{"id":275100,"date":"2018-05-30T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=275100"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:19:04","slug":"trey-gowdys-deeply-troubling-take-on-spygate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/05\/30\/trey-gowdys-deeply-troubling-take-on-spygate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Gowdy\u2019s Deeply Troubling Take on Spygate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the Trey Gowdy sound bites. We\u2019re gonna start here with Fox News last night. Trey Gowdy is on the network to talk about the Department of Justice briefing last week on whether or not there was an informant in the Trump campaign. Question: &#8220;Anything that you can share on a broad scale about what went down there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>GOWDY: It was President Trump himself who said, number one, &#8220;I didn\u2019t collude with Russia, but if anyone connected with my campaign did, I want the FBI to find that out.&#8221; It looks to me like the FBI was doing what President Trump said I want you to do. Find it out. He\u2019s not the target. Chris Wray and Rod Rosenstein have at least made it clear to us, Donald Trump was never the target of the investigation. He\u2019s not the current target of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MxhTwQDbW7A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. Now, one thing to keep in mind here, and this may surprise some of you, Trey Gowdy has never met Donald Trump. Trey Gowdy\u2019s never talked with Donald Trump. Another way of saying that is, Donald Trump has never spoken with Trey Gowdy. Donald Trump has never met Trey Gowdy. So here is the next bite. And the question, &#8220;Okay, that point of view you\u2019re talking about right now, was that strengthened when you went into this briefing last week, everything that you saw?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>GOWDY: Yes. I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. I know exactly what this is. And I have to tell you, I have some questions. I think to get where I want to go, let me give you something else that Gowdy said on CBS This Morning yesterday. No, wait a minute. What day is it? Is this Wednesday or Thursday? Okay, so he said it today. You know, you miss Monday, and you wonder what day it is sometimes. Okay. This is Wednesday. So it was this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Gowdy said, &#8220;When the FBI comes into contact with information about what a foreign government may be doing in our election cycle, I think they have an obligation to run it out. Based on what I\u2019ve seen, I don\u2019t know what the FBI could have done or should have done other than run out a lead that somebody loosely connected with the campaign was making assertions about Russia. I would think you would want the FBI to find out whether there was any validity to what these people are saying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I like Trey Gowdy. I have interviewed Trey Gowdy for <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/the-limbaugh-letter\/\">The Limbaugh Letter<\/a>. I have nothing but praise for him. But, sadly, do you know what he\u2019s talking about here? And I knew this was gonna happen. I even predicted it was gonna happen. I predicted that the FBI, the DOJ, and the Clappers and the Brennans would try to rely on the idea that George Papadopoulos was telling people that he knew that the Russians had Hillary emails, that they would use that as justification for having an informant in the campaign. That and Carter Page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-275102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-053018-Gowdy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-053018-Gowdy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-053018-Gowdy-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, you in this audience know that Papadopoulos didn\u2019t know anything on his own. The Trump did not know that the Russians had Hillary Clinton emails. To this day nobody knows whether that\u2019s true. Again, a man named Joseph Mifsud in April of 2016, he\u2019s an associate of the FBI informant Stefan Halper. He\u2019s nowhere to be found, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a Maltese academic. And he put the word in Papadopoulos\u2019 mind that there were Hillary Clinton emails that the Russians had, thousands of them. Later the same year Halper offers Papadopoulos a speaking engagement and an opportunity to write a paper on energy concerns in Turkey, Cyprus, and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>He asked him to come to Europe, deliver the paper, and paid $3,000 plus travel expenses. Papadopoulos does. During that period of time, the FBI informant says to Papadopoulos, &#8220;George, you remember the Russians and those thousands of Hillary emails that they have?&#8221; So now two people have told Papadopoulos that the Russians have thousands of Hillary Clinton emails. The third step in this little scam is a drinking event at a bar arranged by Halper where Papadopoulos meets the Australian ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>He happens to be a $25 million bundler, donor to the Clintons. Alexander Downer. At this bar Papadopoulos, after getting a little liquored up, happens to start bragging that he knows that the Russians have thousands of Hillary emails &#8212; after Mifsud told him and after Halper told him! Downer then runs back to whoever his contacts are and says, &#8220;Hey, I got somebody here in the Trump campaign saying that they know the Russians have Hillary\u2019s emails!