{"id":233833,"date":"2017-05-17T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=233833"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:46:04","slug":"obama-actually-did-what-trump-is-accused-of-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/17\/obama-actually-did-what-trump-is-accused-of-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Actually Did What Trump Is Accused of Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We don\u2019t know the context of the Comey letter. It\u2019s being presented as Trump trying to interfere in an investigation, something Barack Obama actually did with the acquiescence of James Comey to clear Hillary Clinton! Obama actually did what Trump is being alleged to have done. You know this phrase, “I hope you can see your way to letting this go…”? Do you know who often uses a phrase like that? Psychiatrists, to people, patients who are obsessive-compulsives. “I hope you can let this go.” I hope you\u2019re gonna be able to… ‘Cause whatever…<\/p>\n

I mean, they\u2019re trying to say that Trump was trying to shut down the investigation. How did that work? I think every investigation under the sun is still going on, isn\u2019t it? With no evidence! Trump\u2019s really horrible. If his idea was to shut down investigation of Flynn or of the Russia collusion, they\u2019re both still ongoing, and there\u2019s nothing that has stopped them. And even the FBI\u2019s second in command says that no effort has been made to stop the investigation. That\u2019s the whole premise that the media is relying on with the Comey memo. Yeah.<\/p>\n

Well, Comey, apparently, is a big believer in self-protection, and every time he had a meeting with a principal, he would go back and memorialize the meeting in a form of a memo to himself. “Dear Self: The president today told me he hopes I can let go of the investigation into Michael Flynn,” and he did this to protect himself. But then how come nobody knew about this until the New York Times told us about it? How come the investigators in the Senate have not been told about this memo by Comey? How come Comey has not spoken up about it himself?<\/p>\n

If Trump was trying to subvert an investigation and shut it down, shouldn\u2019t the FBI director have said something that very next day? Shouldn\u2019t Comey have gone public (as only he could do) with a massive press conference and resign in great fervor over the idea that this pig had attempted to violate the Constitution and stop his investigation? Why did we not know about this until the New York Times lets it loose? There are countless questions here, my friends, that have answers that blow up pretty much every premise the media is attempting to get you to believe. Some of it\u2019s problematic.<\/p>\n

\"\"Do not misunderstand. I\u2019m not sitting here in abject denial. Some of this is problematic. On the Flynn business, Trump should have known. You know, let them do whatever he wants to do and pardon Flynn later. He doesn\u2019t have to stop the investigation. Pardon him if it happens. Who knows what. I think the truth is I don\u2019t think Trump wanted to let Flynn go. I think he loved Flynn. I think Flynn was loyal. I think he trusted Flynn, and I think the pressure got to him to let Flynn go, and something bothered him.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m wild guessing \u2019cause I do not have any inside context on any of this. (interruption) No, no. Obama actually… Well, here\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to accuse Trump of doing. This is the bottom line. What they want to do, ladies and gentlemen… Let me take a break. If I get started on this I\u2019m gonna go way, way long so let me take a break and we\u2019ll come back and I\u2019ll tell you what this whole thing ultimately is about. And it is something that Obama actually did with Comey, to get an investigation of Hillary Clinton stopped — and she was cleared.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, here\u2019s (among many things) what\u2019s going on. Here\u2019s what Trump is alleged to have done here vis-a-vis the Comey memo. Comey memo says that Trump asked him to let it go. Let the Flynn investigation go. I can hope you see your way to let this go. He didn\u2019t do anything. The guy… I love the guy, honest guy. Comey said, “Yeah, I can tell you honest guy, good guy.” And what Trump is alleged to have done is actually no different than what Barack Obama did in April last year when he made it known that he didn\u2019t want Hillary prosecuted.<\/p>\n

\"\"In fact, the Obama situation is actually worse. While Trump indicated he didn\u2019t want Flynn charged, he did not order the case dropped, because it\u2019s still going on. Trump indicated that he wanted Flynn not to be charged, but he did not order the case to be dropped. And the case continues. Grand juries have been impaneled now. In contrast, the FBI and the Department of Justice dropped the Hillary investigation just as Obama wanted them to, and they used exactly the rationales Obama used when he made his public statements.<\/p>\n

