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RUSH: I just got this, so we\u2019re gonna listen to this together. Sound bite 23 just came in.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s James Clapper this afternoon on Bloomberg TV. The cohost is David Westin. Does anybody recognize that name? The former head of ABC News is now a reporter or moderator at Bloomberg TV, the show Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power. David Westin interviewing the former Director National Intelligence, James Clapper, about spies in the Trump campaign. And David Westin says, “The president says that you, James Clapper, admitted there were spies, that you were in charge of spies for the U.S. government. To the best of your knowledge, were there any spies for the U.S. government in the campaign?<\/p>\n

CLAPPER: First about the use of the term “spy,” air quotes, which I have never liked in any event, and it certainly doesn\u2019t apply in this case. And I think the president is referring to remarks I made on, uh, The View, a week or so ago, in which I said actually just the opposite, that this wasn\u2019t spying, certainly not on the campaign. What happened was a far cry from what is normally associated — again air quotes — with the term “spy,” in that this was not a trained case officer. He did not employ clandestine tradecraft. There was no recruiting. There was no attempt to hide his identity. This is the most benign form of information gathering that, uhhh, you can come up with. So no, as I would think of the term “spying” as it\u2019s normally applied, no. And that\u2019s what I, uh, said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, they are running for cover like rats now, because he\u2019s now contradicting himself. He has said, “Spying — although I don\u2019t like to use the word ‘spying.'” But he said, “It was okay, we were trying to protect the president. We were not spying on the campaign; we were looking for Russians.” To which the obvious retort is: Well, if the Russians where everywhere, why didn\u2019t you have a spy or a lookout in the Hillary campaign?<\/p>\n

And if you thought that there was collusion, why didn\u2019t you warn Trump? Why didn\u2019t you warn Trump when he hired Manafort, if you had news that Manafort was a bad guy? Why didn\u2019t you warn Trump? These guys are trying to bring Trump down. Folks, do not forget what this is. All of this is just strategy, technique, philosophy, whatever. The thing driving this is a refusal to accept the outcome of the election, a refusal to accept election results.<\/p>\n

These people all thought Hillary was gonna win in a landslide; they\u2019ve built this mantra that the Russians stole the election, colluded with Trump, maybe. Trump is now obstructing justice to keep everybody from finding this. There\u2019s no evidence of any of this, and now Clapper\u2019s out there contradicting himself. One week after saying one thing, he\u2019s now saying another. Now there wasn\u2019t a spy. Now the name wasn\u2019t hidden and the spy didn\u2019t recruit.<\/p>\n

The spy most certainly did recruit! This investigation supposedly had two beginnings. The first begin they told us was the Steele dossier. The Steele dossier, when they… At the point in time where everybody thought it was legitimate intel, before we knew that it was nothing more than Hillary Clinton campaign oppo research, then they presented it to Trump. And remember how that happened. This is January 2017, before Trump\u2019s inaugurated. There was a meeting in the Oval Office: Comey, Clapper, Brennan.<\/p>\n

It is decided in that meeting that Trump is going to be told about the golden showers story but nothing else. He\u2019s not gonna be told where the story comes from, he\u2019s not gonna be told who paid for it, he\u2019s not gonna be told that it\u2019s Clinton opposition research. So Comey is dispatched to Trump Tower where he tells Trump of the golden showers story. In Comey\u2019s words, “mission accomplished.” He tells Clapper it\u2019s all done.<\/p>\n

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Clapper then calls CNN and says, “Okay. You can run with the dossier story because the president has been informed of the golden showers aspect of it.” Four days later, January 10th, CNN runs the story as though they ferreted it out with good, old-fashioned shoe leather journalism. When in fact they were complicit in this and had been fed the story by James Clapper and the Obama administration. And then about a year later, CNN gets a massive, massive journalism award at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner for this story.<\/p>\n

All of it made up. All of it complicit. Then we all learned the dossier was illegitimate. We learned the dossier was manufactured by Christopher Steele, having been paid by the Clinton campaign, and we knew that none of it was verified. So they dropped that. And then they said no — and this is all New York Times anonymous sources. Then the second version was, “Uh, uh, no. The dossier is not what got us going on this. No.<\/p>\n

“What got us going was this kid Papadopoulos, this guy in the Trump campaign who was running around saying that the Russians had some very damaging dirt on Hillary.” Well, I\u2019ve told you 15 different times in 15 different ways how that happened, how that news was implanted with Papadopoulos starting first by Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese academic. And the original story had Maltese professor Mifsud telling Papadopoulos that the Russians had Hillary emails<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then Stefan Halper hires Papadopoulos, brings him to London to do a speech, pays him three grand, says, “Hey, George, remember the Russians have all that stuff on Hillary?” After that, Papadopoulos has a meeting at a bar in London with the Australian ambassador and gets drunk, at which time he tells the Australian ambassador that the Trump campaign knows that the Russians have a bunch damaging stuff on Hillary. There\u2019s a bunch of emails.<\/p>\n

