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RUSH: Wait. Now, wait.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — he wouldn\u2019t answer such a stupid question.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let\u2019s remember who and what we\u2019re dealing with here. In the first place, it has been reported that these are not actual questions written by Mueller.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, then I could go along with that maybe, but even so it doesn\u2019t make sense. Some of the questions that you\u2019ve read later in the show here, okay, maybe he would ask those, but some of them, it just doesn\u2019t seem professional at all. So it seems like somebody wrote these up and whatever —<\/p>\n
RUSH: They did. They did. The story is that Trump\u2019s lawyers wrote these questions as summaries of what Mueller told them he wants to ask Trump. So Trump\u2019s lawyers prepared these and —<\/p>\n
CALLER: It could be, but like you just said five seconds ago, why leak anything? What\u2019s going on here? Are they trying to create some kind of a facade again or something? Nah. I don\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There are two possible answers to that, depending on who\u2019s leaking. One scenario is that these questions demonstrate the overbroad, ridiculous, expansive nature of this investigation and that we\u2019re nowhere near the end of it if he still wants to know this stuff. The other —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n
RUSH: — thing is that leaking this stuff is designed to demonstrate the special doesn\u2019t have anything and is designed to take the winds out of the sails of Mueller by totally destroying whatever surprise he could have intended to hit Trump with.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. Could be. But if they actually came for Mueller and somebody actually leaked them, which you find so highly unlikely just because the whole idea of the collusion, something would have leaked out halfway sounding legitimate about that a —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — long, long time ago.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Since you are so highly suspicious of all of this, what do you —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Oh, absolutely.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What do you think this is, then?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I think somebody wrote it up again \u2019cause we\u2019re coming to a head here with Trump a little bit with the whole Korean thing and the Iran thing. And he\u2019s starting to look real good out in the media. And he\u2019s starting to look real good on Fox News and all that. Everybody\u2019s praising him.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hey. He always looks good on Fox News.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, yeah. But you got the guys from South Korea, the leader, saying Trump should get a Nobel prize this week? How about that? You know, and I know he\u2019s a friend of his also. But the thing is, so much is looking positive for Trump that I think the left is gonna have to keep throwing out things —<\/p>\n
CALLER: The left hates this.<\/p>\n RUSH: Oh, they do. His approval numbers continue to skyrocket. It looks like he\u2019s gonna win the Korean Peninsula thing that nobody\u2019s been able to win for 50 years, the economy\u2019s going great, things are going well. You think this is gonna remind everybody that Trump is actually a reprobate and stole the election?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, they want to keep that whole thing going, at least until the 2018 midterms. You know, and if he keeps looking positive and if he actually solves this whole thing with North Korea, that is so huge.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: That is so huge on the world stage, not just the United States.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right. If he gets us out of Obama\u2019s fake Iran deal, that\u2019s another one.<\/p>\n CALLER: That\u2019s another one. If he solves something over there, and you even got Condi Rice coming out today and saying, yeah!<\/p>\n RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n CALLER: And, you know, she\u2019s a highly respected person obviously.<\/p>\n RUSH: She is, and a member at Augusta National. She says: I wouldn\u2019t necessarily have pulled out because I\u2019d want to be able to manage the whole process, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna be any harm pulling out.<\/p>\n I gotta quickly go. Give me a question answer to the question. “What did you think and do when you heard that I was gonna be hired to investigate you?” That\u2019s supposedly one of the questions that Mueller wants to ask Trump.<\/p>\n CALLER: To me a professional attorney would never ask somebody in Trump\u2019s —<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, I know. But you\u2019ve gotta remember what this is all about.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: This is Crawford, Bay Shore, Long Island. Great to have you on EIB Network. Hello, sir. Crawford, are you there? Testing, one, two, three. He\u2019s not there. Crawford, are you there? Well, what Crawford was gonna say is that he believes that the leak of these questions is the handiwork of Rudolph “Rudy” Giuliani. That he is the latest addition to the Trump legal team, that he understands what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n Now, the New York Times said that their information, these questions were provided to them by somebody outside the Trump legal team. That\u2019s why learned legal beagles believe it\u2019s John Dowd, who\u2019s a former member of the Trump legal team who resigned in frustration over supposedly Trump not listening to him about not talking to Mueller.