{"id":236324,"date":"2017-06-09T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=236324"},"modified":"2017-06-12T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T20:37:39","slug":"what-bothered-me-most-about-the-comey-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/06\/09\/what-bothered-me-most-about-the-comey-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bothered Me Most About the Comey Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, there was something gnawing at me yesterday while watching all of this that has to do with the fact that Trump was not under investigation, that Comey had told him three times, starting way back in January. And that the first meeting between Comey and Trump was requested by Comey. Did you know that? Comey tried to make everybody believe yesterday that Trump wanted to speak with him alone, and he thought, “I don\u2019t know!” “Don\u2019t leave me alone in the room with him,” he told Sessions. “It\u2019s just not normal.” It was Comey who asked for the room to be cleared at Trump Tower on January 6th.<\/p>\n

\"\"It was Comey who requested a solitary meeting with Trump. Now, Trump had invited him up there. Comey was with a bunch of other people in the intel community. It was when that endless parade of people was going in and out of Trump Tower. But it was Comey who requested a lone meeting, a private meeting and ushered everybody out of the room. Now, the point of that is, imagine you are Trump, and here comes the FBI director, and you know what he\u2019s doing — he\u2019s investigating this, investigating that — and he requests the room. He asks everybody be cleared out of the room so he can have a one-on-one with you.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re Trump, could you be blamed for thinking that\u2019s how the FBI director wants to meet with you? So when you ask on February 14th for another meeting with the FBI director, you ask him to come up to the White House for dinner \u2019cause this is how it happened last time. It\u2019s all there in the testimony yesterday. The first time (I think it was January 6) was where Trump was told he was not under investigation, and that gnawed at me all day yesterday. That is a long time. And now if… This goes beyond just the fact that, of all the things leaked, that wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\"\"The great point made by Marco Rubio<\/a> was that everything in the kitchen sink has been leaking except that. That didn\u2019t leak. And that\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s really mattered in all of this. The only factual, true thing about all these leaks is the one that didn\u2019t leak, that Comey told Trump he was not under investigation. As I say, it was gnawing at me all day yesterday. So I got back home yesterday, I took my chill period, and then delved back into show prep — and I ran across a literally great piece by Dan McLaughlin at National Review<\/a>, and it perfectly explains why I was unsettled, why something was bothering me about all this yesterday.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: What bothered me yesterday that Dan McLaughlin at National Review brought into focus is that all of these people… Comey had told everybody in closed session up on Capitol Hill — he had told them — that Trump was not under investigation. Do you realize the entire Senate and House intelligence communities have known since January — since Comey\u2019s first appearance up there, whenever it was — that Trump was not under investigation? Every damn Democrat for the last four months has known this. So have a lot of Republicans.<\/p>\n