&#8221; Well, Papadopoulos doesn\u2019t know anything.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, what Gowdy is seeing here is only that Papadopoulos told the Australian ambassador that the Trump campaign knew the Hillary campaign\u2019s emails were in the hands of Russians. How does Gowdy not know how Papa&#8230;? And Carter Page is the other person that they were running, trying to get him filled with information. In other words, all this information about the Russians was planted in the Trump campaign by this informant and one of his buddies.<\/p>\n<p>But when Gowdy says, &#8220;When the FBI comes into contact with information about what a foreign government may be doing in our election cycle, I think they have an obligation to run it out. Based on what I have seen, I don\u2019t know what the FBI could have done or should have done other than run out a lead that someone loosely connected with the campaign was making assertions about Russia&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos didn\u2019t know anything until it was planted! Certainly, Gowdy knows that. Maybe he doesn\u2019t believe that\u2019s true. Maybe the FBI told him that that story about Papadopoulos and Halper is all BS; that Papadopoulos did know it independently. But this is a key element of this whole thing that it appears, as I thought it would be, is being ignored.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Man, this is deeply troubling to me. I have to tell you. I guess it\u2019s understandable, but it\u2019s just deeply troubling.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. Look, folks, the Trey Gowdy situation. I don\u2019t mind admitting this bothers me greatly. I don\u2019t know Trey Gowdy that well. I mean, <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/the-limbaugh-letter\/\">I\u2019ve spoken to him interviewing him for The Limbaugh Letter.<\/a> I\u2019ve admired him. I have thought that he\u2019s gutsy and courageous. He\u2019s chaired a bunch of congressional committees &#8212; Benghazi, for one. He is close friends with some people I know and trust immensely. But I\u2019m just&#8230; I\u2019m really puzzled over this. I\u2019m&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/05\/29\/catching-up-on-spygate-news\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-274993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052918-Spygate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052918-Spygate.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-052918-Spygate-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Well, I\u2019m actually not puzzled by it. I think I know exactly what\u2019s going on here. I just don\u2019t want to say it with ontological certitude on this. But I think I\u2019ve got a pretty good idea what\u2019s going on here. I want to go back and read to you what Gowdy said this morning on CBS. I want to reset the table, because I\u2019m sure that most of you have heard my in-depth explanation of how Carter Page and Papadopoulos were used by these informants or spies, by British intelligence and the DOJ, FBI. Well, hell, the entire U.S. intelligence service. Brennan and Clapper are in on this too.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve heard Sam Clovis &#8212; Sam Clovis, who was in the Trump campaign, the transition and the administration until shortly ago &#8212; say that Stefan Halper approached him and wanted an entree to George Papadopoulos and then wanted to be hired in the Trump campaign foreign policy establishment. He was clearly reporting back to the FBI. Clovis sent him away without hiring him and without providing him the information that he wanted. So all of this is widely known. I mean, it\u2019s easily discovered.<\/p>\n<p>And the idea that the FBI really thought that George Papadopoulos knew independently that the Russians&#8230;? Papadopoulos to this day doesn\u2019t know it. Nobody knows it! Nobody knows whether the Russians have Hillary\u2019s emails, and the only reason Papadopoulos was talking about it was because the FBI\u2019s informants and employees fed him the information. He\u2019s a peripheral player. Trump never even met him, maybe once for 10 minutes at a cocktail party.<\/p>\n<p>He never advised Trump on foreign policy. That\u2019s why he was chosen! He was 24 it years old. They were puffing the guy up, making him feel like he was an integral part and a big player in all this. He\u2019s meeting all these highbrow, top-notch intelligence people from the U.K.? I mean, this is easy to see what happened here. So obviously, what happened is that Gowdy and the rest of this group go up to the FBI and Rosenstein and Christopher Wray and said, &#8220;Well, look.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When this Papadopoulos guy\u2019s with the Trump campaign and he starts talking about knowing that the Russians have 30,000 emails, what are we supposed to do with that? We had to do something!&#8221; That\u2019s what the FBI\u2019s telling them. Even though the FBI planted the story! Same thing with Carter Page. Carter Page makes a speech in Moscow, and they use that to say, &#8220;Oh, my God, we gotta investigate this guy!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s got contacts with Russia. He\u2019s in the Trump campaign. Oh, my God, he might be&#8230; Oh, my God, the Russians might be using him!&#8221; Those two guys &#8212; and the basis of that, people are accepting the FBI\u2019s explanation of why they needed to spy not on Trump but on&#8230;? Clapper\u2019s absolutely loathsome, phony little explanation for what goes on now has been adopted by Trey Gowdy? That they weren\u2019t spying on Trump, they were spying on the Russians?