<\/p>\n I remember Rudy, when he took the gig, he said his objective was to get this thing wrapped up in two to three weeks. Now, that, of course, I don\u2019t think he was meaning in an exact two to three week time period, but to move this thing along, get it wrapped up. If you think this is Giuliani\u2019s handiwork, does this do that? I\u2019m just asking. I\u2019m not asking with a preconceived answer here behind the question. I\u2019m asking it open ended. Do you think the leak and publication of these questions furthers us toward an end to the investigation?<\/p>\n Okay. Kevin in St. Louis. You\u2019re next. We\u2019ll give you a shot. How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n CALLER: Just real quickly, I think that the reason Donald Trump wants to do the interview is because he\u2019s, as I\u2019ve said before, he\u2019s fully prepared for this. He knew this was gonna happen. He\u2019s got information he can use against them if they try to bring anything on him, and —<\/p>\n RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let\u2019s not just race through this. Information on who?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, like Comey, for one thing. If you remember, he was fired when he was in Los Angeles. So I\u2019m sure that they raided his office and took his computers and have information there. And like I said, I think that Donald Trump knew this was gonna happen, and it\u2019s phony, so there\u2019s really nothing that they can do to him that he\u2019s not prepared for.<\/p>\n RUSH: Yes, there is.<\/p>\n CALLER: What?<\/p>\n RUSH: There\u2019s things he can do to anybody no matter how prepared. Ask Martha Stewart. Ask Scooter Libby. It\u2019s not complicated at all. Here\u2019s just one example. You have an interview with Mr. Trump. You ask Mr. Trump, “What time was it when you had breakfast on the day you fired Comey?”<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t know, 8:30, 8:45.”<\/p>\n “Thank you.” Write it down. At the end of the interview you tell the president that we might need some follow-ups. We\u2019ll submit them in writing.<\/p>\n Even using your example, Trump wants to do this \u2019cause he\u2019s got some dirt on Comey that nobody knows. And in an interview with Mueller, he could divulge this info on Comey. I guarantee you that if Mueller wanted to go get Comey, he would have done it long ago. If Comey was a subject, if Comey was a person of interest — and he ought to damn well be is the point. But he\u2019s not, that we know of.<\/p>\n Now, you may think my example is crazy. But it\u2019s not, folks. These kinds of process crimes are attempted often. And now remember, police officers can lie in interrogations in order to get confessions. Supreme Court has said so. Kevin, thanks.<\/p>\n Richard, Washington, D.C., you\u2019re next. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you. And I appreciate the points that you\u2019re making. I just want to make three quick points. First of all, I disagree with your initial caller. Open-ended questions are not unprofessional. In fact, they\u2019re exactly the kinds of questions that professional police investigators live off of. They want to ask those questions and get responses to them to see what\u2019s there worth mining. And if you give them stuff through open-ended questions, that\u2019s what exactly what they\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n RUSH: Especially if you\u2019ve got a talker like Trump.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah, exactly. Second point. That list of questions that you were reading is not an inclusive list. There\u2019s no guarantee that there aren\u2019t other questions on that list. In fact, I\u2019m sure that there are. And there may be questions generated in the interview itself that aren\u2019t on that list.<\/p>\n RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n CALLER: And the third point is, as you just so aptly stated, the Supreme Court has long established that investigators can lie to you in the course of an investigation, but you can\u2019t lie to them. That\u2019s what sting operations are all about. A sting operation is a giant, contrived lie, and police investigators employ those all the time.<\/p>\n RUSH: Richard, I have a take a break coming in 10 seconds. Can you wait? I got one thing else I want to ask you on the other side of the break. Can you hang on?<\/p>\n CALLER: Sure. I\u2019d be happy to.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thanks much.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 And we are back with Richard in Washington.\u00a0 Thank you again for holding on.\u00a0 I want to… In addition to having one other question for you, I want to run something by you on the open-ended nature of the questions.\u00a0 You\u2019re exactly right, but let me ask you this.\u00a0 You sound like somebody with some experience. If a prosecutor actually has evidence of a crime and is trying to prove it, what is the likelihood the questions would not be open-ended?\u00a0 If he\u2019s got somebody he… Like, if he\u2019s got a defendant, he\u2019s got somebody on the witness stand or somebody he\u2019s investigating and he\u2019s actually trying to prove a known crime — he knows the crime\u2019s been committed; he\u2019s got evidence of it — he\u2019s not gonna ask open-ended questions at that point, is he?