{"id":274711,"date":"2018-05-23T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=274711"},"modified":"2018-05-29T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:43:31","slug":"spygate-trump-brands-the-criminal-deep-state-scandal-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/23\/spygate-trump-brands-the-criminal-deep-state-scandal-of-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Spygate! Trump Brands the Criminal Deep State Scandal of a Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Well, now Donald Trump\u2019s really done it. Now he has really done it. Now he\u2019s referring to them as the &#8220;criminal deep state.&#8221; The Drive-By Media has the vapors. They can\u2019t believe this. And James Comey is tweeting. And James Comey is admitting that the FBI used spies on Donald Trump. He calls them confidential human sources. Ha-ha. Plural.<\/p>\n<p>Great to have you, folks. Rush Limbaugh, as always, behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. The email address, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s Spygate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history. And, with that, Trump has given the scandal a name: Spygate. And then listen to this next tweet. This could be the poster and the slug line for the movie: &#8220;They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-274739 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-23-at-1.50.57-PM-1024x568.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-23-at-1.50.57-PM-1024x568.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-23-at-1.50.57-PM-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-23-at-1.50.57-PM-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-23-at-1.50.57-PM-1080x599.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-23-at-1.50.57-PM.png 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Would that not get you into the theater, if that were the slug line for a movie? Referring to the deep state as the criminal deep state. Yeah. It is amazing to watch this play out. James Clapper, you know, I\u2019m beginning to wonder about something. It is obvious to me that Clapper and Comey and Brennan and a few others are sticking their necks way out to protect&#8230; who? Why, none other than Barack Hussein O.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, where is Barack Hussein O? Well, he\u2019s out there making gazillions of dollars. Barack Hussein O just signed a multi-eight-figure deal with Netflix with Michelle (My Belle) Obama. So while Obama\u2019s out there raking in the dough, building a presidential library in the state of Illinois which is on the way to being abandoned &#8212; wait \u2019til you hear the news on that. I mean, we called this one last week. These guys are making absolute fools of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This guy Clapper is now lying all over the place. He\u2019s on with Maude Behar yesterday on The View. And she says (imitating Behar and Clapper), &#8220;Okay. Okay. So you\u2019re spying on the Trump campaign.&#8221; Clapper said, &#8220;Well, well, yeah, spying, yeah, I really don\u2019t like that word. But we were not spying on Trump. We were looking for Russians.&#8221; And Maude Behar said, &#8220;Well, he ought to be happy, he ought to love you, you\u2019re trying to help him out.&#8221; And Clapper says, &#8220;Yep, that\u2019s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2d03yjXRPtI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you realize how easy this is to refute? Forget timelines here. Of course the timeline is relevant and fascinating, but not for my point here. Oh, you know what? This is an excellent opportunity for me to let you in on how I think these people are now gonna set this all up. Meaning the deep state people, the FBI, DOJ people, Clapper, Comey, Brennan, Mueller, all of these people.<\/p>\n<p>Because now there is a legitimate curiosity about when this whole investigation began. And they\u2019ve lied to us about that through the Drive-By Media. They first tried to tell us the official investigation began when they decided Carter Page might be a problem. They got a FISA warrant based on the Steele dossier. Then they said, &#8220;No, it wasn\u2019t based on the Steele dossier. It was \u2019cause Carter Page had connections in Moscow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then that didn\u2019t fly because it was then revealed that the dossier\u2019s a bunch of crap! The dossier\u2019s political opposition research bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. So they tried something else: George Papadopoulos. Well, the investigation began July 31st, 2016, when it was learned that Papadopoulos was bragging while drunk to the Australian ambassador that he knew, the Trump campaign knew that the Russians had a bunch of missing Clinton emails.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, let\u2019s be straight about the emails they\u2019re talking about here. This is not the DNC hacked emails that ended up at WikiLeaks. There\u2019s two different sets of Democrat emails here. The ones we\u2019re talking about are the ones that they leaked to Papadopoulos that the Russians had the Hillary emails, the missing 30 or 33,000 Hillary e-mails.