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-251442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RIH-Russians-HillaryBillObama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RIH-Russians-HillaryBillObama.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/RIH-Russians-HillaryBillObama-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/>(scoffs) Good grief. Let me try to refute that in a couple of ways here. If the FBI was really concerned about Russian meddling, why wouldn\u2019t they have asked about it? Put yourself in the position of the FBI here and let\u2019s make like this is legit. You learn that a peripheral foreign policy person, 24 years old in the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos, is over in London telling people from Australia and everywhere else that he knows that the Russians have thousands of Hillary\u2019s emails. And, by the way, everybody on earth has been looking for \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary had 60,000 emails on her illegal server. She deleted 30,000, she said, and turned over 30,000 to the DOJ. It\u2019s the missing 30,000 we\u2019re talking about here. Nobody knows where they are, but they are somewhere, because nothing is ever fully deleted, even if you use BleachBit, because those emails were backed up in the Cloud somewhere. Somebody has them. But nobody knows who. So you\u2019re the FBI, and you hear this kid Papadopoulos &#8212; sorry, young man Papadopoulos &#8212; is out telling people in London that the Russians have \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>And you say, &#8220;Oh, my God, and he\u2019s in the Trump campaign? Oh, jeez. The Trump campaign no. Oh. Russians! Oh, we\u2019ve gotta look in.&#8221; Why wouldn\u2019t you&#8230;? If you were the FBI, why wouldn\u2019t you go to somebody in the Trump campaign and ask? Why wouldn\u2019t you advise the Trump campaign? Why wouldn\u2019t you go to Trump himself or as close to him as you could get and say, &#8220;Look, one of your people is saying&#8230;&#8221;? Instead, the informants only asked if the Trump campaign had Hillary\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n<p>If the FBI was so concerned, and if they weren\u2019t targeting Trump, they should have told Trump! If they\u2019re really concerned about the Russians infiltrating a campaign, then why not try to stop it? Why not tell Trump? Well, the answer\u2019s perfectly clear, to me. They were running this whole story! They were pushing this scam! If they\u2019re concerned with the Russians infiltrating the Trump campaign, with everything they knew&#8230; Don\u2019t forget, the FBI knew that the Hillary campaign had paid for that dossier!<\/p>\n<p>They knew that it was phony. They knew that it wasn\u2019t real intel, and they took it to the FISA court to get a warrant to spy on people based on it, and they knew it was fake. They knew it wasn\u2019t really Russian intel. But if they still feel&#8230; If after all of that, they still think the Russians actually have infiltrated, then why not put a similar spy in the Hillary campaign? Because, look, everybody thought Hillary was gonna win. At this stage and up to election night, everybody thought Hillary was gonna win.<\/p>\n<p>And the Russians are always going to tamper with the projected winner. They\u2019re not gonna waste time on who everybody thinks is gonna lose. Except if you\u2019re concocting this phony BS that they\u2019re working with the Trump campaign to steal the election, which is not possible. So, there\u2019s no spy or informant in the Hillary campaign, despite that it\u2019s her emails that are missing! And despite the fact that people are saying the Russians have them! Why the hell wouldn\u2019t you have somebody in the Hillary campaign trying to dig and flesh that out?<\/p>\n<p>Why only the Trump campaign? Third. If the FBI was worried about Russian interference, why didn\u2019t they really examine&#8230;? More than just put a spy in the Hillary campaign, why not really examine it, because of the fact they knew that the dossier was put together with the help of Russian spies? If they were so concerned about Russian meddling, why did they offer to pay Christopher Steele $50,000 to pay the Russian government agents for more dirt?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Hillary-Russians-Hack-Election.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Hillary-Russians-Hack-Election.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FB-002-020718-Hillary-Russians-Hack-Election-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Even after the dossier was exposed for what it was, the FBI kept paying Steele! And if they\u2019re worried about Russian meddling &#8212; and this is the big one to me. If they\u2019re worried about Russian meddling, then why didn\u2019t they insist on being able to examine the Democrat National Committee computer network and servers? Because the Democrats are running around &#8212; everybody said the Russians had hacked \u2019em. So why only the Trump campaign? Why only deploy informants, spies, lookouts in the Trump campaign?<\/p>\n<p>Why only try to find Russians in the Trump campaign? Why not try to find Russians in the DNC server? Why not try to find Russians in the Hillary campaign? Because, you see, the FBI and everybody knew they had planted this story with Papadopoulos. Does Gowdy not know this? Or does he know it and reject it? Does he not believe it? And I\u2019m only asking these questions based on what Congressman Gowdy said on CBS today.