National Review Online written by Andrew McCarthy<\/a> of the McCarthy brothers of New Jersey. And this is powerful in its simple logic.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ComeyFBI1-300x290.jpg\")
It is a column that asks simple, logical questions. The title of the piece as it is now — I don\u2019t know if this will be the title when it\u2019s published later today: “Can You Obstruct a Fraud? — On March 30, 2017, by his own account, then-FBI director James Comey told President Donald Trump that Trump himself was not under investigation — the third time he had given him that assurance.” Once in January, once in February, and once on March 30th. Three different times. The most recent time that Comey assured Trump he wasn\u2019t under investigation, March 30th. “In fact, Comey told Trump that he had just assured members of Congress that Trump was not a suspect under investigation.”<\/p>\n
So all the way through April and all the way through May, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Pencil Neck Schiff, they all knew that Trump was not a target, he was not a suspect. Comey told them all. And yet they continue to conduct hearings on Trump\u2019s possible collusion with Russia, they continued to speak to the media about it. Trump was going nuts. He wanted Comey to say publicly what he had told him privately, and Comey wouldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
There is a parallel, if I may make a brief departure. Do you remember a controversial item back in the beginning days of the regime, the administration? Reince Priebus claimed that he was in his office and the number two at the FBI, Andrew McCabe, dropped by, and Priebus said that McCabe told him (paraphrasing), “Look, Reince, we know that all this stuff in the paper about Trump and collusion, we know it\u2019s BS. We know these are links and nothing there.” And Priebus said, “What good does that do us?”<\/p>\n
And the news leaked out that Priebus was leaning on McCabe to go public and assure everybody they weren\u2019t under investigation. And I talked to Priebus, and he said it\u2019s the exact opposite. I was minding my own business in my office and McCabe walks in and tells me this and then I said, “What can we do with this?” And it was clear, we couldn\u2019t say it, we couldn\u2019t use it. It been told to us privately. But the story was that Priebus had gone to the FBI and demanded that they go public with the fact that all this stuff in the paper, these leaks from the deep state, none of \u2019em were true, and the FBI knew it.<\/p>\n
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Same thing here. Comey tells Trump three different times, most recently March 30th, “You\u2019re not a suspect.” He then tells Congress and everybody. The media therefore knew because if Congress knew and the FBI knew and the leakers knew, then the media knew. And yet everybody pretended that Trump was still a suspect. And Trump is understandably whisky tango foxtrot. “Why doesn\u2019t somebody go public with this? And can we move on here? This is becoming a problem for me moving my agenda forward.” And nobody would go public with it. Understandably so. The purpose was not to enable Trump to do anything positive or good.<\/p>\n
So think about that. Comey told Trump March 30th that he had just told Congress Trump was not a suspect. So Trump sits in the White House knowing that everybody involved knows he\u2019s not a suspect. Yet he turns on TV and watches \u2019em keep talking about him as a suspect and how we need to keep going, find even more evidence. Well, this was six weeks after — Folks, this is so crucial here to understanding Mueller\u2019s leak and case.<\/p>\n
March 30th, when Comey tells Trump he is not a suspect, that is six weeks, that is a month-and-a-half after Comey\u2019s Oval Office meeting with Trump “during which Comey alleges that Trump told him, ‘I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.\u2019 Flynn, of course, is Michael Flynn, the close Trump campaign adviser and original Trump national-security adviser, whom Trump, with pained reluctance, had fired just the day before.”<\/p>\n
But the importance is the timeline here. Six weeks after the Oval Office meeting where Comey says, he alleges that Trump asked him to let this Flynn thing go. Six weeks after that Comey assures Trump he\u2019s not a suspect. And yet that alleged conversation forms the basis of this obstruction. Trump\u2019s told he\u2019s not a suspect. Six weeks after — this includes not just collusion, but Trump has told Comey, allegedly, asked Comey, “Let this Flynn thing go.” Six weeks after that Comey tells him, “You\u2019re not a suspect.” Now we\u2019ve got the special counsel looking into that as obstruction.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, the famous McCarthy brothers are actually from the Bronx. One of them has defected to New Jersey, but it\u2019s the famous McCarthy — I\u2019m sure you in the Bronx know exactly who it is to whom I refer. Now, six weeks after Comey tells Trump in the Oval Office that he\u2019s not a suspect is when Trump allegedly said to Comey, “I hope you can let Flynn go.” Six weeks after that happens, Comey says, “You\u2019re not a suspect” for the third time.<\/p>\n