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be confused by this. The deep state is trying to make you think that the emails here are the DNC hacked emails that ended up at WikiLeaks and therefore are being published by media during the summer and fall of the campaign 2016. That\u2019s not the emails that Papadopoulos was fed information about, was bragging. Those are the Hillary emails. When Trump stood up and said, &#8220;Hey, Russia, hey, Russia, nobody can find these emails. The media\u2019s crazy. Maybe you can find \u2019em, Russia.&#8221; The fact that they didn\u2019t see that that was a joke is quite telling in and of itself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Deep-State.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Deep-State.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-Deep-State-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>But, anyway, then the Papadopoulos story bombs out. Now the thing is that, &#8220;No, no, the investigation actually began earlier than that.&#8221; &#8220;Oh, really? When?&#8221; &#8220;Well, it began in late spring.&#8221; &#8220;What triggered it in late spring?&#8221; &#8220;Well&#8221; &#8212; and this is what I want you to be on the lookout for. People in this deep state want you to think that everybody was minding their own business and watching the presidential campaign and letting it play out. There was no attempt to influence it at all until the Trump campaign named Carter Page and Paul Manafort, Carter Page to the foreign policy team, Papadopoulos to the foreign policy team, and Manafort as campaign manager.<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019re trying to say is the FBI already had files on these guys as people who had done business in Russia and in Ukraine, in the case of Manafort. And they\u2019re going to try to tell you that this was an automatic trigger and that it was a just trigger because these guys that ended up on the Trump campaign were legitimate security risks. This is why they\u2019re moving the beginning of the investigation back to late spring 2016, because that\u2019s when the foreign policy team was put together.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall &#8212; maybe you won\u2019t, but let me refresh your memoir. You know, Trump\u2019s an outsider. He doesn\u2019t have a whole lot of outsiders, never has had, doesn\u2019t listen to very many. But in a presidential campaign there\u2019s some must-dos. And so when you\u2019re on the verge of winning the nomination, when you\u2019re trending like you\u2019re gonna win it, the media in the political process begin to demand some things from you.<\/p>\n<p>And among those things, who is going to be on your foreign policy team? Who are your foreign policy advisers? And the reason this question is asked is because, as I have postulated, it simply isn\u2019t possible that everybody running for president throughout their life has met people in every walk of life that would perhaps qualify for a powerful position in a presidential administration.<\/p>\n<p>And so Trump was assumed to not know any of these people. &#8220;So, hey, who\u2019s gonna be on your national security team?&#8221;\u00a0 It\u2019s a setup question in the case of Trump.\u00a0 But the Trump administration decided they had to have some answers.\u00a0 So they went out and they picked some people to fill some jobs.\u00a0 One of them was Papadopoulos, one of them was Carter Page, and the other was Manafort, and that is when &#8212; that\u2019s what you\u2019re being told now &#8212; the FBI panicked because there was a legitimate reason to panic.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re gonna tell you, &#8220;Those guys had ties to Russia,&#8221; and it was at that point they\u2019re gonna try to tell you late spring 2016 that they had no choice than to start running an investigation of the Trump campaign to protect it.\u00a0 Maybe Trump didn\u2019t know these guys had ties to Russia.\u00a0 Now, you want to be able to nuke that?\u00a0 Let me tell you one way you can nuke that.\u00a0 If indeed the FBI and the DOJ thought that Carter Page and Paul Manafort&#8230; Let\u2019s throw Papadopoulos in for good measure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-274744 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052318-Spygate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052318-Spygate.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052318-Spygate-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>If they really, really thought that those hires meant the Russians were going to be involved in the very high-power structure of the Trump campaign, then why not go to the Trump campaign and warn them?\u00a0 Why not go to Trump and whoever else and say, &#8220;Look, you might want to rethink this.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got some info on these guys, and it doesn\u2019t look good.&#8221;\u00a0 Why wouldn\u2019t they warn Trump?