Well, Obama, was saying there was no intent to harm the U.S., the degree of classified emails that Mrs. Clinton was trafficking in is very exaggerated. Obama went public with all this! He went public with his own exoneration and thought that the investigation should be brought to a screeching halt. And it was! Comey got together and they stopped the investigation, and that allowed them and Hillary — for the rest of the campaign — to say she had been cleared. That\u2019s why they got so mad at Comey when he did the July 5th press conference, because back in April, Obama thought he\u2019d taken care of this.<\/p>\n

The July 5th press conference was essentially to announce that there wasn\u2019t going to be a prosecution of Hillary because there wasn\u2019t any intent. This is what Obama had set up with public statements the previous April, and I know you don\u2019t remember the media being jacked up about this. I know you don\u2019t remember any anonymous sources leaking information to the media that looked bad for Hillary and Obama. You just greeted this with, “It\u2019s the usual Democrat-media corruption.” And they\u2019re saying that this is what Trump was trying to sneak through here. He was trying to get Flynn to be cleared so that he could run around and say, “Flynn didn\u2019t do anything. See? I\u2019m clear!”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s what the allegation is gonna be, if it hasn\u2019t already appeared the Drive-By Media. The allegation is gonna be that what Trump wanted to do was to have the FBI clear Michael Flynn, and then use the FBI\u2019s clearing him to argue that a thorough investigation had proved nothing bad happened here. All right? Now, why did they think that\u2019s what Trump would do? They\u2019re gonna say that Trump\u2019s plan was to rig the investigation and then exploit the fact that there had been one. By exploiting it, I mean, “Hey, look, man! Look at this detailed investigation! It happened, and my buddy Flynn\u2019s clear.”<\/p>\n

\"\"The Democrats would know exactly how to do it because that\u2019s exactly what Obama did with Hillary. If you\u2019re scratching your heads about this, maybe you remember in April of 2016, when everybody was wondering, “Is Hillary gonna be indicted?” Remember there was a drip, drip, drip? Every day there seemed to be more news about Hillary\u2019s illegal server and classified documents flying around, and every day people speculated who was behind this, and everybody concluded that Obama was. And remember the debates, the questions?<\/p>\n

“Is Obama trying to take her out? Is Obama trying to destroy her? Is it Obama does not want her to be president, doesn\u2019t trust her with this?” Remember all of this stuff? And on the other side of it people were saying, “Maybe Obama\u2019s trying to inoculate her. Maybe Obama\u2019s trying to just dribble this stuff out so that it doesn\u2019t end up hurting her — a little bit here, a little bit there.” But the conventional wisdom was that if he was doing anything, he was trying to hurt her, because it just prolonged everything.<\/p>\n

I offer those simply as reference points. You might remember those things being discussed at the time. This is April of 2016. And that\u2019s why the Democrats would know how to accuse Trump. There\u2019s no evidence this is what Trump was trying to do. There\u2019s no evidence for anything here. We have allegations. We have a memo that may or may not exist. We have a memo that may exist without any context. We don\u2019t have anybody that can tell you what crime Donald Trump has committed yet to this day.<\/p>\n

But Obama actually did, with Hillary Clinton, exactly what they are accusing Trump of trying to do through Comey at that dinner (where Comey only got one scoop of ice cream) to protect Flynn. If you think back to April 2016, there was no way they were ever gonna have Hillary Clinton indicted. Obama ran the DOJ, and he was running Loretta Lynch, and Obama was running Comey, and there was no way Hillary was ever gonna be indicted. You know it and I know it. But they used the fact that the FBI had ostensibly done a thorough investigation in order to clear her.<\/p>\n

That was the purpose of the drip, drip, drip. The purpose — in retrospect — of the drip, drip, drip was to get all the evidence out there and then claim that it had been investigated, and then Comey magically appears on July 5th to list all this stuff that everybody knew. There was some of it that we didn\u2019t know, but he gets it all out there; then says, “No reasonable prosecutor would proceed,” and, bam! She\u2019s cleared! The difference between Obama and Trump is very simple. Obama\u2019s pressure on the FBI to wipe the Hillary investigation off the map appears to have worked.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what Trump may have said to Comey, the investigation of Flynn continues. The investigation of the collusion of the Trump campaign in Russia continues. So where is the obstruction? They\u2019re whispering impeachment, obstruction of justice, violation of this and that. Where is it? The investigations are ongoing elsewhere. The House Democrats announced a new one today! Pencil Neck went out there, Adam Schiff, and said, “You know, we\u2019re not gonna wait for a special counsel. We\u2019re gonna do a special commission here in the House!”<\/p>\n