{"id":257014,"date":"2017-12-06T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=257014"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T21:16:29","slug":"former-cia-analyst-suggests-end-game-trump-should-pardon-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/12\/06\/former-cia-analyst-suggests-end-game-trump-should-pardon-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA Analyst Suggests End Game: Trump Should Pardon Everybody"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, yesterday… Grab audio sound bites 5 and 6. Yesterday we had a caller on the program asking me, “Rush, what\u2019s the endgame here?”<\/a><\/p>\n

Regarding the Mueller investigation with Trump and the collusion with Russia. And I know what the caller meant. He wasn\u2019t asking me, “How is it going to end?” What he wanted to know was, “How can we make it end?” And I\u2019ve asked a bunch of people this question overnight. You know what\u2019s fascinating about it? You talk to people in Washington, even people on our side — even people who are every bit of the same frame of mind we are about this, but they\u2019re in Washington — and once this investigation starts, in their world, there\u2019s no way it ends until the people running it decide it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way to stop it.<\/p>\n

This is Washington.<\/p>\n

So when there\u2019s a special counsel investigation or a congressional investigation, there\u2019s nothing anybody can do to stop it. It\u2019s just gonna run its course. So the strategizing takes that into account, dealing with what the potential outcomes are going to be, when it ends, how long it\u2019s gonna be. But last night on the Fox News Channel there was a guest by the name of Fred Fleitz, and it might be Fleitz. I\u2019m not sure. I\u2019ve got a pronounciator here. F-L-Y-T-Z. I guess that\u2019s Fleitz, and Fred Fleitz is a… What is he? Fred Fleitz is a former CIA analyst, and he was brought on Fox to talk about the Mueller investigation.<\/p>\n

\"\"Question: “You believe you\u2019ve come up with a theory that there was a very intentional trap that was set here. Explain that.”<\/p>\n

FLEITZ: The Democrats paid for this dossier, the purpose of which was to set off an FBI investigation. The Trump campaign is made up of outsiders. They\u2019re likely to get caught up in this investigation. After all, when Michael Flynn talked to the FBI, he didn\u2019t have an attorney with him. These last-minute policy decisions by the Obama administration to sanction the Russians? I think it was bait. It was bait to get Trump officials to do something. I think they were being monitored by intelligence agencies. They were looking for evidence to get the Trump transition team with, because I think this was all a trap by the Democrats. If this can be established, I think President Trump should pardon everyone, and I think that\u2019s what Republicans on the Hill should be calling for.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There is your endgame! A former CIA analyst, Fred Fleitz. Now he\u2019s not saying anything you haven\u2019t heard here. But the fact that he is a former CIA analyst gives him, in my estimation, credibility. He knows exactly what these… He\u2019s exactly right: This whole thing has been a trap based on that phony dossier which was based on a phony collusion charge. All this… You know, I\u2019ve blown a gasket two days in a row on this. You know how livid I am. I\u2019m about ready to explode over this whole thing. Nothing in this is real.<\/p>\n

And all of these alleged crimes and all these potential charges and plea deals are based on “something did happen.” There\u2019s no reality here. It is a setup. It\u2019s a totally manufactured trap. There was no Trump-Russia collusion. There was Hillary-Russia collusion. The Mueller team is littered with pro-Obama and pro-Hillary biased so-called investigators! There\u2019s nothing about this that is legitimate! Yet you talk to people in Washington, “Well, there\u2019s nothing we can do. I mean, the investigation has to run its course.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, not according to Fred Fleitz, who says Trump should just pardon everybody because this thing is illegitimate. It\u2019s bogus. It\u2019s a trap. Just pardon everybody, and that ends it. When you pardon everybody — pardon Flynn, pardon everybody — there\u2019s no more the investigation can do. Now, the danger. The people who think, “No, no, no, no!” “It\u2019s the wrong thing to do,” they\u2019ll tell you. “This is just gonna ramp up impeachment! This is gonna give Democrats the evidence here that Trump is obstructing justice by pardoning everybody.”<\/p>\n

You know, I think if an investigation was legitimate and if there were a legitimate crime being pursued, then that course of action would carry great risk. But this is nothing! Folks, this is totally bogus. Trump can go on TV, he can do rallies, he can spend as much time as he wants explaining how the very the beginning of this is phony baloney; there\u2019s no reality to it. There was never any collusion. The dossier was created by Hillary; paid for by her team. It was written by people that hate Trump and love Obama. It\u2019s one of the greatest opposition research tricks ever.<\/p>\n

In fact, this may be the biggest scandal in Washington history, if the truth of this is ever known. This dwarfs Watergate and whatever other scandal you can think of. This is dynamic how a fake dossier and a phony premise has led to the ruination of one life and maybe more, as many scalps as they can get. Shutting this down would not be obstructing justice. Shutting this down would be preserving the Constitution and eliminating a bogus political operation.<\/p>\n

One more from Fred Fleitz. “You say there\u2019s a possibility Michael Flynn actually did not lie to the FBI. What do you mean that maybe he didn\u2019t even lie to them?”<\/p>\n

FLEITZ: My friend Michael Ledeen said this today, that General Flynn may have copped a plea to this particular instance of lying to the FBI to save his family the pain of hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal bills concerning his dealings with Ukraine and Turkey and other things. You just can\u2019t beat the U.S. government with its limitless resources. That\u2019s Ledeen\u2019s position, and I believe Ledeen.<\/p>\n