\u00a0 He\u2019s gonna bore in with specifics.<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 Well, Rush, it depends on what the evidence is that he has.\u00a0 If he has conclusive —<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 Well, when you want to lock your case down, that\u2019s when you start asking the open-ended questions.\u00a0 Most prosecutors appreciate a target or a person of interest who sits down with them and asks open-ended questions. (chuckles) Prosecutors appreciate the opportunity that that presents — and that\u2019s when they bore in. You know, once you agree to sit down with somebody and you\u2019re presented with these open-ended questions, the whole dynamic of that interview process changes in favor of the prosecutor.\u00a0 So I think that the prosecutors here, the investigators here understand that Donald Trump\u2019s weak point is his pride or his hubris.\u00a0 So he may be perfectly innocent and not having done anything illegal or inappropriate, but at that point, that doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 Something that you say that just comes out of your mouth in the moment can and most likely will be used against you by a very determined prosecutor, and I think that\u2019s what we have.\u00a0 The president would be very —<\/p>\n RUSH: I was thinking that it\u2019s when the prosecutor doesn\u2019t have any evidence that he would then go after every open-ended question he could come up with, in the hope that the target will give some responses that\u2019d give you state of mind. Or that the target just starts trying to prove his innocence by continuing to talk and talk and talk and make himself more and more vulnerable. His open-ended questions are designed to get the perp to start talking. Specific questions limit — if the perp is smart.\u00a0 Anyway, aside from all that, the question I wanted to hold you over and ask you about is, why do you think this has all been leaked?\u00a0 What do you think…? Whoever did it, for what purpose?\u00a0 Have you had any thoughts on that?\u00a0 I\u2019m just asking anybody.\u00a0 Everybody\u2019s opinion counts here today, as far as I\u2019m concerned, on this.<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s impossible to know.\u00a0 I think that you can make a very strong argument that this information was leaked in order to warn the president away from this.<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 But why would you have to leak it to do that?\u00a0 If his lawyers have these questions, why couldn\u2019t they take him in the Oval Office, shut the doors, and say, “You do not — you do NOT — want to get anywhere near this. This is the last place you want to be”?<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 You don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on inside those quarters, and the president… We all know that the president listens to certain outlets. Fox & Friends. He probably listens to you and a couple of others.<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 And there\u2019s nobody telling him to sit down and talk to this guy.\u00a0 Everybody out there is telling him not to do it.<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 We don\u2019t know that! And don\u2019t forget, the appeal of the prosecutors to the president is an appeal of pride — and it\u2019s a very clever one. It\u2019s a very clever appeal.\u00a0 You go after a person\u2019s weak point.\u00a0 You know, the original Greek story about the Achilles\u2019 heel. Achilles was a very powerful warrior that was basically immune everywhere except his heel.\u00a0 That was his weak part.\u00a0 Well, what do we know about Donald Trump?\u00a0 His weak point is his pride.<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 All right.\u00a0 So Mueller could go in saying, “Mr. President, look, everybody here knows that you didn\u2019t do this, and we really need to hear it from you and we can batten this down. We can wrap this up.\u00a0 But we just need to hear it from you.”\u00a0 So you think that Trump might be susceptible…? I know a lot of people who think Trump would buy into that yesterday.\u00a0 If Trump is needed to end this, if Trump\u2019s the guy that can bring this…Remember, Mueller can lie.\u00a0 “Mr. President, we all know what\u2019s going on here.<\/p>\n “You had nothing to do with this, but we can\u2019t wrap this up until you definitively tell us what we have to know here.”\u00a0 I know people who think Trump would fall for that simply because it appeals to his ego. It appeals to — like the caller says — his pride and so forth, and how he is totally necessary and needed for this to happen.\u00a0 Remember, if you\u2019re Trump… There\u2019s something else.\u00a0 If you\u2019re Trump, you\u2019re sitting there knowing full well you didn\u2019t do any of this.\u00a0 Okay?\u00a0 And I don\u2019t believe he did.<\/p>\n Folks, I think the people that colluded and have attempted to overthrow the outcome of an election are all on the Democrat side. They\u2019re all on the Hillary-DNC side.\u00a0 We know they rigged the elections in the primaries against Bernie Sanders.\u00a0 We know that.\u00a0 We know they hired Steele.\u00a0 We know all of the chicanery is on the other side.\u00a0 So if we assume that Trump didn\u2019t do it, he knows better than anybody he didn\u2019t do it, and he\u2019s gotta be driven crazy by this.<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 Just great.\u00a0 Thanks for taking my call.\u00a0 I\u2019m a longtime listener, first-time caller.\u00a0 But everything that has been said just bolsters my position about Trump.