{"id":234541,"date":"2017-05-22T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=234541"},"modified":"2017-05-23T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T20:40:10","slug":"the-seth-rich-story-wont-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/22\/the-seth-rich-story-wont-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seth Rich Story Won\u2019t Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Cleveland, Ohio. Lisa, it\u2019s great to have you. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m doing great. I can\u2019t believe after 25 years, I finally got through.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My goodness, all these people listening for 25 years!<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckling) It\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is fabulous. I love you so much. I really do. Thank you.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Well, I love you and I love everything you do to keep me sane, because listening to the mainstream media will literally set my hair on fire, so… But I\u2019m confused about something, and I know that you\u2019ll be able to enlighten me. I\u2019m confused about the whole Russian collusion stuff. First of all, even if it happened, what\u2019s the big deal? What\u2019s the crime? I thought that was called opposition research? You know, when NBC released the Billy Bush tape, wasn\u2019t that to affect the election? Wasn\u2019t that the whole point of releasing that and releasing what supposedly happened in the Russian hotel room?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right. The release was designed to take out the Trumpster.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. So I don\u2019t understand. Even if somebody on the Trump campaign said something, it was what\u2019s-his-face that used “password” as his password. I mean, all they did it was expose the truth. And it is not as if they —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait. Who you talking about here, “password” as…? Expose what truth?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Expose the truth about what was in the Democratic emails, about what they were doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. That… Now, wait.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. That\u2019s a whole new avenue on that has opened up now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. Well, but I just want you to explain it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It does not involve the Russians.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But let\u2019s stick with it as to the relation to Russia. Let\u2019s say it was the Russians, which it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We know that Podesta was victimized by a phishing attack.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is how that information got to WikiLeaks. The Democrats want you to believe that the Russians were the source for all of the Podesta emails, giving that stuff to the editors at WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has denied it, and there are other people who have alternative theories about how it happened. But there isn\u2019t… I know what you\u2019re getting at. “Okay, even if the Russians did that, isn\u2019t that like opposition research? I mean, if the Democrat stuff ended up at WikiLeaks, why is that probably a crime?” you\u2019re asking, which is an interesting question. Hang on here, Lisa. I\u2019ve got a break here at the bottom. We will continue this when we get back.<\/p>\n

\"\"BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, here back to Lisa in Cleveland. Lisa, I know what you\u2019re getting at here. Even if the Russians did this, even if the Russians were the ones that got hold of Podesta\u2019s emails and even if they did give them to WikiLeaks, what\u2019s the big deal, you say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, the big deal there would be that this is a foreign government attempting to show preferential treatment for one candidate over another except that they did try to hack the RNC and they failed to get through. But I think that may be one of the things that believers here are relying on that the Russians, that\u2019s how they tampered, but nobody has shown any evidence, Lisa, and they may never be able to, that the Podesta emails had any meaningful effect on Hillary losing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s really no way to quantify that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What is the actual crime that someone\u2019s being accused of? That\u2019s what I don\u2019t get. What\u2019s the crime that they\u2019re accusing Trump of?<\/p>\n

RUSH: None. There isn\u2019t a crime.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t understand it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, because it\u2019s a public smear.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The broad-based allegation is collusion. And since Russia is an enemy, they want to be able to say it\u2019s treasonous and thus impeachable.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, I\u2019m really worried, though, about some of these other broadcasters. I sometimes for fun watch CNN in the morning and that Chris Cuomo, I think he\u2019s gonna need medical assistance at some point. He is so rabid and so hysterical. I realize he\u2019s trying to get his brother elected president at some point, but it\u2019s really — I almost feel sorry for him, it\u2019s gotten so bad.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSH: Yeah, he\u2019s the Fredo, you know, of the Cuomo family<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hm-hm. Well, it\u2019s pretty funny.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s the guy that takes the grandkids out fishing and never returns.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Chris Cuomo actually said two things that are just literally stupid last week. He said to mention there is no evidence is sabotage of the investigation. Anybody going on CNN claiming, “Hey, wait a minute, you people have no evidence of any collusion.” He says that is sabotaging the investigation. The second thing he said was that if you\u2019re gonna say there\u2019s no proof of any allegation, you have to prove it. He said you need to show proof that there\u2019s no proof. Now, Lisa, that is not possible. You can\u2019t prove two negatives, much less one.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And it is not the principle on which the American judicial system is built. The accused do not have to prove anything. The accusers have to prove it. So if the media thinks there\u2019s been collusion it\u2019s up to them to prove it. There isn\u2019t any proof. There is not any crime. That\u2019s why they\u2019re walking back impeachment. But the new avenue here, folks, are you aware of the name Seth Rich? Seth Rich worked the DNC. Seth Rich, he was murdered, DNC worker. The police said it was a botched robbery. He still had his wallet, car keys, lottery tickets, whatever else.<\/p>\n

