{"id":272600,"date":"2018-05-01T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=272600"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:21:14","slug":"theories-leaked-mueller-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/01\/theories-leaked-mueller-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Theories: Who Leaked the Mueller Questions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So there is now a full list of questions, a big, big, big number of questions that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, wants to ask Donald Trump during a sit-down. James Comey at a paid book signing appearance last night said that he would want Trump to sit down with no time limit and that Trump ought to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking at some of these questions and I\u2019m wondering, &#8220;Where in the heck did this come from?&#8221; You know, I have grown so suspicious, I may have become too suspicious. But this, this just seems &#8212; like one of these questions &#8212; by the way, greetings. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh kicking off here another three hours of broadcast excellence. One of these questions actually &#8212; I\u2019m paraphrasing the question, but it\u2019s very close to this. &#8220;What did you think and what did you do when you heard that the special counsel was gonna be appointed to investigate you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/30\/us\/politics\/robert-mueller-questions-trump.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-272603 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Paper-Cutaway-NY-Times-050118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Paper-Cutaway-NY-Times-050118.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Paper-Cutaway-NY-Times-050118-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>Are you kidding me? That\u2019s actually reportedly a probative question.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think when you heard that I was gonna be hired to destroy you?<\/p>\n<p>What did you think when you found out that I was named by your own administration to come in and get you out of this town? What did you do? What did you think?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, everybody\u2019s trying to figure out where these questions came from, and the general assumption is that they\u2019re legitimate questions that Mueller has put together should there be an interview with Trump. And then the question becomes, &#8220;Well, who leaked these? Did Mueller leak these questions? And if Mueller leaked them, why? If Mueller didn\u2019t leak them, then who did? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/30\/us\/politics\/robert-mueller-questions-trump.html\">Who called up the New York Times<\/a> and said, &#8216;We got these questions\u2019?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These questions are also &#8212; I don\u2019t think they\u2019re verbatim. They are too general and overbroad, like this, &#8220;What did you think and do when you heard that a special counsel was going to be appointed to essentially nullify your &#8211;&#8221; I mean, that\u2019s really what the question is. What did you think, what did you do. And anybody would be a fool to start answering that. Anybody would be a fool to answer any of these questions. I\u2019ll go through what some of them are here in a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the best guess thinking is that this whole story has actually been leaked by the Trump team. And the primary reason for the leak is to try to convince the president to get rid of this silly idea that there\u2019s anything to gain by sitting down and talking to Mueller. Now, if that best guess is true, the New York Times says that leak comes from somebody outside Trump\u2019s legal team. Now, that\u2019s a very specific identification.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What efforts were made to reach out to Mr. Flynn about seeking immunity or possible pardon,&#8221; Mr. Mueller planned to ask. I\u2019m reading to you from the Times here. What efforts were made to reach tout to Mr. Flynn about seeking immunity or a possible pardon, Mr. Mueller plans to ask, according to questions read by the special counsel investigators to the president\u2019s lawyers, who then compiled the questions into a list. That document was provided to the New York Times by a person outside Mr. Trump\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050118-TRUMP-MUELLER-DC-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050118-TRUMP-MUELLER-DC-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050118-TRUMP-MUELLER-DC-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, I\u2019ve talked to the legal advisers here at the EIB Network and they think that that points to John Dowd, Trump\u2019s lawyer who recently quit. And John Dowd quit reportedly because he could not convince Trump what a mistake it would be to sit down and do the interview, and if Trump wasn\u2019t gonna listen to him he said, why am I here, so he resigned this particular Trump job and moved on. And the best legal minds I know think that this leak may track back to John Dowd because the Times says here &#8220;document provided to the Times by a person outside Mr. Trump\u2019s legal team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So that exonerates all the current lawyers on the team, but it opens up the possibility of former lawyers on the team. Now, there\u2019s many schools of thought on leaking this. One school of thought is that this list of questions will assist Trump in demonstrating to the American people that Mueller doesn\u2019t have anything, isn\u2019t close to getting anything, and is just really throwing every line he\u2019s got into the water and seeing if something bites.