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Based on what I have seen, I don\u2019t know what the FBI could have done or should have done other than run out a lead that someone loosely connected with the campaign was making assertions about Russia.&#8221; Well, now, that has to be Papadopoulos and his story the Russians had thousands of Hillary emails. He then said, &#8220;the fact that two people who were loosely connected &#8211;&#8221; that\u2019s Page and Papadopoulos &#8220;&#8211; the fact that two people were loosely connected to the Trump campaign may have been involved doesn\u2019t diminish the fact that Russia was the target and not the campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Again, repetition is necessary for people to understand things. George Papadopoulos is minding his own business one day. He\u2019s not doing anything to anybody. He\u2019s 24 years old, he\u2019s a bright guy, got hired by the campaign on the foreign policy team peripherally. He\u2019s never met Trump, maybe for 10 minutes, but is not a close confidant. At this point in time Trump\u2019s foreign policy in his campaign is not even formed yet because Trump\u2019s foreign policy is Trump, so he\u2019s just gotta pick some names to put on a list, and Papadopoulos\u2019 name gets chosen.<\/p>\n<p>And in April of 2016, this kid, Papadopoulos, hears from a professor, Maltese professor and academic named Joseph Mifsud, just out of the blue, who says he wants to get to know him. (imitating Misfud) &#8220;I understand you\u2019re on the Trump campaign, this is great, young man like you, you\u2019re probably going places.&#8221; By the way, have you heard that the Russians, do you guys on the campaign know that the Russians have a whole bunch of Hillary emails? Just throw it in as an inconsequential part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re talking to the young guy, you\u2019re telling him how fortunate he is, how great it is to meet him, like to meet him in person one day, what have you. By the way, you know the Russians have got Hillary\u2019s emails, right? Papadopoulos says, &#8220;What?&#8221; Nothing happens for a couple months, and then he gets the offer from Halper to come to London, deliver a paper, be paid $3,000 for it. Halper says, &#8220;George, you remember the Russians have all those Hillary emails, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Papadopoulos acknowledges being suspicious about it \u2019cause these things come out of the clear blue. And then it\u2019s arranged for Papadopoulos to meet the Australian ambassador, Alexander Downer, and they go to a bar in London and Papadopoulos starts consuming adult beverages, loose lips happen, and he tells the ambassador, starts bragging, &#8220;By the way, the Russians, they got a bunch of Hillary emails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s wanting to sound like a big guy. He thinks he\u2019s got inside information. It\u2019s information that was planted in him. It\u2019s not information the Trump campaign knew. So the entrapment, if you will, is complete. They have snared Papadopoulos. The Australian ambassador calls whoever at the FBI and says, &#8220;Okay. We got it. We got a Trump campaign guy here who just told me last night that the Russians have thousands of Hillary\u2019s emails.&#8221; And that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/05\/18\/the-president-tweets-what-i-told-you-spying-on-trump-scandal-is-bigger-than-watergate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-051418-Trump-Tower-RUSH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-051418-Trump-Tower-RUSH.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-051418-Trump-Tower-RUSH-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>So the FBI then ignores an MI6 and MI5, they ignore the fact that all this was implanted with Papadopoulos, and they report &#8220;Trump campaign aide confirms Russia in possession of thousands of Hillary emails.&#8221; That then is used to open the informant or spy campaign on the Trump campaign? And that\u2019s what Gowdy saw? Says, &#8220;Well, hey, if you see that, I mean, they gotta follow that lead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just me. Remember, it\u2019s the Washington Post and the New York Times who first started writing about this informant. I told you the story when this happened.<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/05\/18\/the-president-tweets-what-i-told-you-spying-on-trump-scandal-is-bigger-than-watergate\/\"> I saw that Washington Post story followed by the Kimberley Strassel column in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, and that\u2019s when I started doing my own digging and discovered the name of informant, Stefan Halper, and how all this with Papadopoulos happened.<\/p>\n<p>But even without that, the questions I asked, if they\u2019re really concerned about the Russians being involved, why not demand the Democrat server, why not put somebody inside the Hillary camp? Why not warn Hillary? Why not warn Trump, hey, be on the lookout, the Russians, we think they\u2019re already inside your campaign, Mr. Trump. None of that happened. Because they want, apparently, to catch all of this happening so that they can associate Trump with it.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Finally, if the FBI, the DOJ, the Obama administration, let\u2019s simplify this. It\u2019s not MI5 and MI6, although they\u2019re tangentially involved. It\u2019s the Obama administration. That\u2019s who\u2019s spying on Trump. That\u2019s who\u2019s trying to interdict the Trump campaign. If they were truly concerned about Russian meddling in the election, why didn\u2019t they do more to stop it instead of just monitor it? It\u2019s a sensible question.