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<\/a>And they were talking about me and my comments about the special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation into Trump. To start things off, Asman introduces and plays a clip of me from yesterday\u2019s program<\/a>. We have two bites here with Asman setting it up and then the second bite will be Barnes. Here\u2019s the first.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-07-at-3.28.33-PM.png\")
ASMAN: It\u2019s these conflicts of interest that lead people to believe —<\/p>\n
BARNES: Yeah.<\/p>\n
ASMAN: — that it\u2019s just a witch hunt, at this point. Rush Limbaugh, by the way, spoke to this point earlier today.<\/p>\n
BARNES: Okay.<\/p>\n
ASMAN: Let\u2019s just play the sound bite and get your response. Go ahead.<\/p>\n
RUSH ARCHIVE: The Mueller team is comprised of not faithful and nonpartisan, objective, law-abiding investigators. It is populated by Trump-hating, pro-Hillary, pro-Obama partisans who have been given unlimited money and unlimited purview to use the power of the federal government to impediment their political ideas, not enforce the law.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So Fred Barnes was asked to respond to that. Asman said, “So, it\u2019s hard to argue with that, isn\u2019t it, Fred? What do you think?”<\/p>\n
BARNES: I think he exaggerates a little, but certainly not entirely. I mean, look, the original hires by the special counsel there, Robert Mueller, were people who had been Democratic donors. One of them was a lawyer for the Clinton Foundation. These were people who came with a partisan tilt. Why they were hired, I don\u2019t know. But it was clear who they were, what they\u2019d done.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, look, we like Fred Barnes here, but Fred, what was exaggerated? You know, this is one of those things, “Well, yeah. So you\u2019re playing me a sound bite of Rush. Right. So I can\u2019t fully embrace that without getting the Dershowitz treatment. So I\u2019ve got to kind of pooh-pooh it, but I can\u2019t disagree with it, \u2019cause it\u2019s right. So what I\u2019ll say is, ‘Well, he exaggerates a little bit.'” He did laugh there at the early part of the sound bite.<\/p>\n
When you or I or anybody use terms like “populated by Trump-hating,” that\u2019s when they laugh, because establishment types don\u2019t talk that way, even if they think it. “Trump-hating? That\u2019s beneath our communication guidelines. We just don\u2019t speak that way.” So they can\u2019t endorse that kind of word assemblage, if you will. But the bottom line is that everybody in Washington knows what\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n
This boils down to some are willing to say it and some aren\u2019t. I\u2019m not talking about Fred Barnes. Fred got his digs in there, but it\u2019s one of the problems that we have. I mean, the Mueller investigation is obviously a scam or a sham. The thing is based on a totally false premise, total absence of a crime. There is literally no… According to Justice Department regulations, there\u2019s no reason for a special counsel, because there is no crime.<\/p>\n
Yet there\u2019s an investigation anyway, and the more people are unwilling to characterize this for what it is, then the less power the analysis of this is gonna have, and the American people deserve to be told the truth about this. Now, here\u2019s a different take on it, a different approach that, to some, is surprise. This is Donald Rumsfeld. This is last night on Fox. Question: “Who is a bigger threat to us, Russia or China?”<\/p>\n