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<\/p>\nRUSH: There are three judges now openly questioning the entire Mueller investigation from their positions on the bench, and perhaps one of the funniest ones… You remember when Mueller indicted 13 Russian troll farms? They\u2019re housed in Ukraine or Stalingrad, Leningrad, Snowdengrad, wherever they are. And of course these indictments, Mueller never expects these people to respond.<\/p>\n
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Mueller never expects these people to show up. Mueller never expects these people to be extradited. Mueller never… So he indicts \u2019em purely for the PR of it. Indicting these 13 Russian troll farms for their supposed monkeying around with Facebook and Twitter and the selling of ads or placement of ads was designed to further the illusion that Trump colluded with Russia. Well, one of these troll farms has decided to show up and answer the charges, and Mueller has been totally taken aback.<\/a> They don\u2019t know what to do!<\/p>\n Because now if they pursue this, Mueller is gonna have to display his case. Mueller\u2019s gonna have to answer discovery. Mueller is gonna have to put on display what he\u2019s got against these Russian troll farms, and it is the last thing… Look, do not doubt me. It is the last thing Mueller ever expected to happen. The firm is Concord Management, and I am as sure as I\u2019m sitting here that Mueller had no idea that any of these 13 Russian firms or entities would do anything in response to the indictment.<\/p>\n But Concord Management and Consulting… They were accused, by the way, of “knowingly and intentionally conspiring” to interfere with the election by using social media to disparage Hillary and support Trump. That\u2019s the charge. So they are showing up to defend themselves, and this indictment was obviously nothing more than a PR stunt. And in the process of defending the charge, Concord Management “could force [Mueller] to turn over discovery about how the case was assembled as well as evidence that might undermine the prosecution\u2019s theories.”<\/p>\n Now, Mueller, the special counsel, had to move at rapid pace here in response to this. His team tried to say that the Concord Management people never formally accepted the court summons related to case, so they really can\u2019t defend. (laughing) Mueller is trying to tell \u2019em they can\u2019t defend themselves pause the time has passed, that they didn\u2019t formally accept court the court summons — i.e., they didn\u2019t accept the demand to be extradited.<\/p>\n But the Russians hit back on this. They filed a response Friday to let the court know that they voluntarily appear through counsel as the provided in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. They further intend to enter a plea of not guilty, and they want to demonstrate that all of this is a bunch of hooey — and I guarantee you, this is the last thing Mueller ever thought he was gonna have to deal with.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: By the way, the Russian troll farm that decided to defend itself? It\u2019s one of the 13 entities charged by Mueller with monkeying around with social media to help Trump beat Hillary. Concord Management decided to defend itself. The Mueller team asked the judge for a delay, \u2019cause this means Mueller\u2019s gonna have to turn over all the evidence that he has to substantiate his charge against this outfit. But Mueller\u2019s team…<\/p>\n ‘Cause they were never expecting this. Folks, this is great. Mueller\u2019s team immediately asked for a delay in order to postpone such revelations as long as possible because there\u2019s a Wall Street Journal today about how special counsel may have to “go dark at some point later this year leading up to the midterm elections. Not that the special counsel\u2019s gonna wrap it up. “Oh, no, no, no, no! He might have go dark,” which is a crock. The special counsel isn\u2019t gonna go dark.<\/p>\n The special counsel\u2019s not gonna stop leaking. The special counsel is not gonna stop trying to get Donald Trump. They\u2019re gonna rev it up as we get closer to the midterms, not go dark! They might say they\u2019re gonna go dark. They might want you to believe they\u2019re gonna go dark. But they\u2019re not gonna go dark. They\u2019re not gonna go silent. They\u2019re not gonna shut down. Now, this firm, Concord Management, deciding to answer the charge, they want this trial right now.<\/p>\n They want the evidence presented right now. Mueller asked for a delay, and the judge said no. They wanted to postpone any reveal, any revelations of evidence they\u2019ve got against the troll farm as long as possible. The judge in the case denied their motion for a delay. So things could get very… There have been three instances now where judges have either offered unsolicited opinions from the bench or issued rulings that are perilous, potentially damaging for the special counsel.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s got the left discombobulated. Adam Schiff, Pencil Neck\u2019s running around, “This is very inappropriate, I think, for these judges to be speaking the way they\u2019re speaking, for these judges to be saying…” See, these people are used to a clear playing field with no opposition on the field. And the minute opposition shows up… Remember, they\u2019re running a con game anyway here, folks. They\u2019re running a scam!<\/p>\n And these judges are in the process here — whether intentionally or inadvertently — they\u2019re running the risk of exposing this about Mueller! Legally. Not just from opinions from people on radio, TV blogs or what have you. So it\u2019s perilous time in the sense that they\u2019re dealing with things at the special counsel office that have not been put in their way before, obstacles and so forth.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now we\u2019re taken back to these three judges that have now called out this investigation. I\u2019ve spoken about one of them, and that\u2019s the Concord Management case, one of the Russian troll farms. There are 13 of them that Mueller indicted for having tampered with Facebook and Twitter. These people had run ads that the Russians had sponsored and paid for. These people had run the ads on Facebook and Twitter, and the purpose of the ads was to tell people that Donald Trump had stolen the election from Hillary Clinton or something like that.<\/p>\n Mueller never expected this because these were PR indictments. These were Russians, Ukrainians. There\u2019s no extradition treaty. There\u2019s no way Mueller thought these people would even respond. So he thought he had a free and clear way of scoring a major PR victory by indicting 13 Russian troll farms for tampering with the American election via Facebook and Twitter. Well, one of them has decided to respond to it and plead not guilty.<\/p>\n They\u2019re commanding to see all of the evidence that Mueller has that he used to indict them. They\u2019re demanding for all kinds of discovery to see just what Mueller found out, what evidence he\u2019s got so that they can defend themselves. Mueller — so taken aback — asked the judge for a delay, a postponement, and the judge denied. So now the special counsel\u2019s office has to come up with and they have to put on display to Concord Management\u2019s legal team all of the evidence they claim to have to prove that these people tried to tamper with the American election.<\/p>\n And again, Mueller never intended this to happen because the reason you indict a bunch of foreigners with no extradition treaty is so that you never hear from \u2019em again. The theory is, “Yeah, we got the goods on \u2019em, we know they did it, but they\u2019re not gonna respond because they don\u2019t have to. There\u2019s no extradition treaty.” Well, these people at one of the 13 troll farms has decided to defend themselves. So as of Friday, three separate judges have spoken out or ruled against the Mueller investigation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050318-Limbaugh-Legal-Analysis.jpg\")
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It was all a bunch of lies. Since then we\u2019ve learned that the amount of money they spent on ads and the number of ads would not even cause a ripple in the ocean. They could not have had any impact whatsoever. But Mueller for PR purposes indicted these Russian troll farms and accused them of trying to sabotage the American election with the placement of ads on Facebook and Twitter. Well, one of these firms has decided to plead not guilty! They\u2019ve decided to respond.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s called the scope memo, and Mueller has resisted making it public. So has Rosenstein. This judge has demanded to see it within two weeks. He did say that he would accept it in private in his chambers. He would look at it himself before making it public. But he said that Mueller should not have unfettered power to prosecute Manafort for charges that have nothing to do with Russian collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Now, I just want to tell you something here about this.<\/p>\n