Now, as Andy writes here, “Most of the time, when public officials obstruct an investigation, there is a certain obsessiveness about it.” It\u2019s a big deal. If they\u2019re actually doing it, they\u2019re not doing it halfheartedly, they\u2019re not making calls once or twice a week. They\u2019re on the case every day. It\u2019s that important. They\u2019re obsessive about it.<\/p>\n
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“Because, in the usual situation, the official has been paid off, or the official is worried that the subject of the investigation will inculpate the official if the investigation is allowed to continue.” Usually, obstruction, you\u2019re asking somebody to shut it down, and until it\u2019s shut down you remain obsessive about getting it shut down.<\/p>\n
Trump was not obsessive. The thing to notice here is that Trump never did it again. After the Oval Office meeting six weeks prior to March 30th, when Comey alleges that Trump asked him to let the Flynn thing go, that was the only time Trump brought it up. That was on Valentine\u2019s Day, February 14th. After Comey\u2019s description of that encounter, the word “Flynn” never appears again in any Comey written testimony. The only time Comey mentions Flynn is referring to that meeting on February 14th when Trump supposedly said to Comey, “Let it go.”<\/p>\n
Now, who was Flynn, in Trump\u2019s eyes? He is a guy that was a devoted and loyal supporter. He was a combat veteran who had served the country with distinction for over 30 years, who had not done anything wrong by speaking to the Russian ambassador as part of the Trump transition. As far as Trump\u2019s concern, no crime\u2019s been committed here. This is what people in Flynn\u2019s position would do during a transition.<\/p>\n
Despite all that, Flynn had been chosen as the guy to take the heat. Flynn was gonna be the fall guy. The FBI, Comey had to get somebody. “Flynn had just been cashiered in humiliating fashion.” And Trump is the one who did it. Trump had fired him, and he was upset about it. And that\u2019s why common sense would tell you he was lobbying Comey on Flynn\u2019s behalf. He felt bad about what he had been forced to do to Flynn. Flynn was one of the first original eager beaver supporters. He spoke at the convention. He was a diehard Trump supporter. Trump ends up firing the guy. Trump\u2019s not excited about it. So that\u2019s why obviously he is asking Comey, “Come on. Look at all the guy\u2019s done. This is nothing here. You can find a way to let it go.”<\/p>\n
“It was an exercise in weighing the merits of further investigation and prosecution that FBI agents and federal prosecutors do hundreds of times a day, throughout the country. That matters because, as their superior and as the constitutional official whose power these subordinates exercise, Trump has as much authority to do this weighing as did Comey.”<\/p>\n
Trump could do this. He runs the executive branch. Comey works for Trump, not the other way around. It was perfectly fine and nobody thought a thing about it at the time until the collusion thing appears to fall apart. And now they\u2019re trying to go back and make this the centerpiece of a newly created obstruction investigation. And it stinks. Comey didn\u2019t report this, didn\u2019t say he was deeply concerned about it at the time. Only when it became convenient did he do so.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, this next thing is important. Comey has revised his opinion on this event. He now says, after he was fired by Trump, he thinks that Trump was ordering him to drop the Flynn investigation. When we get back here, I\u2019m gonna try to demonstrate using the English language that that did not happen.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I want to conclude here the analysis of this so-called fraud or obstruction against Donald Trump, \u2019cause, folks, it is as flimsy as everything else in this has been. If you\u2019re just joining us, to review, Washington Post big story yesterday that swept the shooting story off the front pages of its newspaper, that the independent counsel, special counsel Robert Mueller — and you can\u2019t criticize him because he is the epitome of integrity and fairness, and he\u2019s got a reputation that one must not assail.<\/p>\n
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His group made up largely of Democrat donors and Obama and Hillary supporters — those are the lawyers he\u2019s hired — leaked to the Washington Post that they now have the president under criminal investigation. James Comey told Trump three times he was not under investigation, that he was not a suspect in the collusion business. The key thing is six weeks before March 30th, Valentine\u2019s Day, James Comey alleges that Donald Trump said, “I hope you can see your way to letting this Flynn thing go.” Trump denies he said it, by the way. But Comey says he did. Comey says, “I hope you can see your way.”<\/p>\n
