{"id":261064,"date":"2018-01-19T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=261064"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:25:28","slug":"the-biggest-political-scandal-of-our-lifetimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/19\/the-biggest-political-scandal-of-our-lifetimes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Political Scandal of Our Lifetimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The other big story that is out there<\/a>: “A review of a classified document [a memo] outlining what is described as extensive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse was made available to all House members Thursday and the revelations could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and Department of Justice, several sources with knowledge of the document stated. These sources say the report is ‘explosive,\u2019 stating they would not be surprised if it leads to the end of Robert Mueller\u2019s Special Counsel investigation into President Trump and his associates.<\/p>\n

\"\"“The House Intelligence Committee passed the motion along party lines Thursday to make the classified report alleging extensive \u2018FISA Abuse\u2019 related to the controversial [Trump] dossier available to all House members,” and it was, and they\u2019ve all read it.  They\u2019ve all seen it.  It\u2019s just, what is it, two- or three-page memo.  It\u2019s not extensive.  “Some members of the House viewed the document in a secure room Thursday.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a four-page memo is what it is, and do you realize none of it has leaked? (interruption) What do you mean, you “can\u2019t figure out why not”?  (interruption) Oh, you want to know why our people aren\u2019t leaking it? Well, the reason the Democrats aren\u2019t leaking it is \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t help them to leak it.  The Democrats in the deep state — various cabinet level and intelligence level positions — were leaking like a sieve, and so was Bannon.<\/p>\n

I mean, there\u2019s so many people leaking during the entire first year of the Trump administration, some of them in the administration, but most of them not.  Most of them at the intelligence agencies.  Every day, as you recall, there was seemingly a bombshell. “This is the end of it! This the end of the Trump presidency! This is it! This is the silver bullet!” Yet with each of those stories, a line was buried in each one saying, “To date, none of these leads have led to any hard evidence.  But officials say the odds are that they\u2019ll find it.” Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

\"\"So apparently, if we had to guess what this is, this four-page memo details how a federal judge was lied to in an application for a warrant that would grant permission to surveil the Trump campaign and the Trump transition.  Without having read this memo, with relative certitude — not ontological certitude, relative certitude — I can pretty much speculate what happened here.  We know that the dossier was written by somebody named Glenn Simpson<\/a>, Fusion GPS, and that he hired a guy named Christopher Steele to actually do it.<\/p>\n

The money was sent from the Clinton campaign to a law firm where it was essentially laundered.  We have since come to learn that Christopher Steele didn\u2019t write hardly any of it, that he turned it over to Russians.  Russians wrote the Steele dossier.  The vast majority of it.  None of it has ever been corroborated.  None of it has been verified.  But apparently it was used to go to the FISA court and seek a warrant to surveil the Trump administration — the Trump transition and the Trump campaign — on the basis that what was in this dossier made it likely that the Russians and Trump had worked together to steal a presidential election.<\/p>\n

Now, if any part of that happens to be truthful, this is the biggest political scandal of our lifetimes, and nothing comes close.  For something that was written as a campaign opposition research document to then be passed off and lied about as legitimately secured and obtained intelligence by the FBI and by the CIA and by other American intelligence agencies? If it was nothing more than a series of political attacks created by one presidential candidate against another and it was used to go to this secret FISA court and get a warrant to spy on the other presidential candidate and his operation?<\/p>\n

That would mean that heads everywhere would roll.<\/p>\n

This is… It\u2019s difficult to describe the serious nature of this, and judging by what people who\u2019ve read this four-page memo are saying, this is clearly what\u2019s happened.  There\u2019s obviously stuff that we don\u2019t know.  Now, about the FISA warrant application.  There\u2019s one thing about this that does remain a curiosity to me.  The president of the United States runs the Department of Justice because it\u2019s part of the executive branch.  The president of the United States could order all of this released.  Trump could have — at any time in the past 12 months — demanded this stuff be released. Unseal this, take a look at affidavit and what\u2019s in the actual warrant.<\/p>\n