\u00a0 If they really&#8230;? Now Clapper is out saying that\u2019s what they were doing by running their informants in the Trump campaign, they were looking out for Russian activity.\u00a0 No, no, no, no.\u00a0 By their own admission, they already had that when Page and Manafort were named.<\/p>\n<p>They already had that.<\/p>\n<p>They started running the spies in the campaign \u2019cause they already suspected Manafort and Page and to an extent Papadopoulos.\u00a0 This is what they\u2019re saying now, I\u2019m not, and it\u2019s gonna appeal to some people.\u00a0 I want to warn you, it\u2019s gonna appeal.\u00a0 And the reason for this, they\u2019re trying now at this late stage to come up with anything that will justify their investigation.\u00a0 And if they can say that it was perfectly reasonable to be concerned about Manafort and Page because they had ties to Ukraine and Russia, then they were doing the nation\u2019s business.<\/p>\n<p>But they weren\u2019t.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t looking to help Trump.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t looking to protect Trump.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t warn anybody in the Trump administration about these guys.\u00a0 They stood aside.\u00a0 They put spies in there, informants, and they hoped and prayed that Trump would collude with the Russians.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t trying to stop it.\u00a0 And by the same token, here\u2019s the way to nuke it number two.\u00a0 If the FBI, the DOJ, Page, Strzok, Comey, Clapper, Brennan &#8212; if they knew that the Russians were colluding, if they&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Forget that.\u00a0 If they knew and if they could prove &#8212; which they still haven\u2019t been able to do, by the way. If they could prove that the Russians were using the Trump campaign to screw the Hillary Clinton campaign and if Trump was involved, then why not stop it and arrest somebody who was responsible for it in the Trump campaign?\u00a0 Why sit back and watch it?\u00a0 Why put spies in that are not identifying themselves?\u00a0 If they are there to protect Trump, the way to protect Trump was to go to him and say, &#8220;Hey, you need to know about Manafort and Page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-274650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052218-Rush-Trump-Tower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052218-Rush-Trump-Tower.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052218-Rush-Trump-Tower-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to know what we know about \u2019em.\u00a0 You maybe need to rethink this.&#8221;\u00a0 They act really altruistic, but they weren\u2019t.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t say a word about this.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/22\/anatomy-of-the-conspiracy-to-entrap-trump\/\">spies were there for entrapment, not protection<\/a>.\u00a0 Yet Clapper is all over television trying to redefine the narrative that it was all for the protection of Donald Trump, that they weren\u2019t spying on Trump, that they were looking out for the Russians.\u00a0 The way to nuke that No. 3 is, &#8220;Okay, then, Mr. Clapper, if you\u2019re worried about the Russians tampering, why didn\u2019t you have a spy in the Hillary campaign?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why were you not concerned about the Russians trying to harm Hillary?\u00a0 Because, after all, you have said throughout all of this that that was the objective.\u00a0 The Russians were trying to hurt Hillary.\u00a0 Well, then why didn\u2019t you have some spies in her campaign to see if they were succeeding?&#8221;\u00a0 And the answer is &#8212; dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut &#8212; all of this is BS.\u00a0 They all expected Hillary Clinton to win.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t think Donald Trump had a chance.\u00a0 They wanted to destroy Donald Trump as soon as he won the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>They planted spies and so forth in late spring 2016.\u00a0 The Obama administration is where this whole thing originated.\u00a0 None of this is possible without the players and the actors in the Obama administration.\u00a0 And they are still out there &#8212; the Clappers, the Brennans, the Comeys &#8212; and they\u2019re doing everything they can.\u00a0 They\u2019re admitting to spying.\u00a0 They\u2019re trying to rearrange the narrative that it was helpful and not punitive.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Obama is out there not having to weigh in, not being asked about it, not being asked to defend the actions of his underlings while he\u2019s raking in big, beaucoup bucks from Netflix and whoever the publisher is. Is it Random House? I don\u2019t know who the publisher is for the joint memoir.\u00a0 But it\u2019s coming to a head now with Trump referring to this now as &#8220;Spygate,&#8221; &#8220;criminal deep state.&#8221;\u00a0 They go after phony collusion with Russia, a made-up scam.