RUSH: Man, oh, man, what is John Brennan paranoid about? What in the world has got him so bothered? Hint, hint — we know. But, man, is he acting out. This is the former CIA director under Obama. And he\u2019s acting like he is the head honcho of the Trump opposition and Trump resistance, and he may well be. But Trump is getting under this guy\u2019s skin like I haven\u2019t seen.<\/p>\n
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So yesterday President Trump tweets out that he thinks it\u2019s outrageous that the FBI, the DOJ would be spying on his presidential campaign. And he demanded, and he followed through on it today, that the FBI and the DOJ open an investigation to get to the bottom of it. After the president tweeted that, we got this from John Brennan, who once voted for the Communist Party candidate for president and who is — let\u2019s just say he\u2019s dubious. In my mind, this guy\u2019s dubious.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s an extreme leftist and a wacko in a number of ways. His tweet: “Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump\u2019s self-serving actions.”<\/p>\n
All Trump is doing is reacting to the Drive-By Media. The Drive-By Media last week, New York Times and Washington Post, both outed a spy, an informant in the Trump campaign. The president is simply responding to what was in the Drive-By Media, demanding an investigation to find out what\u2019s going on. By the way, there\u2019s a little wrinkle here that I need to add to these stories, New York Times, Washington Post.<\/p>\n
Do you remember when those stories hit? One of the initial reactions a lot of people had was why are they doing this? And everybody said it\u2019s because the inspector general report\u2019s coming up and they\u2019re trying to get this stuff out in advance to limit the damage so that when the IG report comes out, it\u2019s old news. “Oh, yeah, the Times had that last week. Nothing to see here.”<\/p>\n
Except the inspector general report is not about this. The inspector general report is about the Clinton email investigation at the FBI. There may be some overlap of personalities, Comey, for one. But the two investigations are separate. So that can\u2019t be the reason for these stories. You know what the reason was? Before these stories took place — do you remember this? — Devin Nunes, House Intelligence Committee chairman and Trey Gowdy have been demanding Nunes for months to see one thing.<\/p>\n
Nunes wants to know what the hell it is that triggered this investigation. What is it? And they have not released the document that explains what triggered the investigation. Now, about that, as I keep jumping off into tangents, but fear not, because I always circle back to the center of the circle.<\/p>\n
Andy\u2019s point, one of the points he made reminded me of something. He has stripped bare all of the confusion, the camouflage, the feints and the fakes and has zeroed back to what he thinks is the stated reason for this investigation, the whole thing, and it isn\u2019t Papadopoulos being set up by Stefan Halper. They tried that as an explanation, but Andy doesn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n When Andy explained what it is, it triggered my incredible memory for things that have happened on this program. McCarthy\u2019s theory is that the real beginning of this investigation that they want us to believe is when the DNC server was hacked, the RNC server, the attempt to hack it was thwarted, but the DNC server was successfully hacked, and from that point on, what did they tell us? They told us the Russians hacked the DNC server.<\/p>\n And then, lo and behold, it wasn\u2019t long before John Podesta emails started populating WikiLeaks, which then led those emails to be published publicly in American Drive-By Media and all other media. Except the problem with it is the FBI never examined that server. Remember, the DNC wouldn\u2019t turn it over. The DNC would not turn that server over. Nobody knows what\u2019s on the DNC server because Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz and whoever was running refused to turn it over.<\/p>\n And James Comey at the FBI said, “Oh. Okay.” And instead they hired a third-party outfit called CrowdStrike. The Democrats hired a bunch of people to go out and do the forensic exam of their server, and we were told that the Russians hacked it. They still have not shown us any evidence of this. There is not a shred of evidence that\u2019s been presented that that actually happened.<\/p>\n So when Andy wrote about this, I remembered having discussed this, this very thing on this program. So I started an in-depth search of RushLimbaugh.com. And I went out there and I found it. It was June 26, 2017. And I\u2019m gonna read to you from my transcript of what I said on June 26th, 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n He\u2019s got another blockbuster piece today, which we\u2019ll get to. He\u2019s been “on the warpath trying to get the Democrats to stop this by using several polls, this one being the most recent.” That they\u2019re going down a dry hole if they run for reelection, trying to take the House on the basis of impeaching Donald Trump. And look at what else I highlighted in this.<\/p>\n Me, again, quote: “I think so much of this stuff is made up. And I\u2019ll tell you the proof of that, or a good indication of that, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA never bothered to even ask to see the Democrat National Committee servers which ostensibly were hacked by the Russians. Not the RNC\u2019s, the DNC. That\u2019s the story. The Russians got in there and hacked the DNC computers. And they made no effort, the FBI, Comey, ‘Now we\u2019d like to see it.'” They refused, the DNC refused them, Comey said, “Okay, fine.”<\/p>\n “Sorry, you can\u2019t see it, Mr. Comey.” And that, by the way, I said in June of 2017<\/a>, quote, “And that, by the way, is the only evidence we have of Russian meddling anywhere, is the DNC server.