{"id":280512,"date":"2018-07-27T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=280512"},"modified":"2018-07-30T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:35:14","slug":"dont-be-concerned-about-michael-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/27\/dont-be-concerned-about-michael-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Concerned About Michael Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019ve gotta deal with something CNN has been doing the past couple of days, CNN and the Drive-By Media. And it\u2019s time to once again interject a little common sense here.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019m sure you know, CNN has been breathlessly reporting that Michael Cohen, all these tapes with Trump and Trump said all these incriminating things and then that Michael Cohen said that Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting that his son took with the Russian honeypot and all of that and that Trump has denied knowing anything.<\/p>\n

\"\"By the way, Cohen doesn\u2019t have any evidence for this. He has literally no evidence, and even CNN\u2019s been forced to admit this. But let me just try to cause you to have no concern about this. Robert Mueller is relying so little on Cohen that he gave that case to the Southern District of New York. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York has the Cohen case, not Mueller. If Cohen had anything that would help Mueller do anything with Trump, he wouldn\u2019t have handed off the case.<\/p>\n

So what Cohen is doing here is trying to get the best deal he can get from the U.S. attorney\u2019s office, Southern District of New York. He\u2019s trying to make it look like he\u2019s got all kinds of dope on Trump and he\u2019d be willing to give it up. But the thing that you have to realize here is very simple. This is not Mueller\u2019s case. He gave it away. He gave it away weeks ago. He transferred anything to do with Cohen to the Southern District of New York like he\u2019s done with pretty much every other charge that he has made in this case. He\u2019s sent it off to some other court, some other jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

The other thing that they\u2019re trying to make hay about is Trump and Mueller all of a sudden interested in Trump\u2019s tweets. It\u2019s preposterous. I don\u2019t know where CNN is getting its information, who\u2019s leaking to them, but Donald Trump has been tweeting since his campaign. The idea that Robert Mueller just now got interested in \u2019em? I mean, if that were true — and it isn\u2019t — but if it were true it would mean that Mueller doesn\u2019t have anything. But the idea that Mueller\u2019s been ignoring these tweets all this time?<\/p>\n

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But about the tweets. The tweets are not evidence. The tweets don\u2019t show anything. They\u2019re nothing more than what Trump\u2019s thinking or saying at the time. There\u2019s nothing actionable in the tweets. This is like trying to say that exit poll results count more than real votes. There\u2019s nothing here.<\/p>\n

In fact, if any of you are still concerned about this, there isn\u2019t going to be an indictment of Donald Trump from the special counsel. The only concern that everybody should have about this is impeachment. That\u2019s where this investigation has always been going. And this investigation\u2019s phony anyway. The Mueller investigation is an offshoot of all of the illegality that took place on the Democrat side and on the Hillary side.<\/p>\n

It is simply to cover up all of that, because, remember, when this campaign began, the Department of Justice, the Democrat Party and everybody in the Obama apparatus had to make sure that Hillary was exonerated of any crimes involving her illegal server and trafficking in classified data, and all of this has been about exonerating her and framing Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

But there isn\u2019t gonna be any indictment of Trump, he hasn\u2019t obstructed justice, he hasn\u2019t colluded, and so all there\u2019s gonna be is a report that\u2019s gonna question Trump\u2019s fitness, maybe his thinking, maybe his reactions, and it will be setting up an impeachment proceeding if the Democrats win the House. And as an ancillary thing, maybe they\u2019re gonna try to once again drive Trump\u2019s approval numbers down.<\/p>\n

But this stuff that CNN\u2019s hyperventilating with today over Cohen, you just need to stop and think, it\u2019s not even Mueller\u2019s case. Oh. And speaking of that. I have a piece here by Julian Zelizer, CNN political analyst. “Trump Sounds Normal in Private. It\u2019s All an Act<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

CNN thinks they figured Trump out. They have been listening to the tapes with Trump on the phone and Trump talking to Cohen. And they have concluded that he sounds normal as anybody else does on the phone. He doesn\u2019t sound crazy. He doesn\u2019t sound mean. He doesn\u2019t sound insane. And so obviously the Trump that appears on TV is acting.<\/p>\n

