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Two things longtime listeners know about you that you don\u2019t buy into even when loyalists want you to. One is the electability of a third-party candidate. The other big one is the fact that you don\u2019t see a conspiracy around every corner. You never have. And when you saw this ridiculous Russian collusion story, I think you analyzed it the way you do. You did not buy into the conspiracy. What you said is let\u2019s follow the money. What is the practical, real-world reason this is being done?<\/p>\n
First it looked like an excuse for Hillary. But I think it\u2019s obviously looking like a lot bigger thing than that. You have people that were on the inside, think about a business or any other organization where they know there\u2019s gonna be a new CEO or president coming in, they all want to do those things beforehand that are gonna endear them to that person, put them close to power. Now, you multiply that times a thousand when you\u2019re talking about the presidency of the United States. And they all were clamoring to be able to go in and say, “Look what I did.”<\/p>\n
She was ready for a coronation and it didn\u2019t work out. So now you gotta backtrack. And I think it\u2019s your ability to not see conspiracies that allows to you dissect things. And the Nunes situation is another example. You know, that really opened my eyes. They were looking for a fall guy or a patsy to be another leaker, and that was gonna be Devin Nunes. That was their distraction or defense.<\/p>\n
What I was telling Snerdley when I called is that I think there\u2019s also an offensive component to that. And the offensive component is the deep state working behind the scenes with Clapper and all the other loyalists from the past administration, you put them out there in the media to make this spy and to make this situation, not only a push —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hang on. I was hoping you would get there, and you almost did, but hang on.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. We\u2019re gonna go back to John in Port Huron. I want to pick up where you said that you think there\u2019s an offensive part of this, too, that they\u2019re engaging in now, not just trying to cover their tracks and deflect people. What\u2019s the offensive part of this?<\/p>\n
CALLER: The break made me be able to do this quickly. Clapper is the quarterback. The offense coordinators are the deep state members. They\u2019re feeding Clapper and other people like Clapper that came out of that mess with the previous administration with the information and the strategy on the spy within the campaign and everything that surrounds it. And that is this.<\/p>\n
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Not only is it not a bad thing to spy on your political opponent, when there are huge things at stake like Russian collusion, it\u2019s a good thing, and the point person who was involved in the campaign, spying on the campaign, that is, is actually going to be made into an American hero. And, oh, by the way, he\u2019s a Republican, so he must have been totally objective, if his only object was to save the Democratic process in the United States.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s almost like making someone into a whistleblower. So not only is that not a bad thing anymore, it\u2019s a good thing, and anyone who participated in it, including Clapper and Brennan are American heroes. And there it is. That\u2019s the offense. That\u2019s the story they have to run because it\u2019s getting too close to home now.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think that may be part of what\u2019s going on. I think it\u2019s clear that the original objective failed. The original objective was to get rid of Trump. And, folks, do not doubt me on this. They thought they could get it done in six months. I could run through again why they thought they could. Remember these people have incredible arrogance, and in their own personalities you cannot intimidate them. They are everything, they know everything, they run everything.<\/p>\n
Nobody\u2019s in their league. They\u2019re so powerful they can write whatever script they want and sell it to the Drive-By Media, have it run. And they were, I think, cock certain that they were gonna be able to get Trump hated and despised in the first six months by convincing people that his election was fraudulent because the Russians hated Hillary and wanted him to win because he\u2019s a doofus and the Russians had blackmailable stuff on him and the Russians were gonna run rings, the Russians gonna devastate us because Trump is unprepared, unqualified, he\u2019s a boob, he\u2019s a rogue, he\u2019s all these horrible, rotten things, look at what the Russians did. It all starts with the Russians supposedly hacking the DNC server, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n
When that didn\u2019t work, well, now was time for Plan B. And Plan B was to ramp it up and to flood the zone. Four different stories every day from anonymous sources deep inside the intelligence communities furthering the idea that there was collusion by Russia with Trump. And the way they ratcheted it up was that Trump was working with Russia. That didn\u2019t work. Nothing they have tried worked.<\/p>\n
Then Mueller comes along, and I think the Mueller appointment was to cover up, to provide a cover-up for all of the efforts they had engaged in to try to get rid of Trump, such as informants and spies and using the media and all these abject lies, lying to a FISA court judge in order to get a warrant based on opposition research. They had to hustle to cover up the exoneration of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton was guilty of so many felonies for which people are in jail, they had to distract people from that, they had to misdirect people away from it. They exonerated Hillary. They had made the decision early on she was not gonna face charges. She was not going to be prosecuted. Nothing was gonna happen, had to cover that up.<\/p>\n
Now, the caller was very complimentary to your host, and I appreciate that, saying that one of the reasons I\u2019m able to get down to the real nub of these things is that I don\u2019t subscribe to conspiracy theories or conventional wisdom. And he\u2019s exactly right. Can I tell you why the Russian collusion theory never worked on me? It\u2019s not possible. It\u2019s not possible to steal an election the way these people were setting it up to be done. And Obama himself said so. It simply isn\u2019t possible.<\/p>\n