<\/p>\n<p>Another school of thought says, &#8220;No, no. Don\u2019t look at it that way. The way to look at this is that Mueller is not going away \u2019til he gets Trump. And everything is still wide open. Mueller is still looking at collusion. Mueller is still looking at obstruction. Mueller is looking at Trump\u2019s business before he became president. This is a bad sign for the president,&#8221; says this version, says this opinion of the leak. And Trump should take no comfort from this whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Other people say this is great. This is gonna show the American people what an overbroad fishing expedition this is. And if all of these questions remain unanswered, then what does Mueller have? And the conclusion would be Mueller doesn\u2019t have anything. We\u2019ve had Rod Rosenstein, who\u2019s publicly said that he\u2019s told Trump that Trump is not a target, parentheses, yet. That he\u2019s only a subject. But of course a subject can be converted to a target. These questions, some would say, are designed to make a subject become a target based on the way they are answered.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was out very quickly with tweets referring to the fact that this was evidence of a witch hunt, that there\u2019s no even acknowledgment of any crime in these questions, specifically collusion isn\u2019t mentioned, the president tweets, only possible obstruction. So it\u2019s still open-ended as to what all of this really means.<\/p>\n<p>One of the lawyers in the swamp that used to work for Mueller way-back-when in the \u201990s and has been one of the TV legal analysts defending Bill Clinton all during the Monica Lewinsky cycle is a guy named Michael Zeldin, and he\u2019s now a CNN legal analyst. Of course, who\u2019s not associated with CNN these days on the &#8220;get Trump&#8221; side of things? And he believes that Trump leaked these questions. He believes that Trump himself ordered the leak of these questions, and he thinks so because of the grammatical errors that are in the questions. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CNNZeldin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CNNZeldin.png 626w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CNNZeldin-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/>&#8220;I think these are notes.&#8221; This what Zeldin says. &#8220;I think these are notes taken by the recipients of a conversation with Mueller\u2019s office &#8211;&#8221; That\u2019d be Trump\u2019s lawyers. &#8220;&#8211; where Mueller outlined broad topics and Trump\u2019s lawyers wrote down questions that they thought these topics may raise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Zeldin thinks these are not really Mueller questions. That in the negotiations between Trump\u2019s lawyer and Mueller over a potential Trump sit-down, Mueller has given broad areas of his interests to the lawyer. &#8220;Yeah, like to ask Trump about X and I\u2019d like to ask Trump about Y,&#8221; and then Zeldin says that Trump\u2019s lawyers then went and created the questions based on the generic interests that were expressed by Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Because of the way these questions are written &#8212; lawyers wouldn\u2019t write questions this way in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper, so I don\u2019t see this as a list of written questions that Mueller\u2019s office gave to the president\u2019s lawyers. I think these are more notes that the White House has taken, and then they have expanded upon the conversation with Mueller to write out these questions and then leak them to the New York Times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, just so you know who Zeldin is, he &#8220;worked as special counsel to Mueller in the early 1990s, when he served as the assistant attorney general of the Justice Department\u2019s Criminal Division.&#8221; Want to hear some of these questions?\u00a0 One question directly asks Trump about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.\u00a0 &#8220;During the campaign, what did you know about Russian hacking, Russian use of social media, or other acts aimed at the campaign?&#8221;\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the questions.<\/p>\n<p>Another question:\u00a0 &#8220;What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?&#8221;\u00a0 Now, you can imagine that the Drive-Bys have zeroed in on that one because Manafort is now under indictment.\u00a0 So the Drive-Bys think that question means that Manafort\u2019s crimes are not specifically tied to things he did long before the Trump campaign, that this specific question links Manafort to the collusion.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re orgasming at CNN today because of this particular question.