<\/p>\n<p>They end up getting caught in a major spy scandal the likes of which we may never have seen before.\u00a0 I think that is true.\u00a0 Trump tweeted last night that a spy was put in his campaign to help Crooked Hillary win.\u00a0 The tweet was, &#8220;If the person placed very early into my campaign wasn\u2019t a SPY put there by the previous Administration for political purposes, how come such a seemingly massive amount of money was paid for services rendered &#8212; many times higher than normal&#8230;[?]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Follow the money! The spy was there early in the campaign and yet never reported Collusion with Russia, because there was no Collusion. He was only there to spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win &#8212; just like they did to Bernie Sanders, who got duped!&#8221; This is a reference to Stefan Halper, who, in August of 2016, sought out Sam Clovis and wanted to be hired in the Trump campaign foreign policy apparatus.\u00a0 This is after! This is after late spring where the FBI seems to be set off by Trump hiring Manafort and Page.<\/p>\n<p>So while they want to tell us that they\u2019re all upset, &#8220;Oh, my God.\u00a0 The Russians may have a way into the Trump campaign&#8221; and not tell Trump, not warn him, but now say they\u2019re trying to protect him, in August they try to get a spy hired by the Trump campaign, the foreign policy operation.\u00a0 So Trump is right about this.\u00a0 It is what it is, and more and more people are beginning to see this.\u00a0 And now, there\u2019s another thing that\u2019s happened here that happens to be right up my wheelhouse in terms of a question I have always had about something.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 Folks, when I say &#8220;deep state,&#8221; I want to specify who I mean.\u00a0 FBI, DOJ people &#8212; not all of them, but the people whose names we know &#8212; Clapper, Brennan, Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Strzok, Page, Sally Yates.\u00a0 I mean, there\u2019s more than that, but that\u2019s what we\u2019re basically talking about.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe for a moment the FBI\u2019s story that they were trying to help Trump\/protect Trump by looking for Prussian collusion.<\/p>\n<p>They were there trying to implement collusion, if you ask me!\u00a0 I think they wanted to get that ball rolling!\u00a0 Now, the media&#8230; This is very important here, folks. The Drive-Bys are reporting that both John Brennan and Obama told the Russians that we knew what they were doing; they\u2019d better stop it.\u00a0 Remember Obama was asked specifically about this? When everybody was talking about Russian collusion in the spring of 2016 and even into 2015, Obama told everybody very proudly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YnY4HyofnoU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know, he put on the Clark Kent uniform and he said, &#8220;I called Putin, and I told him to cut it out!&#8221;\u00a0 Remember?\u00a0 And everybody swooned.\u00a0 &#8220;Oh, wow!\u00a0 Obama told Putin to cut it out!&#8221;\u00a0 And everybody believed Putin would cut it out.\u00a0 But what does that mean?\u00a0 It means Obama told the Russians that we knew what they were doing because Obama told Putin, &#8220;You\u2019d better cut it out.&#8221;\u00a0 Well, if we knew what they were doing, then why not help Trump in his campaign &#8212; tip him off, warn him &#8212; as they claim they were doing?<\/p>\n<p>You see, it cannot be fear of tipping off the Russians.\u00a0 They say the reason they didn\u2019t tell Trump is because they didn\u2019t want the Russians to know they were in on it and that they knew what they were doing, but they\u2019d already told the Russians they knew what he were this doing when Obama told Putin to cut it out!\u00a0 So if the Obama administration warned Russia directly and did it in the media, then why not tell Trump what\u2019s going on?\u00a0 Why use spies at all if you already knew what Russia was doing, hmm?<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Folks, a major, major point here. Barack Obama and Brennan have both said that the Russians were warned to stop doing what they were doing. Obama did it publicly, and Obama did this twice, by the way, in explaining how difficult it would be to actually hack and determine the outcome of a presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>But, I mean, even before Trump won the nomination, Obama\u2019s out there on TV and he\u2019s acknowledging this Russian attempt at collusion, and he said &#8212; I\u2019ll never forget it. We\u2019ve even played the audio where he\u2019s relaying to people that he had met with Putin and he had told him to cut it out. And he did it in this typical Obama faux professorial, pseudointellectual (imitating Obama), &#8220;And I was meeting with President Putin and I was very serious with him and I just told him to cut it out. Just that simple. I told him to cut it out.&#8221; As though the Word of God had just been handed down from Mt. Sinai.