{"id":252181,"date":"2017-10-25T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=252181"},"modified":"2017-10-26T00:15:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T04:15:21","slug":"why-did-jeff-sessions-ever-recuse-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/10\/25\/why-did-jeff-sessions-ever-recuse-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Jeff Sessions Ever Recuse Himself?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Jeff Sessions. I\u2019m gonna… I have to do this. I have to steal the thunder. We have a caller waiting. In fact, let me take the call. It is line 2. It\u2019s James in Cleveland. It would be devastating if I mentioned this and this guy has been on hold for an hour and wants to talk about it. So, James in Cleveland, welcome to the program. Great to have you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. What are you gonna say?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I think it\u2019s time for Jeff Sessions to recuse his recusal of the Russian investigation. Because of this dossier being opposition research or lies, then there\u2019s no basis for his recusal anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You would think. A great point. A point that I was eventually gonna make. I\u2019ve even getting some emails, “Why haven\u2019t you mention Sessions? I can\u2019t believe you let that get…” I can\u2019t do everything in the first hour. No, it is a relevant question to ask. Why did Sessions recuse himself?<\/a> Do you remember what led to this, folks? Because I do. I remember every damn element of this because I\u2019ve been fuming about it since it began. Jeff Sessions — who, for the life of me, I don\u2019t understand why he didn\u2019t suspect what was gonna happen to him in his confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n

Al Franken, a genuine mental midget, went after Sessions on a bunch of bogus hearsay and tried to make something sinister out of Sessions having been at a cocktail party where that fat Russian ambassador was lurking, Sergey Kislyak. This guy was lunching with everybody! He\u2019s the only Russian anybody can find in the Russian collusion scandal, and he\u2019s meeting with everybody. So he and Sessions rubbed shoulders at one of these typical Washington cocktail parties that a think tank throws before one of their scholars presents some presentation that only 10 people in America could possibly understand.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sessions didn\u2019t remember it, and so Stuart Smalley is zeroing in for the kill. Sessions said, “I — I — I don\u2019t remember, Senator.” It turned out he was there. So because he had rubbed elbows with Sergey Kislyak, he felt it necessary to recuse himself from the Russia investigation because there was also an allegation that as a surrogate — spokesman, supporter of Trump\u2019s on the campaign trail — that somehow him ending up as attorney general and overseeing anything involving the Russians would be illegal. It would have a sense of impropriety.<\/p>\n

So Sessions, who is just overflowing with honor and decency, recused himself before talking to Trump about it. Trump was livid. Pfft! I was livid! There was no need for Sessions to recuse himself, and because he did, we now have Mueller. Well, not because he did. I don\u2019t want to lay that off on Attorney General Sessions. But the point is his recusal was totally unnecessary because it was done on the basis of made-up BS. I so want to use the words that “BS” stand for. But I\u2019m not going to because of a sense of honor and propriety here.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m telling you, this is so beyond the pale. So Jeff Sessions has no business being recused. If anything — if anything — President Trump has now more justification than ever for firing Mueller! Mueller was in on this as the previous director of the FBI before Comey! During the Obama administration. In fact, Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal: “The FBI\u2019s Political Meddling<\/a> — Mueller is the wrong sleuth when his ex-agency is so tangled up with Russia.” Yeah. That\u2019s a good way to put it. Trump isn\u2019t tangled up with Russia; Hillary is!<\/p>\n

Not just with faking this dossier, but also with the uranium story. There are people in bed with the Russians. There are people that took Russian money. There are people that personally were enriched financially from an arrangement with the Russians. Their names are Bill and Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump. They don\u2019t have anything to do with this! So Mr. Jenkins begins his piece:<\/p>\n

\"\"“Let\u2019s give plausible accounts of the known facts, then explain why demands that Robert Mueller recuse himself from the Russia investigation may not be the fanciful partisan grandstanding you imagine.” Meaning: It wouldn\u2019t be partisan at all to get rid of the guy now. He\u2019s tainted! He\u2019s been investigating no crime — with no limits on money or investigators — on the basis of something that was entirely made up! The Trump dossier. You still cannot turn on cable news and guarantee that you will even see this story.<\/p>\n

But when you do, nobody will tell you… You\u2019re not gonna see the dots connected. They\u2019re not gonna go back and show you the video clips of Brennan saying that this formed the basis of his investigation, because in the swamp — halfway even at Fox News — it\u2019s not that big a deal. It\u2019s just typical Washington. It\u2019s just the way it works. Well, I\u2019m not in Washington; I don\u2019t live there and I don\u2019t accept that. That\u2019s not near enough an explanation for me — and not that I\u2019m anybody. Look, in the grand scheme of this, I\u2019m a nobody like we all are.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s just infuriating.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, they can\u2019t stop praising Flake, they can\u2019t stop praising McCain, because they\u2019re running around talking about what a reprobate Donald Trump is. And nobody\u2019s talking about what a reprobate Hillary Clinton is. And nobody\u2019s talking about what a low-rent actor Bill Clinton is and this whole gang. To focus on Donald Trump as somehow being unfit for office after we learn this kind of stuff goes on, paid for and made up and written by Bill Clinton and the Democrat National Committee?<\/p>\n

And they want to tell us Trump\u2019s the guy who\u2019s unfit, and they want to try to tell Trump is uncivil, and Trump doesn\u2019t have the proper decorum, and Trump doesn\u2019t have the decency to serve in this office? Jeff Flake and McCain and all these guys who did nothing but lie in every campaign to their constituents in order to get elected! Wait \u2019til you hear. I\u2019ve got a list of things Flake voted for. We\u2019re gonna compare those to the way he campaigned, and we\u2019re gonna learn that Jeff Flake leaving the Senate is a net positive.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Bart in Tucson. I\u2019m glad you called, sir, and waited. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. I wanted to know with this unbelievable amount of corruption — the most I think I\u2019ve ever seen since I\u2019ve been following it — do you think we\u2019ve finally reached a threshold where Sessions and Trump and maybe the Republican leadership are actually going to enforce the law? Do a real investigation and actually, you know, maybe indict these people responsible? Fire Mueller, fire Rosenstein, et cetera?<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Well, here\u2019s the thing. Now, it gets tricky. Do you know, first, that it is not illegal to lie about your political opponent?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s First Amendment. In politics, you can say whatever you want. It muddies and dirties the process. But therefore to (sigh) indict Hillary and go legal on this may not be the way to go. Now, in terms of firing Mueller and having Sessions walk back his recusal and just warn everybody here that this Russia thing is being dropped, there\u2019s nothing to it, the whole thing\u2019s been made up? How do they want to go about doing that? Let me put it this way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had three people now reacting to this saying, “Finally! Finally! We may realize our dream of Hillary Clinton going to jail!” I don\u2019t see that happening. I just don\u2019t. Remember, we\u2019re talking about the Washington establishment. (sigh) I just don\u2019t see her going to jail over any of this. That\u2019s my gut reaction. But it is fascinating… Maybe not fascinating. It is interesting to ask: Why did the Washington Post and TheHill.com drop the dime on this? Now, there are stories on this.<\/p>\n

Maggie Haberman, who is a writer for the New York Times<\/a>, has a short little piece about how livid she is that these sources have been lying to her for a year about this dossier. The impression given is, “You don\u2019t lie to the New York Times! If you do that, we are going to take you out.” But there\u2019s still more to this explanation than just that, because this literally is — just the publishing of these details — throwing the Clintons overboard. And you have to ask: Why? I mean, if you have any curiosity at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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