RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m gonna shelve today — not shelve — I\u2019m gonna move what everybody thinks is the primary topic today, the ongoing development of news and information about the shooter at the baseball practice yesterday, Mr. Hodgkinson. There\u2019s a growing stack of information about this guy. And what is becoming clear is something that I sensed on the program yesterday.<\/p>\n
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This guy was a mainstream leftist. If you go to his Facebook page like I said yesterday, you go to his Facebook page, it reads exactly like the way a CNN panel discussion on Trump sounds. Everywhere you go and read what this guy has written, letters to the editor, Facebook posts, he sounds just like anybody you would hear on the media. He sounds like Rachel Maddow. He sounds like Jake Tapper. He sounds like F. Chuck Todd. Just as normal a leftist as you can be.<\/p>\n
Now, my point of that is not to exonerate him; is to issue a warning. These people have been driven mad. I don\u2019t have any doubt about that. But they\u2019re able to hide. They\u2019re able to hide in plain sight for the most part because they articulate what happens to be mainstream thought as expressed by the Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n
Now, this guy, as it\u2019s been learned, or discovered, did have some erratic behavior too. He was very off-putting to barmaids and barkeepers at sports bars, and in general he could be a reprobate. But in terms of the things he talked about, the things he said, there\u2019s not a leftist in the world that thought the guy was dangerous. Not a leftist in the world that thought he was odd. And yet he\u2019s the epitome of it.<\/p>\n
But I want to shift the discussion of that to what the Drive-By Media is using to replace that story. And that happens to be a gigantic leak to the Washington Post that Donald Trump, the president of the United States, is magically and all of a sudden now under criminal investigation, after having been told by the FBI director James Comey that he was not under investigation, the counterintelligence investigation of collusion with Russia.<\/p>\n
There was nothing there. There never has been anything there. So they\u2019re pivoting now, and here we go, some leaks to the Washington Post <\/a>claiming that Trump was now trying to obstruct Comey from doing his job. And this does not hold up. It simply doesn\u2019t hold up. And this story leaked yesterday and the purpose of this story leaking is obviously twofold. But the primary purpose for leaking the story yesterday — they could have done it next week, at the Post, they could have waited until tomorrow and bury it on a Friday, except they don\u2019t want to bury it.<\/p>\n What they wanted to do was get the shooting of Steve Scalise and the others off the front page. That\u2019s the reason for the leak, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m gonna focus on this. I\u2019m gonna demonstrate, with the help of a friend of mine, just how bogus this next charge is and how senseless it is and how legally it doesn\u2019t even hold water.<\/p>\n How can Trump be exonerated? What was Trump exonerated for? What was Trump never under invest — He told Comey what? He said, “Can you let the Flynn thing go?” one time. He did not keep it up. He did not pressure Comey. He did not hound Comey. He mentioned it one time, way, way back, long before Comey went public and announced that Trump was never under investigation. Trump had asked Comey to let the Flynn thing go months before Comey said, for the last time, that Trump wasn\u2019t under investigation.<\/p>\n So if Comey says — pick a date, March 30th — that Trump is not under investigation after Trump has supposedly obstructed or tried to obstruct the Comey investigation, then why wasn\u2019t something done on obstruction then? How could Comey clear Trump if Comey thought he was being obstructed by Trump? It is a very sensible and logical question. And the answer to that question is also very easy. They went back to it after their whole collusion investigation blew up with nothing there.<\/p>\n And, believe me, they were gonna try to make it happen anyway, with evidence, without evidence, \u2019cause there isn\u2019t any evidence of collusion. So they planted the Russian dossier, any number of things to try to create the illusion that there was evidence, but they couldn\u2019t sell it. So they have shifted. And so now the Washington Post — and let me tell you, as of ten o\u2019clock last night, ten o\u2019clock last night the top five most-read articles at the Washington Post. Now, this is according to the Washington Post as well.<\/p>\n Number one. “Special Counsel Investigating Trump for Possible Obstruction of Justice, Officials Say.”