And the New York Times ran with that as the beginning of the investigation, July 31st, 2016. Well, that has now totally fallen apart. On Friday, we learned that Papadopoulos never used the word “emails” talking to anybody. He never said that the Russians had Hillary emails. They could be two versions. They could Hillary\u2019s emails from her server or from the DNC server that was hacked. It was never specified but moot because Papadopoulos never said that the Russians had emails, just dirt, some damaging dirt on Hillary.<\/p>\n

\"\"Later on Friday we learn from Byron York<\/a> that Australian ambassador says, “Papadopoulos didn\u2019t get drunk. Neither did I. We both had one drink, and the word \u2019emails\u2019 never happened.” So the original reporting in the New York Times on both of these beginnings — the Steele dossier and the Papadopoulos — all of it is bohunk, folks. All of it has now blown up in their faces!<\/p>\n

Everything that was reported in the New York Times — Papadopoulos getting drunk, passing on this information that the Trump campaign knew about Russian possession of Hillary emails — none of it has held up except the stuff that has held up is Papadopoulos meeting with Mifsud, meeting with Halper, and now meeting with the Australian ambassador. Now here comes Clapper. And Clapper is saying, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Uh, we weren\u2019t spying. We were protecting.”<\/p>\n

Now today, Clapper says, “We weren\u2019t even spying. This is the least of the least of anything. There was no. clandestine tradecraft. There was no recruiting, no attempt to hide his identity. This is the most benign form of information gathering that you can come up with.” He\u2019s still admitting, FBI and intelligence agencies were information gathering on the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

It is all falling apart. The principals are running for cover. The New York Times and Washington Post have run stories on the spy! Is Clapper gonna tell us now that the New York Times and Washington Post got it wrong a third consecutive time? Because they laid out the details of the spy. They did everything but identify the guy.<\/p>\n

They described what the spy was doing. So Clapper\u2019s now saying the New York Times is wrong, the Washington Post, he\u2019s not using those words, but his meaning clearly is that everything we\u2019ve seen in the New York Times and the Washington Post about the origins of this and the details are now no longer operative.<\/p>\n

Why is this happening? Well, I don\u2019t know. I can only guess. But it\u2019s because it\u2019s falling apart. Not one single story has maintained its integrity. Every story involving unnamed former and current government employees, anonymous sources, all of it, has fallen apart.<\/p>\n

And now you\u2019ve got some people running for the tall grass because of the IG report coming out and Clapper doing practically a 180-degree turn from his most recent statements acknowledging a spy, although not liking the word, and saying the spy was not spying on Trump; it was looking out for Russian activity. The obvious question, “Well, why not help the Trump campaign?”<\/p>\n

If he\u2019s really concerned about the integrity of this election, then why not tell Trump when he hires Manafort, when he hires Carter Page? If these two guys, red flags in the FBI, CIA system, why not tell Trump? Why let him hire them? And why spy on these people? Because, my friends, they were playing both ends against the middle.<\/p>\n

While they thought Hillary was gonna win, they at the same time were doing their best to destroy Trump\u2019s campaign. And then after he shocked everybody and won, it became let\u2019s destroy Trump\u2019s presidency by essentially running a silent coup, and the silent coup is convincing everybody the election was illegitimate. And that\u2019s what this is all rooted in, based on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We have Richard here, St. Louis. Richard, thank you for calling. Great to have you with us, sir.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Thank you very much for taking my call. And it\u2019s been a pleasure listening to you for the last 30 years or so on the radio, expressing my views and opinions for me and hopefully millions and millions of others.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Happy to do it, sir. Thank you very much. Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hope it\u2019s not a coincidence, you know, we\u2019re both southeast Missouri conservatives and actually distant cousins, but that there are many millions that don\u2019t listen to you that have the same opinion. Because this whole thing, you know, you\u2019re absolutely on point that this whole thing about Trump collusion is to get rid of the Trump president. Not only the leftists or the Democrats, it\u2019s the entire political establishment.<\/p>\n

Ex-general Michael Hayden, whose an acolyte of presidents Bush, Clinton, and Bush, was on the radio in St. Louis this morning hawking his new book about the assault on the intelligence community and other institutions. And it\u2019s actually an anti-Trump book. And Hayden is not a leftist or Democrat, according to his history. But the point is that the host on that show did not — he asked for callers, and I really tried to call in. I was gonna ask Hayden who should have voted — He couldn\u2019t understand why the people in Pittsburgh voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, my question is, if he\u2019s got a book on attacking the intelligence agency, who\u2019s destroying the intelligence agency? Was he trying to lay that off on Trump? Is that what they\u2019re trying to do because of Trump\u2019s tweets? The intelligence community here — let\u2019s do some recent history. Can we dare go back to the Iraq war? Do I dare venture back there? Well, let\u2019s go back.<\/p>\n