Trump could have any time in the past 12 months demanded this stuff be released, unseal this, take a look at the affidavit and what\u2019s in the actual warrant. Well, you have to figure that more than just the Trump dossier was used. If you go back and you look at the texts between Peter Strzok and his paramour, Lisa Page, and some of the communications going on between people at the FBI, like Bruce Ohr and his wife who was working at Fusion GPS. I mean, the tentacles of this thing are deep, and they are tangled.<\/p>\n

But it is clear that they were collecting information on Trump that\u2019s maybe more wide-ranging than just the dossier. Now, these people, what did they believe, what got them started on this? What made them create the dossier, why did they feel it was necessary to use the dossier? They had to get rid of Trump. They just had to. This guy\u2019s so unqualified, so unfit. On the basis of what did they do all this?<\/p>\n

\"\"They did it on the basis that this guy simply doesn\u2019t have what it takes to be president. He doesn\u2019t have the morality. He doesn\u2019t have the education. He doesn\u2019t have the intelligence. He doesn\u2019t have the deportment. He doesn\u2019t have the mannerisms. He doesn\u2019t have any of the human characteristics that qualify for what we want in a president.<\/p>\n

In other words, the guy is human debris. In their world, Donald Trump is scum. Donald Trump is the bottom of the barrel. And what if they were collecting data on that aspect of their belief, in addition to the Trump dossier? In other words, what if there\u2019s all kinds of stuff in this warrant application that attack Trump\u2019s character and attack his honesty and his credibility and his finances? Who knows. These people probably threw the kitchen sink in this warrant application.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m thinking that this may be one reason Trump doesn\u2019t want it seen, because of all the other stuff that is perhaps in the application. Everybody knows, or a lot of people by now know that the Trump dossier is bogus. In fact, the Mueller investigation is not even relying on that.<\/p>\n

The Mueller investigation has, I\u2019m convinced, dropped collusion. They\u2019re not even looking. They\u2019re looking at obstruction. They\u2019re looking Trump obstructing justice, anti-Constitution. They\u2019re looking at Trump finances. They\u2019re looking at any number of things that would disqualify Trump on a human qualification level. I think this collusion or conspiracy between Trump and Russia has bombed out. There\u2019s nothing to it. But these members of Congress have now seen it, and they are talking about it. And they are now lobbying for a public release of this memo on abuses of the FISA system.<\/p>\n

Steve King is one who has tweeted, “I have read the memo” — he\u2019s a Republican from Iowa — “I have read the memo. The sickening reality has set in. I no longer hold out hope there is an innocent explanation for the information the public has seen. I have long said it is worse than Watergate. It was.”<\/p>\n

Another tweet. And this is from Ron DeSantis, a Republican from Florida. “The classified report compiled by House Intelligence is deeply troubling and raises serious questions about the upper echelon of the Obama DOJ and Comey FBI as it relates to the so-called collusion investigation.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Lee Zeldin: “Just read the classified doc @HPSCI re FISA abuse. I\u2019m calling for its immediate public release w\/relevant sourced material. The public must have access ASAP! Releasing this classified info doesn\u2019t compromise good sources & methods. It reveals the feds\u2019 reliance on bad sources & methods.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what it reveals — and this is a question that they\u2019re all gonna have to deal with — what it reveals, and I\u2019m guessing, it\u2019s an educated guess. What it reveals is the culpability of Barack Obama himself in all of this. What it reveals is the involvement of Barack Obama in all of this. And the question is gonna be, these people are gonna ask themselves, do we want to totally destroy the faith the American people have in our institutions by informing them what happened with Obama\u2019s involvement or people very close to him.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m just here to tell you there are gonna be a lot of people at various levels of government who are going to think that for the good of the country and the good of our future, it might be better never to release this stuff so that people don\u2019t lose faith in our institutions.<\/p>\n

Now, the purpose will be to protect Obama. And I still think this is only tip of the iceberg. The Steele dossier, the Trump dossier and all these other things, the efforts here that have been made to get rid of Trump, I think, is still only tip of the iceberg. I think we have lived through one of the biggest scandals that we can\u2019t even get our arms around yesterday. Time will tell whether we learn the true extent of it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Some of you think I\u2019m crazy that there would be those who want to protect Obama\u2019s reputation and the presidency by not revealing his culpability. Let me ask you a question, a very quick question. If the United States government learned without doubt that the sun was going to burn out in five years, would they announce it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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