Six weeks after that, Comey said for the third time, Trump\u2019s not a suspect. So at the time Trump made the statement that Comey alleges he made, Comey didn\u2019t think it was obstruction. He didn\u2019t run out of the Oval Office, start running to the Justice Department. He didn\u2019t call his best buddy, Bob Mueller. He didn\u2019t run around, “Trump just tried to obstruct my investigation. Did you know that? He just told me to let the investigation go. He can\u2019t do that. I\u2019m the FBI director. He\u2019s only president.”<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t tell that to anybody. He didn\u2019t complain. He didn\u2019t whine. He just furthermore told Congress six weeks later that Trump was not a suspect, six weeks after this alleged obstruction took place. It was later that the FBI director revised his take on this episode. After Trump fired Comey, Comey said, “You know what? As I think about that dinner on Valentine\u2019s night, I think Trump was ordering me to drop the Flynn investigation.”<\/p>\n
This is very important. We\u2019re getting here to the nub of this. We\u2019ve already gotten to one nub. We\u2019re getting to another one here. At the time when Trump\u2019s allegedly saying to Comey, “Let it go, let the Flynn thing go,” Comey thought nothing of it. He thought so little of it that six weeks later he told Trump again, and Congress, that Trump\u2019s not a suspect. So, after that, Trump fires Comey. Comey says, “You know what? I just got fired. I\u2019m rethinking what Trump said to me on Valentine\u2019s night.”<\/p>\n
And he did. He revised his take on this and is now telling everybody that he\u2019s convinced now that Trump was actually ordering him to drop the Flynn investigation. And that\u2019s why we have an obstruction investigation now. But Trump did not issue such an order. If Trump had ordered it dropped, it would be dropped, folks. Trump runs the executive branch. If he wants this thing dropped, it would be dropped. And if he wanted it dropped he would mentioned it more than once.<\/p>\n
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If he was ordering Comey to let it go, he would have followed through until Comey did it. And he would have fired Comey a lot sooner than he did, if he had ordered Comey to drop it and Comey had not done so. Now, by Comey\u2019s own account, “the words Trump used left the decision about pursuing Flynn to Comey\u2019s discretion,” which I want to get to here in a minute. Even though Trump acknowledges that it was Comey\u2019s decision to make, Trump had the legitimate constitutional authority to order Comey to close that case.<\/p>\n
“At the time these events actually happened, Comey took no action consistent with someone who understood himself to be under a directive by the president of the United States. He and the FBI continued the investigation.” Because at the time Comey didn\u2019t think he was being ordered. Only after he got fired did he revise his take on it.<\/p>\n
Now, let\u2019s look at the words. I need to point out here that Trump has denied that he said this at all. But we\u2019re gonna look at this through the hypothetical that he did say it, \u2019cause I can still make the case that Trump using the words Comey alleges he heard. The actual words that Comey claimed Trump said were: “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” That\u2019s what Comey says Trump said, and at the time he didn\u2019t think anything of it. Only after he got fired, “You know what? I think I was being ordered. I think my investigation was being tampered with. I think my investigation was being obstructed,” after he gets fired.<\/p>\n
Again a reminder, Trump denies that he said this. But let\u2019s parse what Trump said. “I hope you can see your way clear.” By the way, a senator made this point. Hope is not ordering somebody. “Yeah, yeah, I hope you\u2019ll let the investigation go.” That\u2019s not an order. “I hope you can see your way clear,” not only is it not an order, it acknowledges something. With Trump allegedly saying “I hope you can see your way clear” acknowledges the authority for the decision is Comey\u2019s.<\/p>\n
You have in a room the president and the FBI director talking about the Flynn investigation. The president of the United States, who can order it shut down if he wants to, instead defers to Comey\u2019s judgment and authority and says, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” “I hope you can.” “I hope you can.”<\/p>\n
If he said this, he denies it, but if he said it he is putting himself in a deferential position. He is deferring to the judgment of his FBI director here. He\u2019s expressing an opinion, but he\u2019s deferring the decision to Comey. He clearly isn\u2019t ordering Comey to do anything. In other words, what Trump was saying is, “It\u2019s your call. I\u2019m telling you what I hope you do, but it\u2019s your call.” If there had been an order, Trump would have followed it up, because Comey didn\u2019t let it go, and if Trump had meant for it to be let go, Trump would be steaming.<\/p>\n