<\/p>\n<p>If the Russians are spying, and they know it, which is what they\u2019re trying to convince people of, then why the heck didn\u2019t they try to stop it? Or do anything to stop it, rather than plant somebody in there to monitor it? Look. These answers reveal themselves. I\u2019m asking the questions rhetorically.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Edmond, Oklahoma. This is Vic. Vic, you\u2019re next. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. How are you, sir?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m great. Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-274278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-040918-EIB-Callers-ADJUSTED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-040918-EIB-Callers-ADJUSTED.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-040918-EIB-Callers-ADJUSTED-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>CALLER: Pre-EIB dittos, because I was stationed Edwards many years and I picked you up when you were in Sacramento every once in a while in a while before you actually went nationwide. I told my wife, &#8220;This guy should go nationwide.&#8221; So I\u2019m glad that happened, sir. I\u2019m a little nervous speaking to 40 million people, so I\u2019ll make my point very quick and I\u2019ll get out of your way. I think that Congressman Trey Gowdy &#8212; just a theory here &#8212; is burnishing his credentials to succeed General Sessions as attorney general. I think she\u2019s going the extra mile to get the benefit of the doubt to be overly fair to DOJ and FBI to show good faith and also help him get through confirmation by showing loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, do you&#8230;? You think, then, that Trump is going to get rid of Sessions and nominate Trey Gowdy?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I think so, sir, because Mr. Gowdy has respectfully but very firmly been pushing against Sessions on doing something that really, ethically, he looked at &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, now, that\u2019s true. By the way&#8230; Wait a minute, now. You\u2019re not nervous. You are altogether, man.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, I\u2019m not, Rush. (chuckling) I\u2019m really nervous.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Because the other half &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I want to get out of here! (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, no, no. The other half of the Gowdy story is he\u2019s saying Trump has every right to get rid of Sessions, that Sessions should have never been AG. He\u2019s saying all that, too.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. That\u2019s what gave me the hint, and the fact that he said he didn\u2019t want to be the AG. That\u2019s another point. It\u2019s political-speak that I\u2019m really not interested. He\u2019s gonna do a Paul Ryan and say, &#8220;I really don\u2019t want the job,&#8221; and pretend he\u2019s going in kicking and screaming, but he\u2019s very ambitious. Remember he wanted to be speaker. He knows that\u2019s not gonna happen. AG would be a really good rebound.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, just so I understand your thinking here, you are of the belief that Gowdy attempting to side with the FBI against Trump is actually a ploy to be able to get Gowdy confirmed after Trump nominates him to be AG. And Trump\u2019s in on this, otherwise Trump would blow up and get mad. I mean, why would you nominate this guy who\u2019s undercutting you in public and on the media about whether or not the Russians are spying? So Trump would have to be in on. Trump\u2019s in on it. This is all about getting Gowdy in as AG, \u2019cause he is a tough-as-nails prosecutor. That\u2019s his passion. That\u2019s what Gowdy loves. That\u2019s why he said he was resigning from Congress. There\u2019s not enough action. He wants to go put bad guys away.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Exactly right. You read my mind. That\u2019s exactly right, sir. And, by the way, I was in the&#8230; You and I are about the same age, so we have the same life experiences, except I was born and raised in New York City. I went to the Air Force Academy. But I\u2019m telling you, I really appreciate what you do to put things&#8230; You know, you\u2019re like that&#8230; I\u2019ve been through some surgeries lately. You\u2019re like that specialist of specialists that can say, &#8220;Here\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with your back,&#8221; or, &#8220;Here\u2019s how to cure that cancer.&#8221; I really appreciate your insight on these things because it brings light to things that ordinarily, you know, those of us who are not specialists in this can say, &#8220;Okay. Well, that explains that. That makes sense.&#8221; And of course, most of the time that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happened, you know? So that\u2019s where I\u2019m coming from on this guess, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I greatly appreciate that, more than you know. I take that with great sincerity. I can\u2019t tell you how much I appreciate it. It\u2019s one of the reasons I do this is to be understood. And it\u2019s hard. The spoken word, you can\u2019t go back and listen to it over again like you can if you read something you don\u2019t quite get. You go back and read the paragraph again.