\u00a0 Again, &#8220;What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/04\/30\/this-is-what-robert-mueller-plans-to-ask-trump\/\">Now, it says here at the New York Post<\/a>, &#8220;It\u2019s not clear whether Mueller has evidence that Manafort or any other Trump official coordinated with Russia.\u00a0 Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion.&#8221;\u00a0 Concerning James Comey, Mueller wants to know about the times Trump met privately with him and why he fired him.<\/p>\n<p>Why he fired Comey?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-272268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/410-Comey-Makeup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/410-Comey-Makeup.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/410-Comey-Makeup-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Now, Trump is perfectly within his constitutional rights to fire Comey, and he doesn\u2019t have to offer anybody an excuse or a reason.\u00a0 He can fire Comey \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t like how tall he is.\u00a0 He can fire Comey \u2019cause his hands are too big.\u00a0 He can fire Comey \u2019cause he thinks Comey\u2019s ties are too short.\u00a0 He can fire Comey for anything. But Mueller wants to know why he did it, and if the question\u2019s legit, then this is an entrapment question about trying to get Trump to open up about what he really thinks of Comey, why he got rid of him, and thereby spell out what Trump was really trying to do is hide things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was afraid Comey was gonna&#8230;&#8221; I can predict what the purpose of these questions is, but I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s something about this that\u2019s still&#8230; It\u2019s a trap, obviously, but some of this just does not meet the smell test to me, and I can\u2019t specify for you right now what it is.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve noticed how everybody is not even questioning whether Mueller actually is the source of these questions or the information that became these questions.\u00a0 They\u2019re just running with it.\u00a0 It was in the New York Times.\u00a0 Everybody\u2019s treating this as factual.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s no question this is real; there\u2019s no question it\u2019s serious.&#8221;\u00a0 It just all seems&#8230; You know when everybody gets on a bandwagon, when everyone starts signing up to the identical conventional wisdom, that\u2019s when my radar goes up. Red flags.\u00a0 Something about this &#8212; and I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t specify it.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even specify what it is about this that bothers me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m&#8230; It could be the whole thing, half legitimate, half fake.\u00a0 Don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve just never seen anything like this.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had special counsels and independent counsels my whole life, and I have never, ever seen anything like this happen during any of these investigations.\u00a0 I have never seen this kind of detailed, in-depth uncovering of what the special counsel is thinking, doing, wants to know, these kinds of things. It\u2019s just that you never see it, and here pretty much everything that Mueller could possibly be interested in has shown up now in the New York Times.\u00a0 And Trump is tweeting about it almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the Trump team did find a way to get this out. Because, in their view, it probably (they think) helps their circumstance, if their circumstance is to keep Trump from talking to Mueller.\u00a0 That\u2019d be the biggest mistake Trump could make during all of this is to sit down and have that conversation.\u00a0 And if we\u2019re to believe the reporting, the reporting is that everybody on Trump\u2019s team is telling him not to do it and he\u2019s ignoring everybody and is hell-bent on doing it.<\/p>\n<p>And so this is a Hail Mary attempt to try to get Trump to realize the suicide pact he would be signing if he sat down and started taking these questions and trying to answer them.\u00a0 And of all of the possibilities, that seems to me to be the one that makes the most sense.\u00a0 But I still have something gnawing at me that this is not really what it is.\u00a0 And, you know, I probably shouldn\u2019t say that because I\u2019m not prepared to tell you what I think it is.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just sharing with you a gut reaction that something here is not adding up, doesn\u2019t make sense. The Drive-Bys are too happy about it.\u00a0 And we know how much literal garbage and drivel has shown up in the New York Times during the entire course of this investigation, and we know how much has shown up that has no basis in fact whatsoever. No truth, no facts whatsoever.\u00a0 So now we\u2019re told all of a sudden somebody got hold of everything Mueller wants to know about?<\/p>\n<p>Everybody got hold of it, somebody did, and here it is, and now we know everything Mueller\u2019s scope of interest entails?\u00a0 &#8220;Mueller also reportedly wants to ask Trump about his statements about Comey and Andrew McCabe.\u00a0 &#8216;What is the reason for your continued criticism of Mr. Comey and his former deputy, Andrew McCabe?