{"id":279831,"date":"2018-07-19T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=279831"},"modified":"2018-07-23T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:56:11","slug":"trump-shouldnt-criticize-mueller-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/19\/trump-shouldnt-criticize-mueller-really\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Accept That Putin Meddled to Help Trump and Mueller Will Get to the Bottom of It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So there\u2019s Christopher Wray. He\u2019s at the Aspen Idea for skiing and the forum for skiing out there, and he\u2019s saying in addition to the fact that the Russians do not actually try to tamper with our election infrastructure<\/a>, he also said that I don\u2019t think the Mueller probe is a witch hunt. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a witch hunt.<\/p>\n

Grab audio sound bite number 21. My buddy Andy McCarthy\u2019s now a regular Fox analyst. He was on American Newsroom today with Sandra Smith. And her question for Andy was, “Is it a good idea for the president to keep taking aim at Mueller and his investigation?”<\/p>\n

MCCARTHY: No, I think it\u2019s a terrible idea, for two reasons. One, Mueller\u2019s probe is bigger than the president and any sort of suspicion of an espionage conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, which really hasn\u2019t developed any evidence of that we know publicly. What Mueller was assigned was a counterintelligence investigation of Russia\u2019s interference in the election. So when the president takes a shot at Mueller as if it was at that whole investigation, it\u2019s as if he\u2019s attacking that part of the investigation which I think everybody thinks is pretty important, that we get to the bottom of what Russia did.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, I\u2019ve been struggling with this, that it\u2019s pretty important, that we get to the bottom of what Russia did. And I\u2019ll tell you my problem with this as best I can. We already know, we know one heck of a lot about what Russia did, and it\u2019s being ignored. We know a heck of a lot about what Russia did, and nobody is interested in it. We know, for example, everything we need to know about Hillary Clinton and the DNC and the Steele dossier.<\/p>\n

Now, if this bores you, I want you to stick with me on this. Because it\u2019s almost becoming an article of faith conventional wisdom that in order to have credibility as a commentator on this, you must acknowledge the Russians meddled and you must acknowledge that Mueller is a good guy, and you must acknowledge that Mueller\u2019s investigation is worthwhile, and you must acknowledge that criticizing Mueller\u2019s investigation is not useful. And it\u2019s quickly becoming groupthink. It\u2019s becoming conventional wisdom. And what troubles me about it and always has is that there appears to me to be real substantive crime that isn\u2019t being investigated that we know of.<\/p>\n

Let me walk you through just some of the basics. The entire existence of this dossier, it was a created, manufactured, strategic political opposition research document. It was bought and paid for by the Democrat National Committee and the Clinton campaign. It was designed to create opposition research to be used against the campaign of Donald Trump. And guess who helped create it? Russians.<\/p>\n

A retired MI6 spy by the name of Christopher Steele was hired by another bunch of Democrat operatives at Fusion GPS. They hired Steele. Steele then worked as a retired — i.e., no longer credible — agent of MI6 with former Russian intelligence agents that he knew. And they manufactured out of whole cloth a dossier that doesn\u2019t contain any truth in it whatsoever and several demonstrable lies. This dossier then became the centerpiece of an investigation into Donald Trump, not Russia, an investigation into Donald Trump and potential obstruction of justice and potential collusion with Russia.<\/p>\n

This dossier was used to secure a warrant from one of the most powerful, mysterious courts in America, the foreign intelligence services court, and the purpose of the warrant given by that court was to spy at first on a member of the Trump campaign team, Carter Page, and then expanded to include others.<\/p>\n

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So we had something that started out as political opposition research with Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton that eventually finds its way to the FISA court where a warrant or two are granted and then renewed every 90 days granting spying on the Trump campaign and then names of people who were overheard in the spying were unmasked. All of this is happening at the direction of Obama administration officials.<\/p>\n

Now we know that Comey was urged by Clapper to tell Trump about the golden showers aspect of this dossier. Comey reported — he even talked about this — “My assignment was to perform the president about golden showers.” “Did you tell him the source of the dossier?” “No, I didn\u2019t.” “Did you tell him the Clinton campaign paid for it?” “No, I didn\u2019t.” Didn\u2019t occur to me. “Did you tell the president that it was written by a bought and paid for retired MI6 spy with dubious Russian –” “No, no. I didn\u2019t tell him any of that. My assignment was to tell him about the golden showers story.”<\/p>\n

So after Comey on July 7th and again on the 21st tells Trump about this, he then reports back to James Clapper and says, “Mission accomplished.” At that point James Clapper calls CNN and says, “Comey just told the president about the golden showers. You can now run it because it\u2019s a legitimate news story since the president knows.” That same day BuzzFeed publishes the entire dossier admitting none of it\u2019s true, no corroboration, but it\u2019s so important we think you should see it.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how many crimes exist here, but not a single damn one of them is being investigated. And yet we\u2019re supposed to sit here and say, A, the Russians meddled, B, Trump may have been involved, C, the Mueller investigation is entirely legitimate and worthwhile and you better not criticize it otherwise you\u2019re only causing further troubles for yourself, Trump, because this investigation is about far more than you.<\/p>\n

Yeah, Paul Manafort, for crimes the Department of Justice previously passed on that happened years and years and years before Trump even dreamed of running for president. And now that guy is in some kind of solitary confinement in jail, and his defense is being impeded by special counsel restrictions. And yet, slowly but surely we\u2019re being told that the Mueller investigation is absolutely legit, it\u2019s absolutely necessary, because the Russians did meddle. Like I said, it\u2019s become conventional wisdom. Well, the Russians always meddle.<\/p>\n

Christopher Wray today saying they did not meddle in the infrastructure, meaning votes were not changed, no election result was affected. So what is this? To me it remains singularly in the political world of Washington a focused effort to nail Donald Trump, not to find out what the Russians did! But people are say, we gotta find out what the Russians did, we\u2019ve got to find out, and Mueller has got to get to the bottom of it. We must not discredit his investigation.<\/p>\n