{"id":243823,"date":"2017-08-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=243823"},"modified":"2017-08-10T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:22:40","slug":"fbi-raids-manaforts-home-even-though-hes-a-cooperating-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/09\/fbi-raids-manaforts-home-even-though-hes-a-cooperating-witness\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Raids Manafort\u2019s Home Even Though He\u2019s a Cooperating Witness!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Okay, so it looks like the whole Russian story has taken a day off. The Drive-Bys are substituting this North Korea situation for the Russian story as the latest example or the latest opportunity or the latest reason, however you want to characterize it, that they say we have to get rid of Trump.<\/p>\n

Now, the Russian story is still there because the FBI raided the home of Paul Manafort [on July 26], former Trump campaign manager, before dawn. Now, the interesting thing about this is Manafort is a cooperating witness! Who in the name of Sam Hill has FBI predawn raids of a cooperating witness? So I had to seek the advice of several in the legal community. ‘Cause this didn\u2019t make any sense to me.<\/p>\n

\"\"The thing about this that is odd is that if Manafort is cooperating, one of two things: Either they don\u2019t trust him to be cooperating, either they think he might not turn over some documents that he has pledged to turn over and so they\u2019re going in there to find it even though he\u2019s cooperating, or it\u2019s a message. A predawn raid of your campaign manager, who is cooperating with you, is a shot across the bow. It could be an effort here to signal — because we\u2019ve also learned overnight that the Trump legal team is in regular contact with Mueller.<\/p>\n

Did you know that? The Trump legal team is apparently in regular contact with Mueller, and, according to what I read — we\u2019re still tracking some of this stuff down. It\u2019s been a very, very hectic morning here. I\u2019ve only had about 20% of my time to prep the program because I\u2019ve been doing some tech testing that has got me so ticked off I\u2019m actually withholding my anger here. I\u2019d love to share it with you just to get it out. But, anyway, I\u2019m doing my best to keep it contained, which I seem to do every day. I\u2019m the one that has to keep it contained.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t unload or everybody else goes nuts. Everybody else can unload on me, but I have to keep it inside, let it percolate and it explodes somewhere like on the golf course. I pretend the golf ball is Hillary Clinton, and bammo, whack. But, anyway, the Trump team supposedly is communicating with Mueller. And, further, the messages are, apparently, that Trump wants his lawyers to tell Mueller how much he respects what he\u2019s doing and how much we\u2019re willing to cooperate.<\/p>\n

And my first reaction — well, I\u2019m not really surprised that legal teams would be communicating with each other in a circumstance like this. I\u2019d be surprised if Trump was personally communicating with Mueller. But if it\u2019s his legal team communicating with Mueller and Mueller\u2019s team, then that\u2019s somewhat more sensible, understandable. But, nevertheless, raiding Manafort\u2019s home is — there\u2019s something screwy.<\/p>\n

I want to take you back to a couple of — well, one point. Grab sound bite number one, because I made this point back on August 4th. I forget what the specific news item was. We went back to the archives here, and whatever it was, it made me say this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSH ARCHIVE: They\u2019re trying to trick somebody into obstructing their investigation. That\u2019s what this is right now. I\u2019ll tell you, with this grand jury now being impaneled, I\u2019m gonna tell you something. For whoever they end up calling as witnesses, this is a very dangerous time. It\u2019s a very dangerous time for Manafort. It\u2019s a dangerous time for Flynn, who already has his own grand jury. You know, Mueller already had one for Flynn.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true. And sets up a new one. That\u2019s back on August 4th, so that\u2019s just, what, five days ago. So last week. Now this predawn raid of a supposedly cooperating witness is puzzling. Now, Manafort\u2019s allies, if you will, fear that what\u2019s going on here is an attempt by Mueller — remember, there\u2019s no limits on this guy\u2019s scope. He can investigate anything. And Manafort buddies fear that Mueller is hoping or trying to build a case against Manafort that\u2019s unrelated to the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n

And if they can make a case — and, by the way, when they have unlimited money and a no-limitations scope and if they want to find somebody who has done something illegal, irregular, or if they want to create that — this is another thing — they can create a process crime. Very simply, a witness can tell Mueller\u2019s team, “Yeah, that happened on Tuesday.” But what if it really happened on Wednesday? They can say the guy lied to \u2019em. Process crime.<\/p>\n

The point is that once they find something to charge, then they\u2019ve got leverage, and then they can offer a deal. “Okay, Manafort, look what we found here. We found that back in 2008, you were doing X, and it led to event Y, and we don\u2019t think you want people to know about this. We\u2019re willing to let you go on this if you\u2019ll turn state\u2019s evidence or if you\u2019ll tell us what was actually going on between the Trump campaign and Russia.” That\u2019s the great fear.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why I said five days ago it\u2019s a very dangerous time for people that are gonna end up being called before this grand jury that Mueller has impaneled or who are under investigation, because of the specter of a process crime. Remember, this is what did in Martha Stewart. They didn\u2019t find any evidence of any wrongdoing, so they create the crime during the investigation. It\u2019s become a staple, if you will, in the ammunition that prosecutors have at their disposal. If they want to get somebody, interview \u2019em 15 different times on the same subject.<\/p>\n

You get to the point where the interviewee says, “I\u2019ve told you this! I\u2019ve told you this 10 times. What more…?” “We want to hear it again.” And if there\u2019s any variance, here comes the process charge. “You lied to federal investigators. You lied to us!” “I didn\u2019t lie. I got the date wrong.” “You lied. That\u2019s the charge! We have the power, we have the ability, we have the desire to charge you.” So then you get Manafort on something unrelated to the 2016 campaign, and then you try to get Manafort to flip and give you information about Trump or Trump\u2019s inner circle, the Russians, the presidential campaign, anything.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no limits on this, folks. It is a very dangerous time for everybody involved. And when I saw this predawn raid… Look, it caught me up short because he supposedly is cooperating. You just don\u2019t raid before everybody\u2019s up? I mean, here you\u2019re sleeping — you\u2019re soundly sleeping — and all of a sudden lights and sirens outside your house before the sun comes up, and it\u2019s the FBI with a search warrant? And they left with a bunch of documents, by the way.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, here\u2019s how we know the Manafort story. It\u2019s in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. Let me read you a little quote here from Wall Street Journal article on Manafort. “Federal agents working with special counsel Robert Mueller last month [July 26th] raided the Virginia home of Paul Manafort, President Trump\u2019s former campaign manager to obtain documents and other material, according to people familiar with the matter.” Who would that be? Who would be “familiar with the matter”? People working on the matter. That would be Mueller\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

Of course it\u2019s a leak. Absolutely right it is a leak, another leak. It\u2019s July 26th? This is August the 9th, so 2-1\/2 weeks after the fact, and it happens right in the swirl of this North Korea stuff where the Russia story had taken some hours off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The interesting thing about this is Manafort is a cooperating witness! Who in the name of Sam Hill has FBI predawn raids of a cooperating witness? So I had to seek the advice of several in the legal community. 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