\u2019 one question&#8230;&#8221; Are you kidding?\u00a0 This is actually something Mueller wants to know: Why are you continuing to criticize Comey?<\/p>\n<p>Would somebody tell me where are the legal boundaries in that? Is Trump doing something illegal by criticizing Comey?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 If this is real, it means that Mueller believes if he asks this question, that Trump is gonna start on a diatribe of hatred and whatever he thinks about Comey and McCabe, and is eventually going to implicate himself.\u00a0 But this doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u00a0 Neither does, &#8220;What did you think when you found out I was gonna be hired to pursue you?\u00a0 What did you think and what did you do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why do you keep criticizing Comey?<\/p>\n<p>Why do you keep saying mean things about my buddy?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 I have the entire list of questions here, and I\u2019m not gonna go through all of them. But many of them do deal with asking the president what he thought, what he thinks, why he continues to say and why he continues to think various things. &#8220;What was your reaction to Comey when you met alone regarding the Steele dossier? What was your reaction to Comey? What was discussed regarding ancillary reports?&#8221;\u00a0 This is an attempt to get Trump.\u00a0 I mean, these questions are just&#8230; They\u2019re questions for a sap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041618-Trump-Comey-Shake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041618-Trump-Comey-Shake.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041618-Trump-Comey-Shake-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I mean, nobody in their right mind would ever try, even if this was just a reporter doing a news story. Forget that this is a lawyer that could put you in jail for lying to him by simply forgetting.\u00a0 &#8216;Cause once Trump sits down for this and Mueller starts asking these questions, he\u2019s gonna ask for another sit and he\u2019s gonna ask the questions all over again. He\u2019s gonna start comparing Trump\u2019s answers. That\u2019s where you get a process crime of lying to investigators, if Trump forgets what he said to Mueller the first time and says a different version the second time the question comes around.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Andy McCarthy thinks and has written this in the past. He thinks that what all of this indicates is that Mueller &#8220;is preparing to write a comprehensive report in which he answers all questions about Russia and defends the law enforcement and intelligence services by saying even though there may have been some investigative irregularities, that the main problem here was Trump\u2019s poor judgment. Which will then give Mueller leeway to weigh in on matters of Trump\u2019s decision-making that have nothing to do with whether Trump is guilty of crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s basically Andy thinks that what Mueller is setting up here is a very extensive report essentially asserting that Donald Trump is a disaster when it comes to presidential judgment and qualifications and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>That would be absent any hard finding of criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 So I checked the email during the break.\u00a0 Somebody wants to know if there are any circumstances under which I would suggest to President Trump that he go ahead and sit down for an interview with Mueller.\u00a0 And, yeah, I can think of some things that if I were Trump\u2019s lawyers I would demand.\u00a0 I would demand to testify but not under oath, like Mrs. Clinton. I would demand an exoneration letter before I sat down like Comey gave Hillary. And then I would demand an exoneration letter after the interview.<\/p>\n<p>And then I would demand that a bunch of my assistants and aides be allowed to sit in on the interview. And I want to be able to call them lawyers so that I have attorney-client privilege with them so that nothing can happen to them.\u00a0 And then I want it stipulated at the end of the interview &#8212; like it was with James Comey and Hillary Clinton &#8212; that whatever went on here, there\u2019s nothing to it \u2019cause I didn\u2019t intend to do anything wrong.\u00a0 If Trump could secure the same identical circumstances that were granted to Hillary Clinton, then why not sit down for the interview and answer the questions?<\/p>\n<p>But of course, I speak facetiously because everybody knows that Donald Trump is not gonna get the Hillary Clinton treatment extended by James Comey.\u00a0 And can you imagine if he did? Can you imagine the American left and the media if Trump got the same treatment Hillary did?\u00a0 &#8220;Okay.\u00a0 Mr. President, we\u2019re not gonna have you under oath.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna interview you, by the way, two days before we issue our report.&#8221;\u00a0 That\u2019s another thing.\u00a0 &#8220;We\u2019re gonna issue our report on Monday, and we\u2019re gonna interview you on Saturday, and only for three hours.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-261902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/RushQuestion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/RushQuestion.