{"id":265559,"date":"2018-02-23T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=265559"},"modified":"2018-02-26T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T20:54:06","slug":"mueller-marches-toward-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/02\/23\/mueller-marches-toward-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller Marches Toward Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I checked the email during the break. An interesting question: “Rush, you haven\u2019t talked about the second indictments that have been handed down against Paul Manafort,” and I\u2019m paraphrasing the email. The question basically is these things still have nothing to do with even the campaign. Everything Manafort\u2019s being indicted for happened before the campaign, and then a letter writer very astutely mentioned that Mueller is changing the venue from Washington, D.C., to the Eastern District of Virginia, which is where Manafort lives.<\/p>\n

\"\"While that is an interesting aspect of this, the email says, “What is going on?” Folks, let me just remind you again. I\u2019ve kind of been on this high horse for the past two or three days, but nothing has changed. Just because it\u2019s not in the news every day because it has not been the focus of the Drive-By Media each and every day, the Mueller investigation remains with one purpose, and that is to destroy — get rid of — Donald Trump. However they can manage it, that\u2019s the purpose, and no matter what is reported day in and day out about the progress, that objective has not changed.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been any laziness that has swept in. There hasn\u2019t been any loss of emotion or energy on the part of the prosecutors, investigators. The objective is still to get rid of Donald Trump, and the mechanism for doing this — their best bet — is for the Democrats to win the \u201918 midterms in the House and then impeach Trump with whatever case and evidence is presented by Mueller. That hasn\u2019t changed. The focus of the investigation hasn\u2019t changed. The investigation is not looking at Hillary Clinton. It\u2019s not looking at Fusion GPS.<\/p>\n

There has been ample opportunity to indict or charge Hillary Clinton. These people have had two or three chances since 2016, and they pass every one of them. I get email from people that suggest, “You know, Rush, I think you\u2019re missing the point here. I think Mueller\u2019s being very crafty. I think Mueller is actually building a case against Hillary and is gonna be shocking everybody when she and Steele end up being indicted,” and that\u2019s a wonderful wish list.<\/p>\n

But, my friends, I honestly have to chuckle, because Hillary\u2019s been exonerated. It happened on July 5th, 2016. She been exonerated on her email stuff by order of Barack Obama. When Obama publicly says, as he did, “She didn\u2019t do anything wrong! She didn\u2019t intend to do anything wrong and she didn\u2019t do anything wrong,” Obama was ordering his minions in the media to let her go. They\u2019ve had I don\u2019t know how many opportunities to lower the boom on her, and to think that there\u2019s some secret element of the investigation where that\u2019s gonna happen?<\/p>\n

\"\"Sadly, it\u2019s wishful thinking. What is happening? Why the additional indictments on Manafort, and why now the guilty plea from Rick Gates? Well I, of course, don\u2019t know. But using my intelligence guided by experience — coupled my unwavering opinion of what this whole objective is — I think that Mueller is doing everything he can to pressure Manafort into saying that he either saw collusion or saw obstruction. Mueller needs a witness. To date, there has been no leak confirming any evidence of collusion exists because it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

But if enough pressure can be applied as it was to Flynn, if enough pressure can be… Manafort, with these two indictments, is facing the rest of his life in jail. These indictments now are serious. The first indictments were not swept away. They were added on to. But now we\u2019ve got money laundering. Now we\u2019ve got tax avoidance, multiple counts. Thirty-two counts, I think, in this latest indictment. And if he\u2019s convicted on all of them, he can say good-bye to any quality of life ever. And this is pressure designed to get Manafort to say what Mueller wants to hear. “Rush! Rush, doesn\u2019t what Manafort says have to be true?”<\/p>\n

