{"id":261911,"date":"2018-01-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=261911"},"modified":"2018-01-29T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T20:46:01","slug":"facebook-we-cant-prove-or-disprove-trump-russia-collusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/26\/facebook-we-cant-prove-or-disprove-trump-russia-collusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: We Can\u2019t Prove or Disprove Trump-Russia Collusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This next story actually dovetails with our first caller today, Rachel. We were discussing<\/a>, she wanted to know, where do I go to find straight-down-the-middle news — something that\u2019s reliable, factual, untainted, I don\u2019t have any doubts about it — and I told her there is no such place. And, by the way, when has there ever been? Well, I\u2019ll guarantee you back in the sixties — in the fifties and sixties, when it was just ABC, CBS, NBC, you\u2019d be stunned the number of people that thought it was gospel. Not everybody did, but it\u2019s not that way now, because the Drive-By Media\u2019s monopoly has been blown to smithereens.<\/p>\n

That began in 1988. So in the course of our discussion, I was asking her questions. I set up some circumstances in the Trump-Russia collusion story. I pointed out there\u2019s no evidence, the people making the charge for it have no evidence. In fact, the only evidence we have is that Hillary and her campaign colluded with Russia in the creation of the Trump dossier. I said, “What would it take for you to believe?” She said, “Trump would have to prove he didn\u2019t do it.” I said, “How can he do that? How can anybody prove they didn\u2019t do anything?”<\/p>\n

Besides that, that\u2019s not what\u2019s on the table here. This is a legal matter. We have a special counsel — Robert Mueller and Koup & the Gang — and they\u2019re trying to put Trump in jail. They\u2019re trying to get Trump kicked out of office. “Now, in that circumstance, Rachel,” I said brilliantly, “they have to prove that he did it! So could you tell me what would Trump have to do — what could Trump do — to show you he didn\u2019t do it?” (ringing) And of course, there wasn\u2019t an answer because there isn\u2019t. (ringing) You can\u2019t prove a negative. (ringing)<\/p>\n

Another example. (ringing) Wait a minute. Who\u2019s buzzing me now? (ringing) I can\u2019t take this call now, and I don\u2019t even know… I\u2019m sorry about that, folks. I just ditched it. See, I didn\u2019t even have to pick up the phone to ditch it. I just ditched it right there on the trusty Apple Watch, and it\u2019s gone. Now, remember I have said to you that in my music-playing days, deejay days, I had a program director who had a philosophy that you can never be hurt by a song you don\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

And what that means is, if you play a song that a lot of people don\u2019t like, they will punch the button and go to another station, and that hurts you. So his theory was, “If we miss, if we don\u2019t play a couple songs that are good, nobody\u2019s gonna ever know that we\u2019re not playing \u2019em. But if we play a wrong tune and they punch out, we\u2019ve had it.” I said, “Yeah, but can\u2019t we benefit by playing that?” He said. “Yeah, of course, but they\u2019ll never know we\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

“They can\u2019t prove that we\u2019re not playing it, because nobody listens 24\/7, 365.” Same thing here. There\u2019s nothing anybody can do — Trump or anybody — to prove he didn\u2019t collude with the Russians. But fortunately in our way of life, our system, he doesn\u2019t have to. So, boy, does this story…? What a great dovetail this is. This is from TheHill.com, and he\u2019s the headline: “Facebook Tells Congress it Cannot Prove or Disprove Trump-Russia Collusion.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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Now, you talk about something ending with a whimper? The Facebook connection was the closest thing the Democrats thought they had as proof of Russian collusion. You know why? Ads! They are convinced… Remember that sound bite we played earlier this week? I\u2019m driving home, I\u2019m listening to these eggheads on MSNBC, and one of them — Chris Jansing — has got some expert from some Democrat think tank, and she\u2019s saying, “We have just discovered, we have just learned that an increasing number of Russian bots are driving the hashtag to release the memo!”<\/p>\n

And this holier-than-thou, stuffed-shirt guest said, “This is what we have feared. This, Chris, is exactly what we\u2019ve been afraid of!” So I\u2019m riveted to this because we two people that don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about, simply hoping and wishing and making it up. So they\u2019re thinking, “The American people couldn\u2019t possibly want this memo released,” the Devin Nunes memo. “The American people couldn\u2019t possibly want that released. It has to be the Russians do it.”<\/p>\n

The Democrats\u2019 fallback is the Russians are responsible for everything that\u2019s going against them — which is funny, because usually these people love Russians and love communists. Oh. Speaking of that. Wait \u2019til you hear. I\u2019ve got a couple sound bites from a Millennial. Wait \u2019til you hear this. Do not let me get to the second half hour with not having aired these things. “Facebook Tells Congress it Cannot Prove or Disprove Trump-Russia Collusion.”<\/p>\n