<\/p>\n<p>The spoken word, it\u2019s there and gone. Except now, my spoken word is forever at RushLimbaugh.com and on our app. Transcripts are there. But beside that, listening to it, you can\u2019t rewind it. So the fact that you get it, I can\u2019t tell you how much I appreciate that. Thank you so much. That\u2019s Vic in Edmond, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And here\u2019s another thing. If putting an informant in Trump\u2019s campaign was a good thing, like Trey Gowdy is saying &#8212; &#8220;Why, what the FBI did was something any of my fellow citizens would have applauded or appreciated.&#8221; If it was a good thing, then why has the FBI given so many different timelines for when the investigation started? The investigation, we were first told, started July 31, 2016. And then when that blew up, &#8220;Well, it actually happened, you know, when you re&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042018-Comey-Politcal-Hack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042018-Comey-Politcal-Hack.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042018-Comey-Politcal-Hack-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>It began when Brennan sent the CIA up to wherever, and that was back in April. Well, now they\u2019re telling us that they put an informant in the Trump campaign sometime in the early 2016, which is way before July 2016. Comey said the investigation started in July. That\u2019s clearly not right. You\u2019ve got all kinds of people telling different stories about this investigation. It took forever to get the details of the FISA warrants. Why?<\/p>\n<p>If all of this is on the up and up, if all of this is what any of us citizens would applaud the FBI for doing, then why are there so many different variations of the story? Why are there so many different supposed start dates? And then why are there all these redactions in the documents that the House Intelligence Committee wants to see? And if it was all on the up and up, why were Strzok and Sally Yates and Page and so forth&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Why was all that going on? Look, don\u2019t be confused. Trump was spied on. People are lying, and people are stonewalling. And it was the Obama Department of Justice that was doing the authorizations to spy on Trump and his campaign. Do not get bamboozled by any of this. And I still have to tell you: I\u2019m really perplexed here with Congressman Gowdy, who I have&#8230; I\u2019ve admired. And I still do. About Gowdy seeking&#8230; We had a caller from Oklahoma (in case you missed it) mere moments ago.<\/p>\n<p>The theory is that Trump and Gowdy are in on it, that Trump wants to get rid of Sessions, which he\u2019s talking about again yesterday, and Gowdy is gonna be the new AG. He\u2019s a bulldog, he\u2019s a watchdog, and Trump wants him in there. But he\u2019s got some confirmation problems. So Gowdy is going out there appearing to be on the side of the FBI, both to get the support of people inside the FBI, the DOJ, and get confirmed in Congress for his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t think Gowdy would have any problems in the House, but the Senate might be a different story because he was a bulldog on Benghazi. And he went after Hillary Clinton like nobody\u2019s business on Benghazi. And thus that might, therefore, provide some obstacles. But then we have to ask: Is that what Congressman Gowdy wants? Does he want to be the attorney general? When he resigned or announced his resignation\/retirement from Congress, he made it clear that he wants to go back to being a prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s from South Carolina, and he loved it. He loved being a prosecutor, and people who are familiar with his work say that he was awesome, and he wants to get back to it. Well, the AG is not really a prosecutor. The AG doesn\u2019t go to court. He can, but he doesn\u2019t. The underlings do all that. The U.S. attorneys, the assistant U.S. attorneys, the FBI investigators, they do all of that. Now, he\u2019s the executive head of all of it. So I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>Some people think that Gowdy wants a Fox News gig &#8212; and, of course, who doesn\u2019t want a Fox News gig, and who doesn\u2019t want a book deal? You\u2019d be amazed at the number of people whose life ambition, a book deal and a Fox News gig &#8212; and if they got it, it\u2019s nirvana. CBS, he talk about the FBI doing the right things. So I don\u2019t know. Let\u2019s go to some sound bites. We have a couple more with Congressman Gowdy.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is from CBS This Morning. He\u2019s talking to John Dickerson today about the briefing last week at the DOJ, FBI surveillance Trump campaign. Dickerson said, &#8220;You have said, &#8216;I\u2019m even more convinced the FBI did exactly what Americans would want them to do when they got the information they did.\u2019 Why did you say that? How can you be so sure?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-275144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GowdyCBS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GowdyCBS1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GowdyCBS1-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>GOWDY: Well, when the FBI comes into contact with information about what a foreign government may be doing in our election cycle, I think they have an obligation to run it out. I think the FBI if they were at the table this morning they would tell you Russia was the target and Russia\u2019s intentions toward our country were the target. The fact that two people who were loosely connected with the Trump campaign may have been involved, uh, doesn\u2019t diminish the fact that Russia was the target.