\u00a0 He\u2019s his own worst enemy because he does have a huge ego but he\u2019s very fragile. He\u2019s got a poor self-image.\u00a0 I think Stormy Daniels —<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!\u00a0 Did you say poor self-image?<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 That\u2019s why he sounds himself with so much opulence, and that is why he is best at what he does when he has a rally. He surrounds himself with people that absolutely love him, and he has nothing to defend himself there.\u00a0 But when he gets into stormy waters — (snickers) no pun intended — her attorneys are filing a defamation suit against him for something that happened allegedly because of her supposed relationship with him.\u00a0 And then if you watch Trump when he\u2019s facing a bunch of people he\u2019s having a conference with, whenever he crosses his arms in front of him, that\u2019s a defensive measure, because he\u2019s either unsure of his position or he\u2019s afraid of the response he\u2019s gonna get.\u00a0 So he\u2019s very thin skinned and he\u2019s afraid most of the time.\u00a0 The only time —<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 Really? So —<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 It\u2019s the sign of a good salesman too, because —<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 So you think Trump inside, he\u2019s a quivering mass of jelly who\u2019s insecure and —<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 — is afraid people are gonna found out that he\u2019s insecure?<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 Why does he want to talk to Mueller then?<\/p>\n CALLER:\u00a0 He shouldn\u2019t! (chuckling) Because he thinks he can overcome that.\u00a0 All during the campaign, “Lies! Lies! Lies!” and —<\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 Wait a minute.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t fit with somebody who has a poor self-image.\u00a0 Somebody who has a poor self-image (chuckling) is not gonna want to be in a room where Robert Mueller is.\u00a0 Look, I\u2019m fascinated by the way people think.\u00a0 So all this is cool\/fine with me, folks.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get upset.\u00a0 I\u2019m fascinated by it. Whether people are informed, not informed, or whatever, it still fascinates me the way people think, because when you learn that, then you can work with that. When you find out how people think, when you find out how they arrive at conclusions that they have drawn — or if they\u2019re feeling rather than thinking.\u00a0 So all of that is valuable to me from both a PR and marketing standpoint as I host the program.<\/p>\n I\u2019m glad you called out there, Ken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Trump pays attention to what his supporters think. 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RUSH: Hey, hey. Marcus, you may have a point here, because at the top of my Stack<\/a> after this question stuff is a story at TheHill.com today, “Gallup: Trump Approval Rating Reaches 11-Month High<\/a> — Trump\u2019s weekly approval rating has hit an 11-month high, according to polling data released by Gallup yesterday.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042018-Trump-Rudy.jpg\")
And if you think that, I\u2019d like to know why. Because these questions strike me as the questions you\u2019d have on day one. And we\u2019re into the second year of this. These questions should have been answered long ago, not by Trump, but I guarantee you their investigation\u2019s got some of these questions answered already. But they want Trump\u2019s take on it, if all this is legit, proof that this is about getting Trump.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021618-Mueller-Nothing.jpg\")
“Mr. Trump, we\u2019re confused here. What time, again, did you say you had breakfast on the day you fired Comey?” And if it doesn\u2019t come back 8:45 to nine, hello process crime, lying to investigators. And they can create a process crime any time they want. If you sit down and talk to them, the truth goes out the window.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-032118-Trump-Speaks.jpg\")
RUSH:\u00a0 My point is when there\u2019s no evidence is when you would go open-ended and hope the perp just starts vomiting things at you so that you can maybe tie some things together or go after intent.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/APP-012518-Mueller-Green.jpg\")
I would be!\u00a0 As the mayor of Realville, I would have gone nuts by now, after all this.\u00a0 If I\u2019m being pursued for something that didn\u2019t happen in the first place, A, I didn\u2019t do it.\u00a0 But, anyway, that\u2019s just speculation.\u00a0 We still don\u2019t know — and like the caller said, we may not know — where these questions came from and what the purpose is.\u00a0 But people have their thoughts and want to weigh in. Who\u2019s next, Mr. Snerdley for…? Okay.\u00a0 That\u2019d be Ken in Orlando.\u00a0 It\u2019s great to have you, sir.\u00a0 How are you doing?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-021.jpg\")
CALLER:\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 If he goes one on one with Mueller, they\u2019re gonna find that little chink in the armor; he\u2019s gonna go ballistic.\u00a0 And then they… You know, like you\u2019re pointing out: That doesn\u2019t have to be anything. “It was 8:45 in the morning.” “Well, yesterday you said it was 8:30,” and they\u2019re gonna build on that, and they\u2019re gonna build —<\/p>\n