<\/p>\n<p>But the point is, Obama\u2019s acknowledging that they know that the Russians are trying something, or at least &#8212; you know, folks, I have to tell you something. I know it is conventional wisdom if you know what\u2019s good for you, you acknowledge, &#8220;Oh, yeah. The Russians, no doubt they were trying to hamper our election. No doubt they were.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041818-Russian-Hacker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041818-Russian-Hacker.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-041818-Russian-Hacker-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I have to tell you, I don\u2019t even buy into that, the way it\u2019s being portrayed. The Russians, and before them the Soviets, had as a matter of their existence the infiltration of various areas of their enemies. The Soviets long ago invaded American education. The Soviets long ago invaded American religion. It\u2019s just what communism does. It doesn\u2019t sit there and just idly observe enemies. It tries to destroy them.<\/p>\n<p>And during the Cold War and other areas the Soviets were all over this country attempting to influence. They\u2019ve always been trying to get spies placed in the State Department. Whitaker Chambers was one of the early Soviet spies who defected. Whitaker Chambers, the life and case highlighted by William F. Buckley Jr. at National Review. He was a long Soviet spy, came out, went public, details, many books written about it. Alger Hiss. It isn\u2019t new. And the way this is being portrayed is that it is new.<\/p>\n<p>This particular instance of Russian collusion is being presented to the American public as though there\u2019s something unique about it, never before done, because this collusion was aimed at Hillary Clinton, this collusion tried to steal a presidential election. And my point is that it isn\u2019t anything new. They have been trying to discredit American presidents and presidential candidates since the days of the Soviet Union, since the Malta conference they have been trying to do this.<\/p>\n<p>But this is all being presented as though it\u2019s unique, it is more successful than it\u2019s ever been. And I would even argue that. I would argue the old Soviet Union had much greater success infiltrating American institutions than this current crop of Putin former KGB people in stealing the U.S. election. It\u2019s flat-out not possible. And yet the narrative is that it happened and that they couldn\u2019t stop it and we tried, and it\u2019s just not true, folks, I say plaintively.<\/p>\n<p>So when I hear the Russians interfered, I don\u2019t join the conventional wisdom parade on this. I\u2019m not denying it; please don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just not joining the parade that treats this as something new and incredible and unprecedented and, boy, are we at great risk. We have been at great risk as a great nation since our founding. And we will remain a great nation at risk because the world is very dangerous and we\u2019re always gonna have enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The American people are being misled and lied to in unprecedented ways here. What the Russians are doing is not new, and it isn\u2019t unprecedented. And this particular effort of the Russians is not nearly as successful as previous efforts. I would contend to you that the Russians have had a bang-up success infiltrating the American college campus. Look at the professoriate, look at the faculty, look at the absolutely drivel, Marxism garbage that is common for you to pay 40 to 60 grand a year to send your kids there to get indoctrinated to it. It\u2019s common!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-248744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CaliforniaSMALL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CaliforniaSMALL.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CaliforniaSMALL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CaliforniaSMALL-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/>In California, Marxists essentially run the state, and have for a while. You could say the Soviets have succeeded in infiltrating California. You could accuse them of having great success in Seattle. You could say they\u2019ve had amazing success in Chicago. But they did not succeed in turning the election against Hillary Clinton. She lost that election on her own. Donald Trump won it on his own. And try as hard as they might, the Russians had nothing to do with it! Because they couldn\u2019t have, because as Obama has said it simply isn\u2019t possible to hack or to steal or to whatever adjective you want to use to describe rigging an election. It just isn\u2019t possible.<\/p>\n<p>But aside from all that &#8212; that was an aside &#8212; Obama admits that they knew what the Russians were doing, because Obama told Putin to cut it out. Long before Trump is the nominee. So then Trump hires Manafort, Carter Page, Papadopoulos. And what happened there? What happened there? When the FBI heard that Trump had hired Carter Page, Comey ran to Loretta Lynch, and she arranged a briefing where all the top intel people in the Obama Regime, National Security Council were gathered to hear about the stunning development that Carter Page had been hired.