<\/p>\n That, by the way, is the only evidence we have of Russian meddling anywhere is the DNC server.” And that\u2019s it. And Andy\u2019s piece — and let me tell you about Andy\u2019s piece. Andy\u2019s piece, you know, he\u2019s a prosecutor. This piece of his is the opening statement, witness interrogation and closing statement that would wrap this up if Andy McCarthy were in charge of all of it. It nails it.<\/p>\n Again it\u2019s called, “In Politicized Justice, Desperate Times Call for Disparate Measures.” And it\u2019s easy to forget things as they go by, because we\u2019re being urged to forget things, our minds are being clouded with the injection of distractions. I think, for example, the New York Times and the DOJ outing their spy, Stefan Halper, I now think that was a misdirection play.<\/p>\n I think it\u2019s designed to get everybody looking away from what the FBI and John Brennan at CIA don\u2019t want anybody seeing. And that is the whole premise for this whole thing. It\u2019s not Carter Page, it\u2019s not the Steele dossier. The whole premise is that the Russians hacked the DNC server. And to this day, every Democrat in this country and every Democrat member of Congress believes it. Nobody doubts it. Everybody accepted it. And we have never seen any evidence of it, and Devin Nunes has been demanding just that.<\/p>\n This guy has been more courageous and has exhibited more guts than a member of Congress in recent memory has. He has stayed focused. And I firmly believe that the reason the New York Times and the Washington Post ran those stories last week outing their spy was an attempt to blame the leak on Nunes.<\/p>\n It turns out they were not shown documents. And another meeting was set up. So Nunes and Gowdy leave, and then it\u2019s a day, day and a half later that the New York Times and the Washington Post publish stories about a spy from the FBI, the DOJ in the Trump campaign. And I am convinced that they tried to have those stories sourced to Nunes. They wanted to make the case. The only reason they invited Nunes up there was to try to expose him as a leaker.<\/p>\n They knew they were gonna leak these stories. They have a Nunes up there, they don\u2019t show him anything, he goes away having not seen anything. Then these stories hit, and the next objective on their part was to lay blame at the feet of Devin Nunes for having leaked what he had been told or seen.<\/p>\n And they were going to savage him as a leaker and destroy his credibility. And he figured out what was going on in time to put the kibosh to it and is now refusing — There\u2019s another invitation to go up there this week and he\u2019s refusing any more invitations until he is going to get a guarantee that they\u2019re gonna show him this document.<\/p>\n So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bite No. 4 because Nunes was on Fox Business Network on Sunday with Maria Bartiromo.<\/a> It\u2019s about a 10-minute piece, but we pulled one clip here. Bartiromo said, “You said this was the mother of all leaks conducted by the Department of Justice.” And again he\u2019s talking about the leaks that led to the New York Times and Washington Post stories detailing everything the spy did. They just didn\u2019t name the spy.<\/p>\n But they told us the spy met with Carter Page, the spy met with George Papadopoulos, the spy had connections with the Australian ambassador, the spy this, the spy that. So everybody knew it was Stefan Halper and basically the New York Times, Washington Post confirmed what I had learned the previous weekend ago and told you about. There it was. Their attempt was to blame all of those stories on Nunes leaking. And Maria Bartiromo asks him, “You said this was the mother of all leaks conducted by the Department of Justice. What are you referring to?”<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, they admitted it! They admitted it! And remember, everybody thought this was to get an out to lessen the impact when the IG report comes out. The IG report is not about this. It\u2019s about a Clinton email investigation. They leaked this in an attempt to harm Nunes. And in the process of leaking it, they confirmed that there was indeed a spy.<\/p>\n There was a spy in the Trump campaign. So Trump tweets about it, and he\u2019s livid, and he\u2019s demanding an investigation now. And that\u2019s when Brennan has a conniption. “Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump\u2019s self-serving actions.”<\/p>\n Trump reacted: “John Brennan is panicking. He has disgraced himself, he has disgraced the Country, he has disgraced the entire Intelligence Community. He is the one man who is largely responsible for the destruction of American\u2019s faith in the Intelligence Community.”<\/p>\n Not only that, these people have done more damage to the electoral process than Vladimir Putin could dream of. The FBI, the DOJ, the people involved here, John Brennan, everybody involved in this phony hoax that the Russians tampered with this election, because they have sought to make everybody believe this election was not legitimate. That\u2019s been the whole point. And its source is the DNC server supposedly being hacked by the Russians for which we have not seen a shred of evidence.<\/p>\n So why is Brennan panicking? What the hell\u2019s he got invested in this? He\u2019s gone. He\u2019s not the CIA director anymore. He\u2019s out there, whatever, he\u2019s chewing his cud, you know, tilling the fields on Stefan Halper\u2019s farm in Virginia. What does Brennan care? Well, obviously Brennan cares a lot. Why does Brennan care?<\/p>\n Well, the Wall Street Journal has a great story, column today by James Freeman<\/a>. “Why aren\u2019t we hearing about Obama on all of this? This was his administration that did all this. It was his people that did all this. Why isn\u2019t anybody asking Obama what he thinks of what happened here?” Well, people did ask Obama, and he said none of this was possible. We\u2019ve played those sound bites for you, and we\u2019re gonna play \u2019em again. As you can tell, we are just getting warmed up.