George Bush spends a year and a half traveling this country, building up support from the American people for an invasion of Iraq on the basis that — not that they had anything to do with 911, although they did peripherally, but that they were developing weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence community in the United States was joined by the intelligence community of the U.K. and all of our west European allies.<\/p>\n

\"\"And they all unanimously confirmed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. And they sent the then secretary of state Colin Powell to the United Nations with spy satellite photos to show these weapons of mass destruction. We went to war on the basis of these intelligence community reports coupled with the desire of George W. Bush to do this. And we found no weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

Now, there were those who said, “They were there. They\u2019ve just been moved by truck over to Syria or they\u2019ve been hidden.” And some tiny vestiges of some chemical weapons have been found, but nowhere near the massive stocks that we were told. And that led to the near impeachment of George W. Bush in his second term. That led to George W. Bush being hated and reviled with an approval rating barely at 30% at the midpoint of his second term where he was then being accused of torture, we had the photos from Abu Ghraib, all of this traced to the intelligence community.<\/p>\n

Well, if I didn\u2019t know it any better, I\u2019d say they might have had it in for George W. Bush, even though his dad used to run the intelligence community as the head of the CIA. I didn\u2019t think any of this back then. Back then I was joining the chorus and saying, “Hey, the intelligence community, they thought they had it right,” and I was defending them by saying they all were unanimous in this. U.K., Germany, you name it, European Union, CIA, DIA, NSA.<\/p>\n

But now — okay, well, I don\u2019t know how you view it in hindsight. But now the Russians were tampering in the 2016 election, and somehow they couldn\u2019t stop it. We\u2019re investigating Donald Trump and his campaign because it might have happened, they couldn\u2019t stop it, they had spies, they had an informant, a human resource agent, as Comey says in the Trump campaign, and they\u2019ve been on the lookout, all this Russian collusion, they ignored the Russians involving with Hillary.<\/p>\n

I guess they thought that wasn\u2019t any big problem. They\u2019ve been desperately looking for Russians all over the Trump campaign, and damn it, folks, they can\u2019t find any. The Russians must have pulled this off right under the noses of our intelligence agency because they have told us that the Trump colluded, the New York Times, Washington Post, CIA, DIA, CNN, MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, you name all these pukes, and they\u2019ve told us and they\u2019ve trying to make as many people as possible believe the Russians stole this election. And Trump may have been in on it. And Trump Jr. might have been in on it. And Michael Flynn might have been in on it. And Melania, we haven\u2019t heard from her in three weeks, what was her role in it?<\/p>\n

But the bottom line is, they weren\u2019t able to stop it. Anybody ever thought to look at it that way? I mean, they\u2019ve been spying, they\u2019ve been looking, they\u2019ve been telling us for a year and a half the Russians, the Russians are coming, the Russians were there, the Russians are here. Meanwhile, there aren\u2019t any except that fat Ambassador Kislyak was everywhere, but there aren\u2019t any other Russians. All the Russians are over there with the Clintons and Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS and the Perkins Coie law firm.<\/p>\n

\"\"And there\u2019s a couple of communists in the intelligence community in the U.K., and they\u2019re with the Democrats. So I\u2019m confused. Hayden\u2019s written a book claiming the intelligence community\u2019s under assault I assume by Trump. But who\u2019s actually doing the damage? For a year and a half, the Russians might have, probably were, colluding, the Russians hacked, there\u2019s no question. How many times have we heard from everybody, no question the Russians attempted to game this election?<\/p>\n

No proof, folks, no proof. No proof. Supposition, assumption. No proof. Everybody thinks it happened. If you want to count in the mainstream of the Washington establishment you have to agree and say, “Oh, yeah, of course the Russians tried to hack.” Well, notice there isn\u2019t any evidence for it, and if it\u2019s so the damned obvious, then why didn\u2019t anybody stop it? And why isn\u2019t anybody claiming credit for it?<\/p>\n

And the reason is, they want you to think the Russians stole the election working with Trump because they can\u2019t stand the outcome of the election. So they\u2019re trying to overturn it by getting rid of the guy who won. In the meantime, they\u2019re not making themselves look good. They know the Russians are doing X, Y, and Z and at no point were they able to stop them? How does that work?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think it\u2019s time we turn this around on \u2019em, folks. For a year and a half we\u2019ve had to sit here and listen to a bunch of bogus allegations that Trump cheated, that Trump worked with Russians, our enemies, that Trump was traitorous. They have tried to tell us that Trump was traitorous, his family is traitorous, they were working with the Russians to steal the election from the duly intended winner, Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019ve told us this for a year and a half, and every major news institution they\u2019ve got. Well, it\u2019s time to turn it around and say, “Why didn\u2019t you stop it, if you knew this was happening?” In addition to the intelligence communities not getting it right about weapons of mass destruction, look what the Democrat Party tried to do to destroy the CIA and others over waterboarding, over torture.<\/p>\n