There was also a tweet by the eldest Trump son — that would be Donald Jr. — who pointed out, “Believe me, everyone who knows my father knows that when he\u2019s giving you an order, there is no doubt about it.” And as the eldest son, I think Trump Jr. would know whether he\u2019s being ordered to do something or whether his dad\u2019s hoping he does something. But Trump Jr. says, “There\u2019s no ambiguity when my dad orders you to do something.”<\/p>\n
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This flimsy rigmarole is now what has formed the basis of the next end-of-the-world investigation: “Donald Trump, the president of the United States, obstructed justice.” And they\u2019re gonna now start saying, “This is Nixonian. This is the cover-up. This is what got Nixon. Trump tried to cover it up. He wanted to make sure that nobody found out what Flynn was doing, and he ordered –” This is so bogus. This is so bogus.<\/p>\n
You know, Trump could still do some things. He could tell the special counsel, Robert Mueller, to limit his investigation to actually felonies. “Don\u2019t mess around here with these process crimes. I don\u2019t care about \u2019em. If somebody committed a felony, I want to know about it, but ignore this process stuff, we want to get to the bottom of it.” He can do whatever he wants here. He runs the executive branch. Now, politically he may not be able to do so, but I don\u2019t think politics ought to stop him.<\/p>\n
This is it, folks. This is make-or-break. They\u2019re trying to take Donald Trump out here. They\u2019re trying to end his presidency and the effectiveness of it. They are trying to bring him to a screeching halt. This is not the time to play by the rules. They aren\u2019t. And, by the way, Trump wouldn\u2019t be breaking the rules. He\u2019d be breaking political protocol. “You\u2019re not supposed to taunt your way into telling the independent counsel what he can or can\u2019t do.” But he clearly can, if he can fire him, he can direct his investigation.<\/p>\n
Now, he can\u2019t make him do criminal things. He can\u2019t make him ignore criminal things. That\u2019s what the pardon is for. And again, I want to point out that I think there\u2019s a real conflict here that\u2019s not Trump, it\u2019s Mueller. Mueller and Comey, I mean, the news has been filled with stories about how much they like each other and how closely they\u2019ve worked together and how much they respect each other and how there\u2019s a father-son mentor-apprentice kind of relationship between them. That Mueller has provided countenance and guidance.<\/p>\n
Well, Comey is gonna be a central figure in this. Comey is the central figure. It\u2019s Comey changing his interpretation of what Trump said that converts this from a nothing burger to a case of obstruction. So it\u2019s clear to me, Trump didn\u2019t obstruct anything. He didn\u2019t follow up on Comey and make him shut it down. He didn\u2019t obstruct anything.<\/p>\n
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Did Comey, by the way, report any of this horrible Trump behavior to anybody? For example, did he report it to Congress? And he\u2019s had numerous appearances before various committees where he\u2019s testified. Did he say, did he blow the whistle per se on Trump for trying to interfere in his precious investigation? He didn\u2019t. In fact, he did just the exact opposite.<\/p>\n
“On March 20, over a month after the Flynn conversation, Comey gave his stunning congressional testimony, pronouncing publicly that the FBI was conducting a counterintelligence probe of Russia\u2019s interference in the 2016 election, and that the probe included scrutinizing both the ties of Trump associates to the Putin regime and ‘any coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian efforts.\u2019 The FBI, he darkly added, would make ‘an assessment of whether any crimes were committed.'”<\/p>\n
This led the media to assume the FBI director had confirmed the president was a suspect. It alarmed lawmakers. But at this time Comey had already told everybody Trump was not a suspect. Trump was not a suspect. Comey had told Congress this in March. Everybody acted on it as though they didn\u2019t know it for the next two months. And Comey repeatedly said under oath that he had found no evidence that the Russians had obstructed anything or affected the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n
So, given that no one who was aware of the facts believed that Trump had committed obstruction at the time the conduct occurred, why is Trump under investigation for obstruction now? When he had the Flynn conversation, “Gee, I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go,” if it wasn\u2019t obstruction then, if Comey didn\u2019t report it, if he didn\u2019t whistle blow it, if he didn\u2019t act concerned, if he didn\u2019t give it a second thought, why, after he got fired, did he all of a sudden think that he was being ordered to?<\/p>\n
