves that Trump was cooperating with Russia and WikiLeaks! How can they say that! The report doesnt say that. The report says there was no collusion. CNN is reporting that Trump cooperated with the Russians and WikiLeaks. But Trumps joke about the Russians comes up in the Mueller report.
They claim that it made the Russians try to hack Hillarys emails. Are you kidding? My friends, this This (sigh) Im speechless. Trumps jokes, Hey, Russia, if youre listening, maybe you can find Hillarys missing emails, and the report says that five hours later, the Russians started trying to hack Hillarys emails. Are you kidding me? Oh, my God. (sigh) Oh, gee And now CNN says, It wasnt a joke! It wasnt a joke! See? Trump cued the Russians to hack Hillarys emails.
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RUSH: Okay. Folks, a reminder. I have meeting tomorrow, not a vacation day. I dont know when I last took one of those. But Mark Steyn will be here guest hosting the program tomorrow, and I if all goes well (Im just kidding) will be back here on Monday. Hee-hee-hee.
RUSH: Look, keep a stiff upper lip out there. The Democrats think
Theyre renewed. Im watching Jerry Nadler. (sputtering) Aw, man, this this this is great! Mueller left us bread crumbs to impeach Trump a-a-and now we gotta go do it! So hang in.
Nadler and Schiff are not convinced Trump is innocent. Who will win this debate? Trump needs to tell his side of the story A.S.A.P.
Trump needs to have a few rallies now get himself in front of all this rehash junk.
So? You really think the left is going to walk away from this regardless of what the Mueller report says?
To make a long story short there is and always will be a segment of voters no matter whether the report was 1 page or 400 pages that are going to vote against Trump no matter whether the report says he is guilty or innocent that will use the very existence of this investigation as fuel to vote against Trump which they were going to anyway (and that includes the media) I don’t care about them. I am just sorry that it does not make them move out of the country. As for the rest, it will not change one vote.
C’mon people how can you not see this is nothing but a preemptive strike by the libs on the ton of crap about to come down on them?
Trump has beaten these jerks at every turn and it will be no different this time. So what if the media rehashes the same old crap from before? Does anyone honestly believe the people will find hem trustworthy now when the have not before?
This report was released on a Holiday weekend. Do you think that was an accidental? Do you actually believe the Dem response was not expected?
I am actually embarrassed for Limbaugh and his over the top response to the be of the lame left.
if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.
This statement in the report states the requirement for Trump to prove a negative. To prove something does not exist, that never existed, in order to declare exoneration.
An absolutely impossible task to put into the hands of a prosecutor evidence that does not exist, that never existed. The presumption of innocence, upon which all civilized societal law has ALWAYS been based is ejected just for this case all because of the blindness of hatred and wrath. (why it’s 1 of the 7 deadly sins) TDS madness.
Could you edit this to mean something?
” over the top response to the be of the lame left.”
Could you edit this to mean something?
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Certainly.
Should read
........over the top response to the BS of the lame left.
I think Rush used over the top comments to hit the DemonCRAPs hard. The treasonous DemonCRAPs and their Media cohorts participated in a crime. Both knew it was a hoax. They played it as a legitimate exercise. They wanted to get back at the Republicans who they thought revealed the Wikileaks emails. They wanted to get dirt on them. In their case, they used the Steele fabrication to surveil the Trump Team for dirt using the Intelligence community. Highly illegal. The actors in this Kabuki theater all should get prison time.
Now the DemonCRAPs are trying use diversion tactics to distract the Trump Administration from getting to the bottom of their illegal actions. The media is again an accomplice. This is obstruction of justice.
Collusiongate used illegal FISA Warrants to become America’s second Watergate.
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