The Democrats are relying on Facebook ads, everything, \u2019cause they\u2019re grasping at straws, \u2019cause there isn\u2019t any evidence Trump did it! The evidence is that the Russians were colluding with Hillary. “Facebook informed Congress in newly released documents that it could not prove or disprove collusion between Trump\u2019s campaign and Russians who may have used the online platform to try to sway opinions during the 2016 election.” Now, some people think this would be the big news of the day.<\/p>\n

I think this is a chock, because the whole notion, “Facebook Tells Congress it Cannot Prove or Disprove…”? That\u2019s not the story. The story is: Facebook tells Congress it cannot prove Trump-Russia collusion! There is no disproof! There is no proof somebody didn\u2019t do it. I know you\u2019re thinking, “Okay. Somebody robs a bank and the guy accused of it\u2019s sitting at home with his family having turkey. You can prove he wasn\u2019t there.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, I know. An alibi, I know. But in this circumstance, there isn\u2019t any proof that Trump didn\u2019t do it. There has to be proof that he did. That\u2019s the story and that should be the headline: “Facebook Tells Congress It Cannot Prove Trump-Russia Collusion.” Throwing “disprove” in there remains a possibility. And it isn\u2019t! (interruption) No, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going out on a limb. I do not think, I\u2019ve never thought this happened. I\u2019ve never thought Russia could do anything to sway the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where this has always been bogus to me — and everybody before the election\u2019s even said so. Obama, any number of people said our presidential election is too diverse, it\u2019s too spread out, it\u2019s too widespread. There is no way. Voting machines are not even connected to the internet! There is no way the Russians could determine the outcome of an election and get away with it without doing things that would be noticed. But even if… I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible. So that\u2019s been the faulty premise of this from the get-go.<\/p>\n

“In written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee, Facebook representatives were asked whether metadata on their site could reveal possible collusion between Trump\u2019s campaign and the Russian government, a possibility raised by some researchers.” What researchers? Who are they? “‘Several independent researchers have said that Facebook has the ability to search for content or metadata that could substantiate or disprove allegations of possible collusion between the Russian disinformation operation and the Trump campaign\u2019s own social media efforts…<\/p>\n

“Facebook does not believe it is in a position to substantiate or disprove allegations of possible collusion,\u2019 the company responded…” Well, maybe not, but we can prove that Hillary did. So what are we really doing here? We can prove that Hillary\u2019s campaign did. We can prove that the dossier is unverified and uncorroborated, and that was even admitted to by Comey in congressional testimony, after it had been used probably to get a FISA warrant!<\/p>\n

Facebook tells Congress it can\u2019t prove or disprove…? So you might think, “Well, that ends that.” No, it doesn\u2019t, because Facebook leaves open the possibility that there is proof that Trump did it.” That\u2019s on purpose, and they\u2019re never gonna take that away. That\u2019s gonna live throughout this year into the midterm elections. Senator Charles “Grassley Releases Strzok-Page Texts Showing FBI Was \u2018Pulling Punches<\/a>\u2019 In Clinton Probe —<\/p>\n

\"\"“In the text message flagged by Grassley, Page suggested that Strzok should not take an aggressive approach to Clinton [investigation] because of the strong possibility that she would be elected president. ‘One more thing: she might be our next president. The last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear.\u2019 Page said.” Meaning: You don\u2019t need to really be investigating her seriously, \u2019cause she\u2019s gonna get elected, and she\u2019s gonna remember us, and we don\u2019t want to be remembered as having caused her trouble.<\/p>\n

“‘You think she\u2019s going to remember or care that it was more doj than fbi?\u2019 [sic] Page wrote.” No. “‘[S]he\u2019s gonna remember us.\u2019 … Strzok said he agreed with that assessment. ‘I called Bill and relayed what we discussed. He agrees. I will email you and [redacted] same.\u2019 ‘Bill\u2019 is likely Bill Priestap, the FBI\u2019s chief of counterintelligence.” So the chief of counterintelligence — who was Strzok\u2019s immediate boss — was also concerned that Hillary might be angry with the FBI if they pursued the Hillary server investigation too aggressively.<\/p>\n

Everything we\u2019re learning here is that there was collusion up and down between the FBI, the DOJ and the Clinton campaign and Hillary herself from the top of the FBI down. And we know why now. It was to protect Obama. This is the point. This is the point. The FBI, the DOJ, it may look like that they were trying to protect Hillary — and they were; I\u2019m not denying that — and that it was about getting her elected.<\/p>\n

But, folks, even more important than that, they were protecting Obama, because Obama was complicit in this. Obama lied when he told people that he only learned about Hillary\u2019s server when you saw it when everybody else did on the news. When he was trafficking emails back and forth with her through that server, he knew it.<\/p>\n

He bald-faced lied to the American people in a press conference, or with reporters somewhere, about when he found out she was doing it. He knew it all along, and they were trafficking. There had to be classified stuff going back and forth because she\u2019s the secretary of state and he\u2019s the president. I guarantee you they\u2019re not emailing about Chelsea\u2019s wedding reception or where the hell she\u2019s registered for wedding presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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