This Valentine\u2019s dinner, February 14th, a lot of people in the aftermath knew what had happened at this dinner. A lot of people knew that Trump was not a suspect. And so now all that\u2019s out the window. The collusion case has fallen apart. They have to go somewhere \u2019cause they\u2019ve got multiple investigations going. And you know how embarrassing it would be for Comey to have to stand up there and say or whoever else, “Sorry. Nothing to see here. Sorry. We didn\u2019t find anything.”<\/p>\n
You think it\u2019s dangerous to be on the streets with Democrats running around now? Wait until that day comes, if they ever announce, “Nothing to see here. Trump didn\u2019t collude and there\u2019s no obstruction.” You don\u2019t want to be anywhere near any mainstream Democrats on that day. They can\u2019t afford to announce that, especially after what happened in Alexandria yesterday. And they know it. But the purpose of the investigation is not to exonerate. It is to find guilt. And they\u2019re not gonna stop, folks, \u2019til they think they can make the case.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Mark in Phoenix. Great to have you, sir. What\u2019s up?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos from Arizona. The point I wanted to bring up is I think that the FBI is no longer a law enforcement organization, but is now driven by ideology. I come to this, my reasoning is that the — are you still there, Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019m here. I\u2019m listening.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay. My reasoning is that of course this leak comes out about this obstruction of justice the same day there\u2019s a shooting of Republican congressmen, FBI hasn\u2019t a clue as to what could possibly be the motive behind that, just like a while back you had a skit where there was these Muslim individuals with Muslim names and of course they couldn\u2019t figure out why anything happened there. I think that was a couple years ago. And also now Comey\u2019s buddy is there, they don\u2019t want to investigate any leaks. They don\u2019t want to prosecute Clinton. They don\u2019t want to prosecute Lynch. All these things just make them complicit in the effort to destroy Trump.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019ve thought about this business of not investigating leaks, and it finally hit me that one of the reasons why — Comey was never interested in investigating — I know it frustrated Trump because that\u2019s where real felonies have taken place, leaking this kind of data, even if they\u2019re making it up, is felonious. That\u2019s where real crimes have taken place. And we now know there were no crimes of collusion. But what if the reason it wasn\u2019t pursued is because Comey was one of them?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Also, Comey\u2019s gonna surround himself with other ideologues.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s hard not to do in Washington these days, unfortunately. But, look, I get your point. We have this image of the FBI. It\u2019s part of the justice system. And the hope is that the people working in there are able to set aside ideological preferences on personal policy and simply focus on facts. We expect journalists to do it, too, but I frankly think it\u2019s impossible if you\u2019re really, really wound up and care about things. But justice is a whole different thing \u2019cause there\u2019s the rule of law you\u2019re dealing with here, plus statutory law that\u2019s quite clear in many cases whether crimes have been committed or not, but burden of proof is always on the prosecution, people making charges.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re right, people are beginning to doubt the legitimacy. You know, some people that used to work in the FBI are too. People that I know used to work at the FBI were the kind of people you\u2019re talking about. And they\u2019re concerned. I mean, the FBI director, there hasn\u2019t been anybody like Comey doing this stuff, making himself so publicly visible and making himself the focus of so many things the FBI\u2019s involved in since Hoover. Most FBI directors, you never even see \u2019em until one of them gets fired. And Comey has been positioning himself here to be seen as a coequal of the president, the executive branch, in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Kathryn, Providence, Rhode Island. Welcome. It\u2019s great to have you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Glad to be on your show. I wanted to tell you, first of all, to take heart because for the first time, the Providence Journal, which I read every day here in Providence, Rhode Island, has editorially agreed with you<\/a> by saying, quote, “A charge that Mr. Trump conspired with Russians to swing the election is still front and center in Washington, though there was no apparent evidence of it after many months, drowning out discussions of the nation\u2019s many serious problems.”<\/p>\nRUSH: When did this get published?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Today.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Today. So the Providence, Rhode Island, is it the Journal?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, the Providence Journal.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The Providence Journal today says, finally after all this time, there\u2019s nothing there to the Russian —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly. It is buried in kind of a long editorial about the shooting and how sad it was and what\u2019s wrong with the country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait. It\u2019s an editorial, not a news story?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s an editorial called, “An Attack On All Americans.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: What\u2019s the difference anymore. What\u2019s an attack on all Americans?<\/p>\n