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: The New York Times is trying to walk back some of their devastating reporting on the fact that there was a spy in the Trump campaign. You remember last week, James Clapper went on CNN<\/a> and said, “No, no, no! That\u2019s all hyperbole. There wasn\u2019t any spying on Trump. They were trying to find out if the Russians had involved themselves in the Trump campaign,” which is the biggest crock. Because if that\u2019s true, if that\u2019s what we need to do, then when the Democrats have a Democrat nominee in 2020 let\u2019s put a spy in there!<\/p>\n I actually laughed out loud when I saw that one. There wasn\u2019t any spying on Trump. Just like what Clapper said. No, no, no! They were trying to protect the Trump campaign from any Russian bad guys. She said, “The infiltration of a U.S. presidential campaign by a hostile foreign power presents a grave national security threat of the highest order,” except there was no evidence. They don\u2019t have any evidence of Russian spy. Nobody\u2019s produced any yet.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Back to this New York Times — I mean, they\u2019re trying to walk this back now, because they tried to pin these leaks on Nunes, they were trying to damage Devin Nunes with this. They wanted to run stories that Nunes had exposed the intelligence community, that Nunes had put a spy\u2019s life at risk. These two stories, New York Times, Washington Post, were actually an attempt to destroy Devin Nunes. And it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n So now they\u2019re walking it back, they\u2019re trying to, and one of the attempts to walk it back is this New York Times column from Asha Rangappa. In fact, a former FBI agent. Oh, yes! It\u2019s so perfect. And she says that the FBI wasn\u2019t spying on Trump. They weren\u2019t spying on the Trump campaign. They weren\u2019t using an informant. They were protecting him.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t you see? The FBI loved Trump. They were benevolent as they could be. They love this whole process and they were trying to protect Trump from Russian collusion. Now, wait a minute. A, there isn\u2019t any evidence of any. But, B, according to the theory, Trump was in on it! What do you mean, protect Trump? Trump was supposedly in on the collusion! The whole thing falls apart if Trump is a victim. Well, it doesn\u2019t totally fall apart. They could still try to make the case the election was illegitimate.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-051718-Deep-State-APP.jpg\")
Andy McCarthy had maybe one of his best columns ever on Saturday at National Review, “In Politicized Justice, Desperate Times Call for Disparate Measures<\/a>.” I would actually love to read this whole thing to you, but I\u2019m not going to because it\u2019s very long. But we\u2019re gonna link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. It was posted early Saturday morning. You should read it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ObamaPutin650-062317-WP.jpg\")
<\/a>Quote, me, “The Democrats are all being urged to walk back from it now, folks. I mean, everywhere, even Adam Schiff, numbers of Democrats are being urged to drop it,” meaning impeachment, “move on to something else \u2014 jobs, the economy, what have you. A Harvard poll shows that two-thirds of the American people are fed up with the story –” this was a year ago. “They don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything there and it\u2019s damaging the country. It\u2019s a Harvard poll, done by Mark Penn, former Clinton pollster.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020518-Nunes-002.jpg\")
Timeline again, Nunes for weeks, months, has been demanding not much, it\u2019s not a whole lot of documents. He just wants to see from the FBI to the DOJ, what is it that you people have that started this whole investigation of Russian collusion with Trump. And they have yet to produce it. So last week Nunes and Gowdy were finally invited up to the DOJ where they thought they were going to be shown the documents, remember?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/FOXNewsNunes2.jpg\")
<\/a>NUNES: There were two mainstream media outlets on Friday night that had lots and lots and lots of details. If any of that is true, if they ran a spy ring or an informant ring and they were paying people within the Trump campaign, if any of that is true, that is an absolute red line. There is not an honest person in this country who can believe that taxpayer dollars going to fund this ring and operate like this like what\u2019s said in the New York Times would have quite a bit of detail on it, if any of that is true, this a red line in this country. You can\u2019t do this to political campaigns. If they paid someone, it\u2019s an absolute red line, and this is over with.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ClapperCNN051818.jpg\")
<\/a>Let\u2019s deploy an informant and a spy! Get Clapper to agree. Make sure that no outside actors attempt to screw with the Democrat campaign, right? I mean, it would be very valuable stuff is what Clapper said. An absolute crock. Well, the New York Times had an op-ed by somebody named Asha Rangappa, a woman. Ms. Rangappa\u2019s point was (summarized), “Mr. Trump, the FBI wasn\u2019t spying on you. The FBI was trying to protect you!”<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>But it doesn\u2019t matter. There isn\u2019t any evidence. The second thing that you could use to throw this one out with the bathwater is, are you really trying to tell me that people like Strzok and Brennan and Clapper and all these other people, like Trump? These people were trying to protect Donald Trump? Are you kidding me? John Brennan is out there threatening, with his tweets, he is threatening McConnell and Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n