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, the problem with this is that we can poke so many holes through it. Well, if Russia was the target, why didn\u2019t you stop them? If you\u2019ve known all this time what Russia was doing, why wasn\u2019t it shut down? Of course, the real way to blow this up is (laughing) the Russians were knowingly involved in the Hillary side of things! There was direct consultation with Russians via Fusion GPS, the Perkins Coie law firm, and Christopher Steele.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s undeniable, and there was no concern about any of that! But I am drawn to this statement: &#8220;The fact that two people who were loosely connected with the Trump campaign may have been involved doesn\u2019t diminish the fact&#8230;&#8221; That\u2019s got to be George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, and you know their stories. George Papadopoulos was not loosely connected with Russia. He was loosely connected with the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But he didn\u2019t know anything until allies of the FBI planted a thought in his head about Hillary and her emails being in the possession of the Russians. So it is clear that what the FBI\u2019s doing, I guess&#8230; I mean, we don\u2019t really know. But it\u2019s clear what the FBI\u2019s doing is telling people, &#8220;Well, look. This guy, Papadopoulos, he went out with the Australian ambassador, and he told him that he knew &#8212; and he\u2019s with the Trump California, peripherally or not, and he knew &#8212; that the Russians emails, the Russians had Hillary\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re supposed to&#8230; Gowdy said, &#8220;Oh, my God, really? Somebody in the Trump campaign was actually blabbing about the fact that they knew the Russians had Hillary emails?&#8221; &#8220;Yep!&#8221; He goes, &#8220;Yeah, yep, that\u2019s exactly right.&#8221; &#8220;Well, then I totally understand you trackin\u2019 it down.&#8221; But that\u2019s just&#8230; (laughing) I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t&#8230; I just have a hard time believing that. It\u2019s just difficult because this is what FBI wants everybody to think. This is why Clapper is out there saying, &#8220;No, no, no, no, we\u2019re not spying on Trump. We were trying to find suspicious Russian activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So they\u2019ve admitted they have a spy in there!<\/p>\n<p>Now Gowdy has taken up the Clapper line and is excusing the FBI for it.<\/p>\n<p>But he appears to be doing it with incomplete information or ignoring the real way Papadopoulos was made a part of this. Papadopoulos, look, I don\u2019t know guy. I know he\u2019s been sentenced for lying to the FBI. But what I\u2019m pretty sure of is that he was set up. He was chosen specifically because he was young and peripheral. And he fit the profile, young guy on the move, wants to matter, wants to climb the ladder. The kind of guy who would jump at being one of the few to know a big piece of news. Carter Page, ditto.<\/p>\n<p>And so they feed Papadopoulos with this story the Russians have Hillary\u2019s emails, and at the time, remember, there are 30,000 of them missing, and everybody was looking for them, and Trump\u2019s joking around, &#8220;Hey, Russia, maybe you can find \u2019em and satisfy our media.&#8221; Anyway, that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Gowdy now saying that Trump is correct, same show, CBS This Morning. Norah O\u2019Donnell says, &#8220;The New York Times\u2019 is reporting today that the president berated his Attorney General, and asked him to reverse his decision on his recusal on the Russian investigation. If he did that would that constitute obstruction of justice?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-275145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GowdyCBS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GowdyCBS2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/GowdyCBS2-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>GOWDY: I don\u2019t think so. I think what the president is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward. If I were the president and I picked someone to be the country\u2019s chief law enforcement officer and they told me later, &#8220;Oh, by the way, I\u2019m not gonna be able to participate in the most important case in the office,&#8221; I would be frustrated too. That\u2019s how I read that. There are lots of really good lawyers in the country. He could have picked someone else.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Whoa! Okay. So you go from, &#8220;Hey, yeah, I think the FBI is doing a bang-up job looking for spies in the Trump campaign,&#8221; to, &#8220;No, he\u2019s not obstructing if he doesn\u2019t like the guy that\u2019s in there. President\u2019s expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterwards.&#8221; Which, by the way, is true.<\/p>\n<p>I think Trump\u2019s angst at Sessions is legit, although I do have to pass off to you that there\u2019s a theory out there that some people are desperately hoping is true. And maybe some of you in this audience have heard it and believe it. And I just want to acknowledge to you that I know it. I haven\u2019t mentioned it before.