\"\"During the second term of the George W. Bush administration, everything to do with the foreign policy and intelligence community was under assault by the American left and the Democrat Party. Now all of a sudden Donald Trump wins the election, and the Russians are everywhere. Except there aren\u2019t any Russians. And the FBI has spies, except we don\u2019t like the word “spies,” so we\u2019ve got informants. Except we don\u2019t like the word “informants,” so we\u2019ll say “human resource agent.”<\/p>\n

And then we say it wasn\u2019t clandestine except Trump didn\u2019t know the guy was there. Trump didn\u2019t know these people were there, but the Clapper and Brennan boys are all, “Oh, it was all on the up and up.” Well, okay, then. Trump is destroying the intelligence community, eh? That is laughable. The truth is, James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, could not stop the Russians. John Brennan, Director of CIA, could not stop the Russians. We know they weren\u2019t stopped because they\u2019re still telling us the Russians colluded. They just haven\u2019t found the evidence yet.<\/p>\n

Well, how incompetent are these people? If they know Trump did it, why the hell can\u2019t they find the evidence? Why can\u2019t they prove it? And I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re not gonna manufacture some, by the way. Until Mueller\u2019s report comes out — these people are not engaged in this just to write a report that says, “Nothing to see here, folks. It\u2019s been fun and we\u2019ll check in next time.” This report\u2019s gonna have something in it.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t impeach Trump. They\u2019re not gonna be able to get the Senate to vote him, so they\u2019re gonna have to try to do something else to cause people to lose faith in Trump, which would then permit the overturning of the 2016 election results.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see. Clapper couldn\u2019t find the Russians. Brennan at the CIA couldn\u2019t stop the Russians. James Comey couldn\u2019t stop the Russians despite all of his memos and despite his desire that there be a special counsel to look into it. James Comey, the almighty, could not stop the Russians. What a bunch of failures they all were.<\/p>\n

Andrew McCabe could not stop the Russians. Peter Strzok and Lisa Page could not stop the Russians, even though he was one of the top FBI counterintelligence people. Loretta Lynch could not stop the Russians. Bill Clinton could not stop the Russians. Hillary Clinton could not stop the Russians. Everybody knew the Russians were out there trying to take from Hillary what was rightfully hers, and not a single one of them could prevent the Russians from stealing the election?<\/p>\n

And so now we have to continue to endure a bogus, BS, so-called investigation to try to find the evidence of this, when, after a year and a half of spies and using the U.K. intelligence community in Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Yale and the best and the brightest, they still couldn\u2019t find anybody except the fat Kislyak Soviet ambassador — I\u2019m sorry — Russian ambassador.<\/p>\n

\"\"Maybe it\u2019s time we need a bunch of new people at the FBI. Maybe we need some new competent people at the CIA, the DIA, the NSA, and wherever the hell else A that we have spies looking for Russians, because this current crop can\u2019t find any. They haven\u2019t been able to stop the Russians from hacking the DNC server. They haven\u2019t been able to stop the Russians from getting Hillary\u2019s emails off of her server. They haven\u2019t been able to stop the Russians from stealing our election. What good are they?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back one thing. We had a sound bite earlier of James Clapper. I don\u2019t want to replay the whole thing. I want to just quote from one thing he said. He was on some TV network today, and he said (summarized), “No, no, no. We didn\u2019t have a spy — and — and we made no attempt to hide his identity.” They say that now even though we only learned about this spy three weeks ago thanks to the Washington Post, New York Times. “But — but — but we made no attempt to hide his identity.” What?<\/p>\n

Did this guy walk up to Trump and say, “Hi! Hi, I\u2019m Stefan Halper. I\u2019m an intelligence gatherer here. We\u2019re looking for Russians in your campaign. We\u2019re not here to spy on you. We\u2019re here working with the FBI to make sure the Russians do not get involved in your campaign.” Did that ever happen? Of course it didn\u2019t! What do you mean, “no attempt to hide his identity”? They sure as hell did make all kinds of efforts to hide what they were doing!<\/p>\n

Not just hide the identity of Stefan Halper, but Strzok and Page. Everybody involved in this was trying to hide what they were doing, \u2019cause they thought they were gonna pull it off. They were the ones doing the spying. They were the ones doing the colluding. They were the ones doing the tampering, while trying to make it appear like the Russians were involved in this campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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