RUSH: What I would say to you is don\u2019t get distracted. The real scandal here is not Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. That\u2019s not the scandal. The real scandal is and remains Barack Obama spying on the Trump campaign. Barack Obama collecting data on Mitt Romney. Barack Obama spying on domestic enemies of his Iran deal using the American intelligence community to do so. That remains the real scandal, not Zuckerberg, not Facebook, not Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n
The scandal isn\u2019t selling data consumers have willingly given to advertisers. That\u2019s not what the scandal is. The scandal is the government choosing sides and misusing information it should not have. The scandal is illegal surveillance. The Mueller investigation is essentially a cover-up of all that Hillary and Obama did during the campaign to spy on Trump and to try to engineer a Hillary win so as to get essentially a Barack Obama third term.<\/p>\n
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Robert Mueller is a perfect example of how all this works. He\u2019s unaccountable. He\u2019s working for the Democrats. He has access to anything he wants. He has access to whatever money he needs to go get whatever he wants. And he can use it any way he wants, including creating new crimes to charge people with. Andy McCarthy\u2019s piece on Saturday in National Review Online makes the point of how Mueller is doing that, all the while being able to protect favored politicians.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Moments ago, breaking news, breaking news! There was a Senate Intelligence Committee press conference. The chairman, Senator Richard Burr (Republican-North Carolina), had this to say about his committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee\u2019s Russia investigation. Listen carefully…<\/p>\n
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BURR: We\u2019re now at a point that we have wrapped up one piece of our investigation, which deals with election security. Let me say this with a great deal of confidence: It is clear the Russian government was looking for the vulnerabilities in our election system and highlighted some of the key gaps. There\u2019s no evidence that any vote was changed.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There you have it. We could have told you that before spending all the money and time investigating. “No evidence a single vote was changed.” Inspector Mueller, Special Counsel Mueller, did you hear that? Now, what\u2019s little Adam Schiff gonna do? He\u2019s not on the Senate committee. He\u2019s in the House committee. Not a single vote was changed. Not a single vote. There is no evidence that a single vote was changed.<\/p>\n
Well, what the hell was this all about, then?<\/p>\n
It was all about finding out how Putin worked with Trump to steal the election.<\/p>\n
The only way you can steal an election is have control over the votes.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Time to go to the phones. I have concluded here with my diarrhea-of-the-mouth monologue of the first hour. This is Vinny. Ha! It\u2019s Vinny in Long Island. Vinny, you\u2019re traveling all over the great Northeast. How are you doing today in Long Island?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Doing great, Rush. Listening to you as always.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, thank you. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Don\u2019t know where to start but I\u2019ll just start and Robert Mueller should have been fired a long time ago. Really, I say, “Enough already. Throw caution to the wind here,” because it just doesn\u2019t matter anyway. Trump has done nothing. But Mueller has and we\u2019ll say otherwise. This entire special counsel episode has been really — in my opinion, anyway — to paralyze the GOP Congress, not necessarily the president because he\u2019s about the only one moving along on his agenda.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know what?<\/p>\n
CALLER: He has had —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Vinny, hang on. That is a very shrewd and crucial point, and there\u2019s another thing that the Republicans are relying on now to slow down and stall the Trump agenda, and that\u2019s Stormy Daniels. We\u2019re almost back to where we were in the first year, where the Republicans said, “My gosh! If this guy is actually gonna be gone because of this Russian collusion stuff, we don\u2019t want to get too tied to him,” and so they held back because they really thought that this has happened and that Trump was gonna eventually get caught and be sent packing. Now they\u2019ve got… From what I\u2019m told, they have the same fears over this Stormy Daniels stuff, that something\u2019s gonna come out of this that\u2019s gonna prove highly embarrassing and present real trouble for Trump continuing. But the point is, they\u2019ll latch on to anything to slow down.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I agree with you a hundred percent. Unfortunately, when the media gets a hold of whatever Mueller says or does — you know, as much as we may or may not want to admit it — it adds legitimacy to it. There are too many people out there that still listen to the mainstream media and are going to follow suit. You and I know better and people like us know better, but, you know, we\u2019re getting our own drip, drip, drip of waterboarding here every day.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Vinny, what are you really saying here? You want Trump to fire Mueller as a way to end this \u2019cause that\u2019s…?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. ‘Cause it… Yes, a hundred percent, because it doesn\u2019t matter. We\u2019re getting hurt by this anyway, so get rid of him. Suffer the slings and arrows for the next week or so that the media\u2019s gonna throw at you, have a closed-door meeting with the Republicans, lock the door and say, “Hey, guess what? I\u2019m the president, and this is it, and if you guys want to be in the majority in 2019, you better get in lockstep with me, because it\u2019s just you and us against the media and against the deep state.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: What about Lindsey Graham today?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Who cares!<\/p>\n
RUSH: He was on the air with Hugh Hewitt, and he was asked if Trump should be impeached if he fires Mueller, and Lindsey Graham said (summarized), “Hell, yes, if he does it without cause.”<\/p>\n
CALLER: I don\u2019t care about Lindsey Graham. He\u2019s a back-bencher in my opinion. Okay? He\u2019s a John McCain acolyte as we all know, and I don\u2019t really care what he says.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, but the point is it goes to your point about getting the Republicans in the room and Trump trying to get them all aligned behind him. If he fires Mueller, you know there\u2019s gonna be some — like Flake and the rest of these guys — who are gonna flake off and they\u2019re gonna join the Democrats in these demands that Trump be impeached or forced to resign or whatever the hell they would try to pull off.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think they do that periodically depending on what scandal Mueller brings to the forefront. I mean, we\u2019ve seen this before, and then they\u2019ll gravitate back and maybe they\u2019ll get behind Trump for a little while. I just think this is hurting us. It\u2019s demoralizing us — and, you know, it even demoralizes people like me who know better. Still, it\u2019s disheartening to get up every morning and listen to what Robert Mueller has now conjectured (sic) up. And I mean you just blew the lid off this yesterday for me when you said he\u2019s now making up charges, which is incomprehensible to me.<\/p>\n