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/RushQuestion-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>We\u2019re gonna give you an exoneration letter before the interview begins.\u00a0 Anybody you want in the meeting with you we\u2019re gonna call an attorney so you have attorney-client privilege.\u00a0 When the interview is over, we\u2019re gonna issue another exoneration letter, and then we\u2019re gonna say that whatever you did is not prosecutable or actionable because we couldn\u2019t find that you intended to do any of it.\u00a0 Can you imagine&#8230;? (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>If Trump were afforded or extended all of those privileges, as Hillary was, can you imagine what CNN and the Drive-By Media would do with it?\u00a0 Let me just give you a couple more examples of questions here and even though we\u2019ll move on to other things.\u00a0 If you want to weigh in on this, feel free. Have at it when we get to the phones.\u00a0 There are four here at the very tail end of this list. I don\u2019t know if these questions, as I have them, are in any chronological order or not, but they are the last four.\u00a0 &#8220;What knowledge did you have of any outreach by members or former members of your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Note:\u00a0 Specifically mentioned Paul Manafort.&#8221;\u00a0 I think so that one previously.\u00a0 And the reason that everybody\u2019s harping on this is that heretofore Manafort\u2019s indictment and the allegations against Manafort have to go to do with the campaign.\u00a0 Manafort\u2019s under indictment for having engaged in supposed criminal activity back in, oh, prior to 2015, 2016.\u00a0 Now that Mueller wants to ask Trump about using Manafort to reach out to the Russians? Well!\u00a0 &#8220;What did you know about communication between Roger Stone, persons associated with Roger Stone, Julian Assange or WikiLeaks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These questions come right out of the media, folks.\u00a0 Try this one: &#8220;What knowledge did you know during the transition about an attempt to establish back-channel communications to Russia, and efforts by Jared Kushner regarding the same?&#8221;\u00a0 Now, folks, there wasn\u2019t any attempt to establish back-channel communications.\u00a0 If Trump had colluded, there already would have been back-channel communications!\u00a0 If Trump is Russia colluded to steal the election, they would have already had numerous back-channel communications.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-240823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-071217-Natalia-Veselnitskaya-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-071217-Natalia-Veselnitskaya-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/650-071217-Natalia-Veselnitskaya-1-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>And this is a question about Jared Kushner trying to establish one during the transition, which is after the election?\u00a0 This is straight out of the New York Times and CNN.\u00a0 If this is legit, this is Mueller reading the news and coming up with questions about what appears in the news.\u00a0 Now, Mueller may have leaked a bunch of that stuff, his office.\u00a0 But this is all about the honey pot Russian lawyer, Veselnitskaya, who came into Trump Tower supposedly with dirt on Hillary.<\/p>\n<p>Jared was in there with Don Jr., and when they found out this woman didn\u2019t have any dirt on Hillary &#8212; that it was a scam to get her in there and talk about some piece of legislation &#8212; they all left the meeting.\u00a0 But news media reports had this meeting established as Jared wanting to set up a back-channel communication with the Russians, which is absurd if there was any collusion to begin with.\u00a0 &#8220;What do you know about a 2017 meeting in Seychelles [France] involving Erik Prince&#8221; of Blackwater? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you know about a Ukrainian peace proposal provided to Mr. [Michael] Cohen in 2017?&#8221;\u00a0 Straight out of the news media.\u00a0 But these questions are huge, gigantic traps.\u00a0 Because if Mueller\u2019s asking \u2019em, none of \u2019em are illegitimate. No matter how extraneous, off topic, off subject they appear to be, they are, at the very least they are traps to ensnare people in process crimes.\u00a0 And they go way beyond any original reason for Mueller being hired to begin this work, the so-called collusion and so forth.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll see how it unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>I still&#8230; I do agree with the idea that the leak may have come from a former Trump lawyer not currently on the legal team, the express purpose here being to advise, shock, really suggest to the president that this is a dumb idea to sit down and talk to this guy. &#8220;No matter how much you think of yourself, no matter how good you think you are at dazzling people, that\u2019s not what this is about, and you can\u2019t change the way Mueller is thinking with the force of your personality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know, I\u2019ve equated this to an educational moment for me when I first started this program.\u00a0 When I first started, I had no experience being interviewed by the media.