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t put any weight behind this, but there\u2019s a theory being bandied about that Trump jumping on Sessions all the time is an act to make it look like Trump and Sessions don\u2019t like each other, that they\u2019re not getting along and that Sessions is being marginalized, when in fact what\u2019s going on is that Jeff Sessions is building a case to get rid of all of these people. And he and Trump are running one of the best con games that\u2019s ever been run. And at some point in near future, Sessions is gonna let loose with a press conference and indictments that every one of these people causing a problem is going down.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that\u2019s what I call desperate hope. Because people can\u2019t explain. Here\u2019s Sessions, who was the first member of Congress, the first Senator to sign up, eagerly endorse Trump, was out there on the campaign trail, it was largely because of the anti-illegal immigration position that Trump had that Sessions liked.<\/p>\n<p>But now it\u2019s all fallen apart because Sessions recused himself and doesn\u2019t appear to be a warrior attorney general. And so there are people thinking, &#8220;This is an act, this is an act. Sessions is sly like a fox, and he\u2019s gonna come up one of these days and he\u2019s gonna indict.&#8221; I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>I think theories like that, I think they kind of evolve from a desperate desire for the right thing to happen, coupled with total befuddlement over why it isn\u2019t happening. &#8220;Well, it\u2019s gotta be. We just don\u2019t know it,&#8221; comes the theory. But I actually think this frustration with Sessions that Trump has is probably the truth and legitimate. You see Gowdy going on both sides of this. Trump\u2019s great here on one hand. On the other hand, it\u2019s perfectly normal for the FBI to be doing what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Matt, Casper, Wyoming. You\u2019re next. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Rush. Great honor to talk to you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Dittos going back to the TV show and Clinton era. So my point I wanted to get to is Trey Gowdy talked about the FBI doing exactly what his fellow citizens would want them to do. Well, what I\u2019m trying to figure out is what is the end that justifies the means to get there? Because I haven\u2019t seen anything that makes me feel comfortable as a fellow citizen with what\u2019s going on in this investigation or all along in this campaign trail. So as a fellow citizen, I don\u2019t know that I would agree with the FBI doing exactly what I want them to do in this case.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I totally understand. That\u2019s why I\u2019m perplexed. Of course, the way media is portraying this is that Trey Gowdy has single-handedly blown to smithereens Trump\u2019s theory that Spygate is the word to explain this. I mean, that\u2019s the headline that accompanies any report on what Gowdy said, is that Gowdy has blown up or destroyed or ended Trump\u2019s entire theory of this. Because what Gowdy has done is simply justify the FBI\u2019s actions as actions of his fellow citizens would hope the FBI would take.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-275091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-053018-Trump-Nashville.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-053018-Trump-Nashville.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-053018-Trump-Nashville-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Trump knew this, Trump knew that Gowdy had said this last night on Fox,<a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/05\/30\/vintage-trump-rallies-in-nashville\/\"> so at his rally in Nashville he doubled down on it,<\/a> just like he doubled down on animals and MS-13. This is what he does. This is why Trump has so endeared himself. He gets ripped to shreds for something, he doubles down on it, he rams it right back down their throats.<\/p>\n<p>The left is used to being able to silence people. They\u2019re used to being able to scare people, to intimidate people into shutting up, or resigning, or what have you. And Trump just throws the pile of excrement they\u2019re throwing right back at \u2019em. Okay. Thanks much for the call.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Greg in Pensacola. Great to have you, sir. How are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. I just wanted to talk about this whole embedded spy, informant, the whole narrative that it was to somehow protect Trump or was in the best interests. It really strains credulity, especially juxtaposed against how they treated General Flynn. When they had concerns about Flynn and the potential for compromise or collusion, Obama himself warned Donald Trump about that. They sent people from the FBI, CIA, they all had their warnings, and they expressed them explicitly to Donald Trump about General Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>So if they had concerns about Flynn, and they went direct to Trump, why did they handle these situations in a much different manner? But it\u2019s consistent with the Obama administration\u2019s eight years of always having a back door objective to everything they do, whether it was Benghazi, the Fast and Furious, IRS scandals, it\u2019s completely consistent with what they do behind the scenes to accomplish their objective. But the idea that we\u2019re supposed to believe that this was somehow for the benefit is absolutely ridiculous. It\u2019s hard to believe because it\u2019s absolutely not true.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And amen. 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