{"id":267363,"date":"2018-03-13T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=267363"},"modified":"2018-03-14T23:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T03:31:34","slug":"show-us-your-evidence-pencil-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/03\/13\/show-us-your-evidence-pencil-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Us Your Evidence, Pencil Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Democrats have a golden opportunity. Pencil Neck has a golden opportunity. The House Intelligence Committee… The Republicans run the committee; Devin Nunes is the chairman. They announce as a committee — with the Democrats dissenting, but they announce — that the committee is closing its investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion story because after 73 witnesses and 300,000 hours, pages, whatever the hell else, they haven\u2019t got a shred of evidence.<\/p>\n

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Do you realize what a golden opportunity this is for Pencil Neck? (interruption) Why you shaking your head? All he\u2019s gotta do is find one shred of evidence, and he\u2019s blown them all out of the water! This with the Republican committee, the chairman making it official. They have shut down the investigation; it\u2019s over because there\u2019s nothing. They\u2019ve interviewed 73 people. They\u2019ve had this many hours, all this. They have failed to unearth a shred of evidence. Now, let me put this in perspective.<\/p>\n

Despite a year of daily, numerous stories with anonymous sources from the intelligence community — foreign and domestic, deep state. Every day, the New York Times had one. Every day, the Washington Post had one. Every day, CNN talked about their own and in the newspaper, for a year! For an entire year. Remember all of the stories that led readers to believe that there had been collusion, despite a secret line in every story, “To date, no evidence has been found, but experts say it\u2019s only a matter of time” or what have you.<\/p>\n

So here comes Devin Nunes and the House Republicans shutting down the investigation, claiming. “There\u2019s no reason to keep looking. We haven\u2019t found anything.” All the Democrats have to do is find one bit of evidence. Do you realize the major political win and victory that could be? And yet they can\u2019t! They can\u2019t find a morsel. They can\u2019t find anything. Now, despite what you may think, the House Intelligence Committee does not have trousers and the time that, say, Mueller has.<\/p>\n

“What do you mean, Rush? The House committee\u2019s big and Mueller\u2019s only got 16…” Yeah, but Mueller\u2019s got an unlimited about that be budget, and that\u2019s all he\u2019s doing. The House Intelligence Committee works at the same time other committees are working and the House is in order. It\u2019s not the only thing that the House of Representatives is doing, but Mueller isn\u2019t gonna find anything anyway. In fact… Let me see if I have this on top here. What Mueller has announced… Yeah. Get this. “Mueller Weighs Putting off Trump Obstruction Decision<\/a> —<\/p>\n

“Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice is said to be close to completion, but he may set it aside while he finishes other key parts of his probe, such as possible collusion and the hacking of Democrats…” Now, why do we know this? How do we know? It means… (interruption) Yes, Mueller\u2019s team leaking. Hell, it may be Mueller himself for all we know. But Mueller\u2019s team is leaking. It\u2019s the only way that… Bloomberg is reporting.<\/p>\n

The only way Bloomberg would know this is if somebody on the Mueller team told them, “You know what? Uh, we\u2019re gonna set this aside. We\u2019re gonna set the obstruction investigation aside and we\u2019re gonna finish on the collusion business.” So what do they think they\u2019re gonna gain by putting this out? They\u2019re leaking this. They\u2019re leaking that they\u2019re going to set aside — they\u2019re gonna put off, they\u2019re gonna delay — the obstruction decision. Remember, that\u2019s the fallback to Russian collusion. If they can\u2019t find anything on collusion, then they\u2019re gonna go get Trump on obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n

So this is the fallback.<\/p>\n

So why announce this?<\/p>\n

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What is there to gain by leaking that they\u2019re gonna delay the obstruction decision? My guess is… Well, look. What the story says here is, “Mueller may calculate that if he tries to bring charges in the obstruction case … witnesses may become less cooperative in other parts of the probe, or the president may move to shut it down altogether.” So they\u2019re leaking that they\u2019re doing this because if they bring charges now and it hits very close to Trump personally, then witnesses are gonna become less cooperative.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re doing this, according to the leaking, to make sure the witnesses don\u2019t panic and to make sure the witnesses don\u2019t flee the scene, to make sure the witnesses don\u2019t start making changes in what they would otherwise say. Now, this is awfully suspicious. I think one of the reasons you put it off is it\u2019s an election year! You bring it back around, say, September\/October. That\u2019s why you put it off! You put it off now so you can revive it in September\/October!<\/p>\n

Everybody in Washington has their eggs in one basket now, folks, and that\u2019s impeaching Trump! So the eggs in one basket are really about the Democrats taking control of the House in the November elections. That is what is on the plate. That is what the agenda is. And I think in service to that, they leak that they\u2019re going to delay the obstruction charges while they continue to probe on collusion. But the problem is, there isn\u2019t a crime that anybody has found here.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t a crime that Mueller was charged with investigating. They\u2019ve got nothing. Nobody has anything, particularly on Trump, and I think Devin Nunes and the House Republican\u2019s decision to shut down their investigation… I find it fascinating, because on one hand, it\u2019s a huge roll of the dice. On the other hand, it\u2019s pure common sense, and it makes all the sense in the world to boot because there isn\u2019t any and it\u2019s time to end this charade. It\u2019s time to throw down this fa\u00e7ade!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to get rid of this dog-and-pony show and get back to reality, which is what the House Intelligence Committee is doing. My point is, what a golden opportunity for Pencil Neck here. Pencil Neck\u2019s been running around telling everybody that they\u2019re close, right? He\u2019s been running around for years saying, “We\u2019re on the verge! We don\u2019t have any evidence yet, but that\u2019s because witnesses aren\u2019t cooperating. That\u2019s because we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re hearing. We don\u2019t know what\u2019s true or not. We need continue our investigation,” all this slap-happy gobbledygook. But what a golden political opportunity for Schiff!<\/p>\n

Because now the Republicans are on record as saying, “There isn\u2019t any evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, period.” So, Pencil Neck, find some — and if you find it, you own it. If you can find if and it\u2019s provable and it\u2019s incontrovertible, then you guys are gonna win everything. I think, in fact, it\u2019s almost incumbent on Pencil Neck to now go find some. Since the House Republicans have officially proclaimed there isn\u2019t any to be found. There isn\u2019t any. I\u2019m sure Pencil Neck\u2019s having heart palpitations.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s probably going through a mixture of emotions about this, \u2019cause it could go one of two ways. It could totally shut him down and expose him for the fraud that he and the Democrats are, and he\u2019s got that to worry about. On the other hand, he\u2019s gotta be salivating over this piece of evidence that has to be there because everybody knows that Trump cheated; everybody knows that Trump colluded with Russia. Except they don\u2019t know it because it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

So I wonder now. How many of these people actually do believe it, versus when it began they knew it was a trick, they knew it was a ruse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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