\u00a0 Maybe a little in Sacramento, but it was nothing that was truly intended to be injurious to me.\u00a0 So I had no experience with it.\u00a0 And when the show begins and it takes off&#8230; I mean, in the first six months to a year, we\u2019re just adding stations left and right, and it is&#8230; I mean, everybody\u2019s talking about it. It\u2019s the biggest news in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The media\u2019s calling.\u00a0 I remember a particular interview in Los Angeles, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times who wanted to talk to me before I had a Rush to Excellence appearance out there, and I made the silly mistake. It was an honest mistake; I didn\u2019t know any better. I made the silly mistake of assuming this reporter really wanted to know who I was, really wanted to know why my program was succeeding, and really wanted to know what I thought about things.\u00a0 And this reporter could not have cared less.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-266440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RIH-Combat-Drive-By-Media.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RIH-Combat-Drive-By-Media.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RIH-Combat-Drive-By-Media-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/>The reporter had already made up her mind about me, and it was not good.\u00a0 Her story was already written, and there was nothing I could do, nothing I could have done that would have changed her mind.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know that.\u00a0 I really&#8230; I was so stupid and naive, I thought these people were genuinely interested in something that was brand-new, that nobody could explain, that didn\u2019t exist before, and they wanted to try to understand where it was happening.\u00a0 That was not at all what she was interested in.<\/p>\n<p>Her purpose was to marginalize me and categorize me as an extremist radical on the right and that my audience was a bunch of hayseed, hick kooks and all.\u00a0 And every other story about this.\u00a0 I learned that the last thing any of these media interviews was really about was the reporter learning anything or becoming informed.\u00a0 It was not because they were genuinely curious.\u00a0 They were resentful, and I and my program were something they had to try to damage.\u00a0 And that\u2019s exactly what Mueller would be doing in a sit-down with Trump.\u00a0 Mueller\u2019s not interested in Trump\u2019s version of the truth.\u00a0 Mueller thinks he already knows it.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller doesn\u2019t care what Trump\u2019s successes are.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t care about any of that.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing Trump could do to change Mueller\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Mueller thinks now, there\u2019s nothing Trump could do to change his mind, because this whole process is about damaging Trump. And anything Trump might say, any information Trump might have that would change Mueller\u2019s mind, Mueller isn\u2019t gonna hear. He\u2019s not gonna react to it. It\u2019s not the purpose of a sit-down. Mueller doesn\u2019t want to talk to Trump to learn anything. Mueller doesn\u2019t want to talk to Trump to get Trump\u2019s side of things. Mueller doesn\u2019t want to talk to Trump to actually find out what Trump\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is nothing more than Mueller using his power as special counsel and lawyer to use Trump\u2019s own participation in getting Trump to commit a crime, to admit to one or to commit one while he\u2019s talking to Mueller. That\u2019s all this is. You ever heard of any independent or special counsel, at the end of his investigation, writing a report saying, &#8220;After two years of exhaustive investigation and study, we have found nobody who did anything wrong&#8221;? Do you ever remember that?<\/p>\n<p>No, because it hasn\u2019t happened. After two years or however long it\u2019s gonna be and however many lawyers he\u2019s got helping him, after however much money, the last thing that\u2019s gonna happen is anybody get exonerated here.<\/p>\n<p>This is all designed to wake Trump up and say, &#8220;Look, pal. Forget who you are, forget who you dazzle. You can\u2019t dazzle the guy. You can\u2019t make him believe your version of things. Their minds are already made up. You\u2019re not qualified to be president. He shouldn\u2019t have won, and their purpose is to get rid of you. And if you help them, then their job\u2019s gonna be easier. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re looking for you to do. They\u2019re looking for you, Mr. President, to help them get rid of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041818-Trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041818-Trump.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041818-Trump-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Okay. Now, to the theory that these questions have been leaked by a former Trump lawyer in order to try to convince President Trump not to talk to Mueller, why would they have to leak the questions for Trump to see them? Why couldn\u2019t Trump\u2019s lawyers show him the questions, say, &#8220;Man, you do not want to have any part of this. 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