<\/p>\n<p>The upshot of the meeting was that Loretta Lynch said she would set up a meeting to warn Trump about Carter Page and his ties to the Russians. But that meeting never happened. They never tipped Trump off, which raises the question, why not? If the FBI was so concerned about Carter Page, so concerned the Russians were gonna tamper with the election, why not go in there and warn Trump instead of putting spies in there? Because, ladies and gentlemen, they were attempting to start or permit the collusion.<\/p>\n<p>They weren\u2019t try to stop it.\u00a0 If they were genuinely serious, tell Trump! Warn him about it.\u00a0 If their concern is really for the integrity of the American electoral process, then by all means go tell Trump.\u00a0 Warn him he may have just hired somebody with ties to Russia.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t do any of that.\u00a0 So if Obama warned Russia directly because Obama knew what they were doing, why not share it with Trump instead of using spies?<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t need spies.\u00a0 They knew what they were doing!\u00a0 So what are the spies really there for?\u00a0 The spies are there hoping for collusion and catching Trump at it.\u00a0 They wanted Carter Page to be an agent.\u00a0 They wanted Carter Page to engage the Russians as a member of the Trump campaign team.\u00a0 That\u2019s what they wanted to see. They wanted it! And when it didn\u2019t happen, they set it up with Page and Papadopoulos.\u00a0 They tried to set it up.<\/p>\n<p>These tried to make fake these events where Papadopoulos is drunkenly bragging about knowing Hillary\u2019s emails are in the possessions of the Russians.\u00a0 When collusion didn\u2019t happen, these people tried to make it look like it was happening by staging events!\u00a0 This is outrageous what they have done here.\u00a0 They leave Page there.\u00a0 They don\u2019t warn Trump.\u00a0 They desperately hope collusion happens so that their spy can see it and report on it and kick Trump out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 So after some time goes by, they set up Papadopoulos. They run him with Stefan Halper into the Australian ambassador\u2019s lap at a bar one night where gets drunk and starts bragging about the Hillary emails.\u00a0 I mean, this is so beyond the pale.\u00a0 And the reason I\u2019m spending time on this is I\u2019m driving in to work today and I\u2019m listening to&#8230; I don\u2019t even know what. It was satellite radio in the car, and it might have been Fox &amp; Friends.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 This is not to indict anybody, but there was a guest on explaining or trying to explain what I\u2019ve just explained to you, and the host said, &#8220;Well, okay.\u00a0 But let me play devil\u2019s advocate with you.\u00a0 What if all this is real?\u00a0 What if Carter Page really was a spy, and what if Manafort really was a spy? Was not the FBI justified in what they did?&#8221;\u00a0 And I said, uh-oh.\u00a0 Uh-oh.\u00a0 This is a friendly buying this latest narrative that the FBI had no choice.\u00a0 Now, admittedly, the friendly posed this as a devil\u2019s advocate.<\/p>\n<p>The point is the FBI\u2019s effort to make this look legit could work if you\u2019re not careful.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042718-Rush-Flag-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042718-Rush-Flag-002.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042718-Rush-Flag-002-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: To the phones we go.\u00a0 David, El Paso, Texas.\u00a0 Welcome.\u00a0 Sir.\u00a0 Great to have you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER:\u00a0 Hi, Rush.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been waiting to call you since I was in eighth grade.\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna get straight to it.\u00a0 Do you think anybody in this little cabal, I guess you say&#8230;? Do you think any of them are gonna finally face criminal charges?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 You know, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 There are so many things written about this.\u00a0 Victor Davis Hanson has one today at National Review, which is a very thorough documentation of all of the questionable and perhaps criminal activity that these people in the deep state have engaged in.\u00a0 And when you read it &#8212; and I don\u2019t have time to read the whole thing on the air here. But if you read it, you can\u2019t not ask yourself, &#8220;Why are these people not charged?\u00a0 Why are these people not in jail?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(sigh) The only thing that I could tell you about this is I think the best place to look to find an answer to this is Donald Trump. 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