<\/p>\n Number two. “An Inferno Seemingly From Another Time or Place Kills 12 in London.” Do you believe that was the second most-read story as of ten o\u2019clock last night in the Washington Post?<\/p>\n Number three. “ISIS Drones Are Attacking U.S. Troops and Disrupting Airstrikes in Raqqa, Officials Say.”<\/p>\n Number four. “University of Virginia Student Otto Warmbier, Said to Be in a Coma, Released From North Korea.” By the way, I haven\u2019t heard his name pronounced. Has anybody heard how they\u2019re pronouncing his name? Not a single person on my staff has heard this name? Well, we\u2019ll get to it. W-a-r-m-b-i-e-r, could be Warmbier, Warmbier, could be Warmbier. I\u2019ve never heard it pronounced. I have an excuse. I never have the volume up. I just look at closed-caption.<\/p>\n Number five. “The NSA Has Linked the WannaCry Computer Worm to North Korea.”<\/p>\n The top five stories, as of ten o\u2019clock last night in the Washington Post. Not a single story about the shooting of Steve Scalise and the other members of the congressional team practicing baseball in Alexandria, Virginia. Do you believe that? Well, I didn\u2019t look at the Washington Post last night so I don\u2019t know how many stories there were in the Washington Post about the shooting.<\/p>\n What I do know is that the Washington Post and the New York Times and CNN and everybody else want to move on. They want to sweep this shooting story under the rug as quickly as they can until they can figure out a way to blame it on Scalise, which they\u2019re trying to do.<\/p>\n People have forgotten. The Obama administration, as recently as 2015, was attacking Scalise as a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan because of a personal appearance he made 20 years ago with David Duke. The Obama administration, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, was continuing to impugn Scalise as a sympathizer for the KKK.<\/p>\n The proven lie is that Jared Loughner, the shooter of Gabby Giffords, read Sarah Palin\u2019s website and saw a graphic of crosshairs on there as she was mentioning congressional districts Republicans need to target for political victory, and he got the idea to shoot Gabby Giffords. We learned at the time that Loughner was insane. He was not politically oriented. To the extent that he paid any attention it was to left-wing politics. But he was simply insane.<\/p>\n The New York Times, in my estimation, this is actionable, what they have done today. To dredge up a proven lie, republish it as the reason Scalise was shot, the reason. Sarah Palin got all of this going by causing the shooting of Gabby Giffords and this led to people like Hodgkinson doing what he did. None of this is in the top five most-clicked-on stories in the Washington Post, as of ten o\u2019clock last night.<\/p>\n How many of you would just believe that the Washington Post, their website yesterday, all day yesterday, if they had stories on the shooting, that that story would not be widely read by Washington Post readers?<\/p>\n Well, that\u2019s what they want us to believe. They want us to believe they had more people interested in the London tower inferno, which is a days old story. More people interested in ISIS drones attacking U.S. troops and disrupting air strikes in Raqqa, and that the NSA has linked the WannaCry ransomware computer worm to North Korea. All of those were far more interesting to Washington Post readers.<\/p>\n See, I don\u2019t buy it. I think it\u2019s the Washington Post number one most read story, the special counsel investigating Trump for possible obstruction of justice. I think the Post wants to broom this whole shooting story, and the reason for publishing their special counsel investigating Trump for obstruction is the way they\u2019re doing it.<\/p>\n RUSH ARCHIVE: The idea that the independent counsel\u2019s fair and open-minded and the scales of justice will be equally balanced, what a crock! These are prosecutors! What is the objective of a prosecutor? To send somebody to jail. That\u2019s the objective. They\u2019re not in there, they\u2019re not in these jobs to let people go! They\u2019re not in these jobs to let people off! An independent counsel or any prosecutor is there to get convictions! And if they don\u2019t think they can get convictions then they try to get plea deals on guilty pleas.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right. We next go to CNN and Jeffrey Toobin last night on Anderson Cooper\u2019s show talking about Mueller and this leak, and they\u2019re so excited they can\u2019t contain themselves.<\/p>\n TOOBIN: It\u2019s worth remembering, what a personal nightmare is to be under criminal investigation, what it\u2019s like to wake up every morning knowing that there\u2019s a team of skilled lawyers, FBI agents who are looking at the possibility of trying to put you in prison. That is what it means to be under criminal investigation, and now the president of the United States, who is a sensitive soul, is gonna have to deal with that.