CALLER: They\u2019re talking about yesterday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, it wasn\u2019t. It was an attack on Steve Scalise and three or four. It was not an attack on all — that kind of language — I\u2019ve never — these people trying to wax eloquent — it was an attack on all — no. We\u2019re not all in the hospital.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, I wondered why do they have to play baseball? Why can\u2019t they just stay in the domed building and make laws for us?<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, because they were out there practicing bipartisanship for the charity fundraising baseball —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, they were, they were. But I wanted to say that when you get to the front page, however, it\u2019s as you said with the Washington Post, the big story is the Trump part of probe, is from the Washington Post, and then lower down there\u2019s a thing about the baseball game and all that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And when they describe that Trump is part of the probe, they can completely reject what they\u2019ve done editorially because they say the Republican-led Senate votes decisively to punish Moscow for interfering in the 26th election. So they don\u2019t say alleged and that goes on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I hadn\u2019t brought that up. When I saw that honestly I said, what are these clowns doing?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, are they journalists or what?<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, I\u2019m talking about Congress, the Senate. The Republicans are joining with the Democrats in furthering this falsehood that there was collusion and that the Russians need to be punished. There wasn\u2019t any collusion. Well, I guess not. It could be — I discussed this at great length yesterday — that everybody, everybody believes the Russians affected the election somehow.<\/p>\n
That was my big deal yesterday, how astounded I was. I ran across a blog post, and the blog post was, what do we do if there\u2019s nothing to this story? Meaning, Trump and his people colluded with Putin and his people to screw Hillary out of the White House, the election? I don\u2019t want to relieve that, folks. I made the point on it yesterday. I\u2019m struck by how many people still give credence and credibility to the mainstream media, which has demonstrated they don\u2019t deserve that kind of benefit of the doubt anymore.<\/p>\n
The mainstream media needs to be suspected on everything they write. We need to doubt it and then endeavor to prove it to ourselves. We can no longer take it on faith that what we\u2019re reading, particularly about stories like this involving Trump, are just automatically true. And I guess I was just astounded yesterday that there isn\u2019t even the doubt. That if the Post and if the precious New York Times are out there saying that there any are members of the Trump team that may have colluded, even though there\u2019s no evidence, that we\u2019ve got to stop and consider the possibility.<\/p>\n
So in effect we\u2019ve got to stop and join forces with the mainstream media here until we can demonstrate otherwise. And I think they haven\u2019t earned this blanket acceptance of what they report anymore. I think they\u2019ve blown that. So the Senate tightening sanctions, ramping up sanctions on the Russians, was in response not to the collusion with Trump, but it furthers the idea that the Russians attempted or succeeded. If we\u2019re gonna sanction them, if we\u2019re gonna increase the sanctions, then obviously the belief is that the Russians tampered with the election.<\/p>\n
And, folks, there still isn\u2019t any evidence of it. It\u2019s just a bunch of wild allegations. It\u2019s a sore point with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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By the way, about that. We\u2019re told that, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard, that Robert Mueller, why, there\u2019s no one with a finer reputation. Same thing they told us about Comey. No one more highly respected in Washington than Bob Mueller. Why, Bob Mueller has been everywhere and done it all. He\u2019s been an FBI director himself. He\u2019s been an independent counsel. He\u2019s been a lawyer, he\u2019s been a lot. Bob Mueller is impeccable. Bob Mueller, you can\u2019t touch his reputation, it is clean and pure as the wind-driven.<\/p>\n