{"id":233013,"date":"2017-05-11T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=233013"},"modified":"2017-05-12T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:21:16","slug":"are-we-missing-the-mother-of-all-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/11\/are-we-missing-the-mother-of-all-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Missing the Mother of All Scandals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So what\u2019s actually bigger news in terms of how it affects the country and the people who live here? Aetna insurance quitting the Obamacare exchanges next year<\/a>, or no evidence of Trump colluding with Russia? Does anybody…? Can anybody tell me what this collusion is alleged to be? Can anybody? Originally they said that the Russians hacked the election, so what was the hack? There is on-the-record testimony from election officials — both parties and President Obama — saying it\u2019s impossible to affect the vote and the counting of the vote. Not possible.<\/p>\n

\"\"Obama on down: “It\u2019s not possible. Can\u2019t happen, didn\u2019t happen; Russians didn\u2019t try.” So what is the hack? Podesta\u2019s emails? Well, that wasn\u2019t a hack. That was a phishing attack that Podesta fell for. Had Podesta not been an idiot, his emails would have never ended up anywhere. What\u2019s the collusion? Does anybody know? You ought to know. Since last July, the FBI\u2019s been investigating Trump and the collusion with Russia. What is it? Have you ever heard anybody ever identify what the collusion is? Do you know? Does anybody know? Is there any place that I can go to find out what the Russians did?<\/p>\n

“No, Mr. Limbaugh! That\u2019s why the investigation must go on.” Okay, so there has no evidence of any collusion yet. Well, why do we think there has been collusion? Because Hillary lost? Why do we think this? What is the collusion? Did the Russians somehow make Podesta fall for a third-rate phishing scheme? Did the Russians arrange for Hillary to set up her illegal, home brew server? Did the Russians help the Democrats conspire against Bernie Sanders to cheat him out of the Democrat nomination?<\/p>\n

Because that did happen. Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz and the Democrat Party did it. I think these investigators had better be very careful of what they wish for. What if this investigation eventually reveals collusion between Barack Obama and Russia on any number of things? What if this investigation eventually reveals collusion between Russia and the Democrat Party? There isn\u2019t any with Trump so far.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are we missing the mother of all scandals here? And I don\u2019t say this haphazardly. Who weaponized the FBI against Donald Trump? Who started all of this? That, ladies and gentlemen, would be Barack Obama. Just as he has weaponized every other federal agency, the IRS to the EPA. Isn\u2019t a real scandal here that Obama sicced the FBI on his party\u2019s political opponent, the Trump campaign, the minute Trump won the GOP nomination? Where is there any outrage? And why? Why was there an investigation ongoing of the Trump campaign?<\/p>\n

\"\"Why did the president of the United States okay and maybe order an investigation of the Republican presidential nominee? Back in July. I\u2019ve got the stories. I\u2019ve got \u2019em here from the LA Times. I\u2019ve got \u2019em from the AP. There is no question, ladies and gentlemen, this happened. I\u2019ll give you just one example here. This is the LA Times: “Comey Says FBI Began Investigation into Russia Meddling in July.<\/a>” Why? What “Russia meddling”? “FBI director James B. Comey told Congress the FBI launched its investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election nearly nine months ago.”<\/p>\n

This is story is dated be back in March. “He said the FBI started investigating the matter in July and that its work was still in the early stages. He declined to say when the investigation might concluded. Comey refused to comment when asked by [a Democrat congressman from Connecticut] if the investigation had uncovered evidence of collision between Trump campaign associates and Russia.” We have a phony, fake, made-up dossier of fake events that did not happen, supposedly tying Trump to espionage in Russia, in Moscow. This is one of the most amazing hoaxes!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been going on since last July. We\u2019re coming up here on nine, 10 months here of this, with no evidence! We don\u2019t know what Comey has learned. We don\u2019t know what this investigation has produced. We know everything that his investigation of Hillary Clinton produced. We know every crime… Well, we don\u2019t every crime, because we don\u2019t know if they\u2019re still investigating her foundation or not. But we know about her server. We know about the classified emails. We know about all of this because Comey told us!<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know an iota of what they have learned in this investigation of Russia, and they have a fallback, “Well, we never announce the details of investigation \u2019til we\u2019re ready to take action on, until we\u2019re ready to close it.” “Well, when do you plan to doing that?” “Well, I don\u2019t know. As we sit here today, I can\u2019t tell you when this investigation\u2019s gonna end.” Wired.com: “Comey Confirms a Trump-Russia FBI Investigation Began Last July<\/a>.” Comey said, “I\u2019ve been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI as part of our counterintelligence mission…”<\/p>\n

Oh, that\u2019s another point. Whatever this investigation is, is not criminal. Donald Trump is not being investigated criminally, and that\u2019s what Comey meant. That\u2019s what Trump meant when he put in the letter to Comey… When Trump said, “Despite the fact I told you three times that I am not being investigated,” what that means is that Comey has told Trump it\u2019s not a criminal investigation; it\u2019s counterintelligence investigation.” Whatever the hell that is. At no time has it been a criminal investigation of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Do you know that from watching the media, or perhaps do you think that that\u2019s precisely what it is? What do you think the average low-information voter thinks when watching or reading the news? “There\u2019s a criminal investigation of Trump goin\u2019 on! And, by God, they must be getting close. See that? Because Trump fired the guy doing the investigation. Oh, my God!” Except the Colbert audience — a bunch of blithering idiots<\/a> — didn\u2019t have the slightest idea what it really meant when they were told Trump fired Comey.<\/p>\n