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah, so they\u2019re so excited, put Trump in prison. Exactly what I told you yesterday. They\u2019re salivating over Trump going to prison. David “Rodham” Gergen has chimed in. Get this. David “Rodham” Gergen (paraphrasing), “You know what? This is so much bigger than the collusion case. Oh, yeah. This is gigantic. Collusion case, not much. This is big.” Anderson Cooper: “David, we\u2019re judicious with the Watergate comparisons. You worked for Nixon. It wasn\u2019t the burglary that brought him down. It was the cover-up, right?”<\/p>\n GERGEN: There\u2019s now a three pronged investigation of Donald Trump and the people around him. This has taken a major turn. It\u2019s actually much more dangerous to Donald Trump than what they started with and that is the Russian issue. What we\u2019ve been talking about forever has just come true, and I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous I think this is for the president.<\/p>\n RUSH: Exactly right. Investigation of obstruction of justice and the IC, the special counsel\u2019s not there to say he didn\u2019t do it. The fact is he didn\u2019t do it. This is as bogus as the collusion charge. The timeline alone makes that point. Details of that coming up. But you see now, “Oh, yeah, the collusion thing, ah, that pales in comparison.” Really? For the last seven months that\u2019s the only thing that mattered to any of you people. And now that pales?<\/p>\n ADAM ENTOUS: I do want to caution here that this is obviously something that may never result in accusations being brought in terms of charges by —<\/p>\n RUSH: What?<\/p>\n ADAM ENTOUS: — the special counsel.<\/p>\n RUSH: What?<\/p>\n ADAM ENTOUS: He may take a look at Comey\u2019s testimony. He may interview Comey. He may interview these other people and decide that there is no obstruction or certainly no case that he can bring on obstruction. So it\u2019s really — this is a preliminary moment. We\u2019re seeing effectively a file being opened here within the FBI —<\/p>\n RUSH: Wait a second. Stop the tape. Stop, stop, I gotta take a break. Did you hear this? The Washington Post reporter, “Wait, I gotta caution you, there may not be anything here.” Really? That\u2019s not what your story says. By the way, if anybody ought to recuse himself from something, Mueller damn well. Comey\u2019s his best buddy. Comey\u2019s gonna end up being a central figure in this. If anybody should be recusing, it\u2019s Mueller.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: We\u2019re gonna get into some detail here about why this obstruction investigation is cockeyed and why it looks to me to be not something that is the result of a natural progression of events. This, to me, looks like a construct, just like the collusion story was a construct. Meaning, there weren\u2019t any events that took place that warranted an investigation. They had to construct them. And they had to take bogus documents such as that dossier, the golden showers dossier, and pretend that it was real.<\/p>\n And it looks like much the same thing is happening here in this obstruction investigation coming so on the heels of the flat-out admission that there\u2019s nothing to the collusion story, but proving that investigators can\u2019t let something go. Trump essentially has been exonerated on the collusion story, but they can\u2019t let it go. There\u2019s an investigation, don\u2019t you know.<\/p>\n The investigation\u2019s gotta turn up something, so they\u2019ve moved from collusion to obstruction. And I want to reemphasize, you know, Sessions has recused himself, but if there\u2019s anybody that really needs to it\u2019s the special counsel himself, Robert Mueller, just based on public statements, how close he and Comey are, how BFF they are.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: By the way, a little side note. President Trump\u2019s approval numbers at 47%. Do you realize that\u2019s no change? Some pollsters in the Drive-Bys tell you he\u2019s in the thirties, but 47%. No change. You would think that in the normal ebb and flow and the tradition of American politics approval ratings and news, you would think that this never ending assault on Donald Trump would take that number down, and it\u2019s holding steady at 47%, which means many things. Among the things it means is that Trump\u2019s base is holding.<\/p>\n And make no mistake, these assaults on Trump, they have multifaceted objectives. One of them is to finally separate Trump\u2019s supporters from Trump. It\u2019s to irritate them to the point of having them drive away. That\u2019s not working yet.