Others are claiming that he was murdered because he was the leak from the DNC to WikiLeaks. And this story is now starting to get legs, that Seth Rich was murdered, it was a contract hire killing because he was leaking to WikiLeaks, he was the one. May have been a Bernie supporter. The only colluding and rigging here, folks, is the Democrat primary election. The DNC rigged it against — do you know that there\u2019s a class-action lawsuit against the DNC over this now? There is a massive lawsuit against the DNC by Bernie supporters for him getting shafted.<\/p>\n

Seth Rich claims to have been — or there are people claiming. Kim Dotcom, the noted hacker, has now come forward and said he was working with Seth Rich to get the documents to WikiLeaks. That link is at the Drudge Report today<\/a>. Kim Dotcom is a renowned, world famous computer hacker loved and adored by high-tech people for a host of reasons. In fact, I didn\u2019t know this \u2019cause I do not… I don\u2019t tweet; I don\u2019t go on Twitter. Well, we have a Twitter account. We use it to promote RushLimbaugh.com <\/a>and our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"But in terms of, you know, tweeting? The place is a refuge for human debris, if you ask me, Twitter is. So much of it. You know, folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you something. I would bet you — wild guess here — that over half of the traffic on Twitter is not real people. It\u2019s botnets. It\u2019s fake accounts. I know they exist. We\u2019ve tracked them down. We\u2019ve identified them as they relate to us, attacks on us. I think Twitter… I think a lot of social media is fake, is not real people. It\u2019s made to look like real people. And it\u2019s dominated by the left.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s just another area of the American political system where the media makes it look like everybody\u2019s a Democrat — everybody\u2019s a Democrat, everybody\u2019s a liberal — when it\u2019s not factually correct. Anyway, back in March, I was talking about Kim Dotcom here on the big program. There were allusions to the fact even last fall that, you know, there were 30,000 Hillary emails from the 60,000 on her server that still are not accounted for. She gave 30,000 to the investigators claiming that those are the ones that are relevant.<\/p>\n

\"\"The other 30,000, she deleted \u2019em \u2019cause they had nothing to do with anything. They had to do with Hillary\u2019s daughter\u2019s wedding and wedding reception and who got two scoops of ice cream and who didn\u2019t, and there were things about yoga lessons, and who Clintons thought were nut jobs. She didn\u2019t turn that stuff over but those emails are somewhere. Kim Dotcom claimed to know either where they were and could get them or know somebody who did, and I\u2019m talking about this on the air. I didn\u2019t know this, but back in March, Kim Dotcom tweeted me.<\/p>\n

He said, “Dear Rush Limbaugh: One day I will tell you on your show what really happened. Will be a very entertaining hour.” I didn\u2019t know it until today when one of my webmasters (we powerful, influential members of the media have people like webmasters and stuff) told them about this. So, Mr. Dotcom, I just found out about it. I\u2019m sorry. I didn\u2019t mean to ignore your tweet. I didn\u2019t know that it had happened. But this is a whole new avenue — and, folks, right now it\u2019s conspiracy theory status, that Seth Rich was murdered because he… But it\u2019s… Well, it\u2019s just it\u2019s… It won\u2019t go away. It just won\u2019t go away, that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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