Well, you would think. But in something like this, believe me, it can be structured. I\u2019m just trying to tell you that the objective here hasn\u2019t changed, and just because you don\u2019t see as much news coverage on it, it doesn\u2019t mean that the investigation\u2019s petering out. It doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s about to end \u2019cause they\u2019ve looked everywhere they can and haven\u2019t found anything. The objective is to get rid of Donald Trump. It has not changed and it will not change.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Rick Gates, the so-called former Trump campaign aide, who has been indicted along with Paul Manafort, has decided to plead guilty. And he sent his family a big, long letter explaining why. The letter has been publicized, and he essentially says that public humiliation is a small price to pay for family angst and disaster. Here is the letter that was so-called “obtained” by ABC News. Rick Gates is 45 years old. You never heard of him until this happened. He was a minor bit player. I\u2019m not saying that he and Manafort are innocent.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t understand. I have no way of knowing. All I know is the things that they\u2019re accused of doing have nothing to with the Trump campaign. They all happened before Trump even decided to run for the presidency. All I know is that Trump is the target. He\u2019s always been the target. He remains the target. There is no other target. Trump is it. A good friend sent a note, “Rush, you gotta know they\u2019ve gotta have the dirt on so many Democrats here.<\/p>\n

“You look Christopher Steele. You look at Hillary and Debbie ‘Blabbermouth\u2019 Schultz and all the stuff that went on the DNC, and then you\u2019ve got the Podestas and so forth.” I will be shocked if a single Democrat is ever discovered to be investigated in this investigation. I will be shocked. I guess it may be. It may be that some obscure, low-level Democrat somewhere might get indicted for something in this so that the investigation can demonstrate its bipartisan nature. But anyway, here\u2019s Gates\u2019 letter to his family.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of it. He\u2019s 45 years old. His family\u2019s young. He wrote to family and friends “despite my initial desire to vigorously defend myself, I have had a change of heart. … The reality of how long this legal process will likely take, the cost, and the circus-like atmosphere of an anticipated trial are too much. I will better serve my family moving forward by exiting this process.” It\u2019s essentially the same thing Michael Flynn did. Gates will run out of money. His children\u2019s future will run out of money.<\/p>\n

He will not be able to continue his defense if he decided to go down that path, and so the lesser of two options is to take the plea, go to jail, suffer the humiliation. But have a day down the road where he gets out of jail, still has some semblance of a financial base with which to perhaps begin to rebuild a life. But in this case, and particularly Manafort — just to repeat — the objective here is to get these guys to flip. It\u2019s called “flipping,” and they\u2019re really being pressured. Manafort is really being pressured.<\/p>\n

\"\"The indictments against Manafort, he would spend the rest of his life in jail — and this is white-collar crime. It\u2019s bank fraud, it\u2019s tax fraud, it\u2019s money laundering. It\u2019s all kinds of really bad stuff for which sentencing guidelines, 32 different counts in this indictment, he could figuratively… I mean, literally spend the rest of his life in jail. That\u2019s on one hand. On the other hand, here\u2019s Mueller and his investigators saying (paraphrased), “But, you know, it doesn\u2019t have to be that way, Paul.” It has to be always be “Paul.” It wouldn\u2019t be “Mr. Manafort.”<\/p>\n

They become friends, kind of like the Stockholm Syndrome with a kidnapping victim. “It doesn\u2019t have to be this way, Paul. You just have to unburden yourself. You just have to tell us what you and I already know, Paul. You just have to confirm to us that the campaign was working with Russia. You just have to say it,” or alternatively, “Paul, you just have to tell us what you know about how the president was trying to shut us down, obstruct justice.” Mueller needs a witness, \u2019cause there isn\u2019t any evidence.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m gonna have to ask people more informed than I, and you might find even the question kind of problematic. I\u2019m sitting here asking myself: Can the special counsel pressure an accused, here in the case of Manafort? Could they pressure him to lie and say he saw something he didn\u2019t see, and then would they accept it knowing that he\u2019s lied? Now, I know the boilerplate answer, “How could you even assume such a thing about our legal justice system, Mr. Limbaugh?”<\/p>\n

“Of course there isn\u2019t a prosecutor in the world that would take false evidence and try to pass it off as real!” I used to think that. I used to. I used to instinctively believe that. But I know that this is a political counterterrorism investigation that\u2019s being made to look like a criminal investigation, and I have learned that it is perfectly fine for prosecutors and cops to lie to suspects in pursuit of a confession.<\/p>\n

So they desperately want Trump, and they have who knows? Endless amounts of money and the full force power and pressure of the massive federal government behind them. And what\u2019s telling is that there isn\u2019t any evidence yet. There won\u2019t be any real evidence \u2019cause Trump didn\u2019t collude. That all happened on the Democrat side. That\u2019s what nation doubly outrageous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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