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a lie. And Acosta is saying that a White House official told him. A White House, not a hospital official, not a hospital worker. A White House official told him that Trump is lying. Trump didn\u2019t meet with Scalise. He didn\u2019t meet with Scalise\u2019 family. He didn\u2019t go into the room where Scalise is being treated, and it turns out to have been proven fake. Acosta deleted the tweet after it received nearly 2,000 retweets. He has not apologized.<\/p>\n Now, what about this White House official on hospital visit? “President Trump did not meet with Scalise.” Did somebody purposefully leak this to see who would run with it and who didn\u2019t? Or did somebody leak this in the White House staff, did a White House official leak this to try to damage Trump? In other words, did somebody in Trump\u2019s administration tell this reporter for fake news CNN that Trump\u2019s lying in his tweet. He didn\u2019t go there. He didn\u2019t see anybody. He didn\u2019t talk to anybody. He\u2019s making it up.<\/p>\n Was this internal sabotage at the White House, or was it an attempt to identify and expose or embarrass a Drive-By Media reporter? We don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s typical. Acosta didn\u2019t even run it down. He just accepted whatever was said by this leaker, because of course Trump lies. It\u2019s in their mind, Trump lies, makes everything up. Of course Trump didn\u2019t go. He\u2019s bragging about it. He\u2019s lying about it, but he didn\u2019t go. Every one of these instances Trump turns out to be the one telling the truth, such as when he said that Comey told him three times that he wasn\u2019t under investigation. You remember the excrement storm after that.<\/p>\n Everybody in legal think tanks and the media, “Comey would never do that. Trump\u2019s lying. In his dreams. Trump is making it up. Comey is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant prosecutor and brilliant, brilliant lawyer, and brilliant, brilliant FBI director. He would never tell anybody they are not under –” And yet Trump was telling the truth. 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The Washington Post could publish a fake list, supposedly determined by computer hits, Washington Post readers clicking on stories. They\u2019ve got a program that tabulates which stories are clicked on the most. They are considered to be, thus, read. So they have their top five most read articles. It\u2019s actually top five most clicked on, but who\u2019s splitting hairs? I want to read to you the top five as of ten o\u2019clock last night.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Hodgkins-protest-2012.jpg\")
This wacko, who was a mainstream liberal Democrat, Hodgkinson, believed it, and he was out there tweeting about it and Facebook posting about it. And posting cartoons of Scalise addressing can hooded Klansmen. And it was the Obama administration pushing it. The New York Times today has a story blaming Sarah Palin for Hodgkinson shooting Scalise. Editorial story, I don\u2019t know, but what it is is an attempt to hearken back — well, it\u2019s a lie. The New York Times has openly lied. They have dredged up a proven lie and published it again.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MuellerDrain-the-Swamp-Mueller.jpg\")
<\/a>I want to now go to the audio sound bites. We\u2019re gonna start with me on this program yesterday<\/a> talking about the purpose and the objective of special counsel Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MuellerRobert-.jpg\")
“Yeah, yeah, \u2019cause obstruction, we can get the guy on that, absolutely. We can make it up and we can make it stick, yeah, yeah, we got him, Trump\u2019s toast. And then we\u2019re gonna get his tax returns and we\u2019re gonna expose of all the fraudulent business things. And we\u2019re gonna destroy Trump financially and we\u2019re gonna destroy Trump\u2019s businesses. We\u2019re gonna destroy Trump\u2019s family,” which is the objective in all of this. CNN was so excited, they brought the Washington Post writer on, who published the story filled with leaks about the creation of the investigation of obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TwitterAcosta.png\")
<\/a>Also, Donald Trump tweeted a couple things. He went to see Steve Scalise in the hospital last night, and he came out and tweeted that he had been there and that he had talked to people and that it was very, very touch and go. Shortly thereafter, there was a tweet from Jim Acosta of fake news at CNN<\/a>. And the\u00a0Jim Acosta fake news CNN tweet said: “White House official on hospital visit: President Trump did not meet with Scalise and did not go into the room where Scalise is being treated.”<\/p>\n