And you know why he\u2019s acting? Because he knows that you, his supporters, are a bunch of lamebrain idiots that he has to act for. He has to perform in such a way to make you think that he is a continuing victim, that everybody\u2019s out to get him. He has to talk in these mean-spirited, bigoted ways to relate to you. Oh, yeah. That\u2019s CNN\u2019s latest big discovery.<\/p>\n

“Reading anything into a short, grainy tape recording is difficult. But from the moment that CNN\u2019s Chris Cuomo shared one of the Michael Cohen tapes, experts have sliced and diced the audio to figure out exactly what then-candidate Donald Trump knew about a payment to keep his alleged affair with former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal off the front pages.”<\/p>\n

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As an aside, there isn\u2019t even any crime here. You know, Rich Lowry has a piece at National Review, and it\u2019s also an instructive piece in how this stuff doesn\u2019t work,<\/a> why it doesn\u2019t work. He makes the point that I have made over and over again. This stuff that the Democrats have been pulling on Trump would have gotten rid of every Republican candidate or president in the past.<\/p>\n

And one of the reasons the Democrats and the media are frustrated is because they can\u2019t get rid of Trump using the time-honored techniques that they\u2019ve always succeeded with. They were able to destroy Romney. They were able to destroy George W. Bush. They\u2019ve been able to engineer the resignations of Mr. Newt and a bunch of other people in Congress. And what they do doesn\u2019t touch Trump. And they don\u2019t figure it out. They just keep trying to pile on more of the same.<\/p>\n

For example, Lowry says this incident on tape with Trump talking to a fixer about paying off a Playboy playmate would sink anybody, particularly any Republican candidate. Why doesn\u2019t it sink Trump? Well, we\u2019ve been through all the reasons for this. One of Lowry\u2019s explanations is that the bar has been set so low with Trump that no new revelation is gonna shock anybody, not after the NBC Access Hollywood video. And so there just isn\u2019t anything that\u2019s gonna shock anybody. Trump\u2019s already survived numerous such attempts to take him out.<\/p>\n

So something like this, as far as Trump supporters are concerned, there\u2019s nothing new here. No reason to get upset. But I think it\u2019s far more than that. I think not enough credit\u2019s being given to the sophistication of Trump supporters. And it is that it doesn\u2019t mean anything, when compared to what these people think is really important, like saving the country, like growing the country, like saving our culture. Whether Trump\u2019s running around with Playboy playmates is not relevant to them.<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re not gonna allow the media to take another Republican out. There\u2019s also that part. They\u2019re just not gonna sit by and let this happen again. Because it happens every election cycle. The media goes after some Republican or whichever effective public figure they want to target, and somebody\u2019s scalp is usually claimed. They\u2019re not gonna abandon Trump. They\u2019re not gonna let it happen. They\u2019re far more sophisticated this time around than any of these critics realize.<\/p>\n

But I wanted to get the stuff out about Cohen because CNN, once again, is falling all over itself thinking they\u2019ve found the smoking gun, they\u2019ve found the magic bullet. And now with Cohen saying, “Hey, Trump knew about that meeting that Donald Jr. had with the Russian honeypot in Trump Tower.” Trump is on the warpath claiming he didn\u2019t know about it and he\u2019s really letting Cohen have it. And now CNN\u2019s forced to say that Cohen doesn\u2019t have any evidence for the claim. But the bottom line is, it\u2019s not even Mueller\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

Now, you might be saying, “Could he get it back, Rush? Could he get it back?” He\u2019ll work with the SDNY but the point is he gave it away. He\u2019s known about Cohen for who knows how long. The special counsel and his 13 witch-hunt specialists have known all about this. They\u2019ve looked into all this and stuff we don\u2019t even know about that they\u2019ve looked into. They didn\u2019t just decide that Trump\u2019s tweets may hold some gold. They didn\u2019t just decide that Michael Cohen may actually have the smoking gun bullet.<\/p>\n

They long ago concluded that he doesn\u2019t. Otherwise, the case wouldn\u2019t have been passed off to the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just went to the audio sound bite roster, and I found a couple things. My buddy Andy McCarthy was on Fox last night making the same point that I just made about Cohen. Question that was Laura Ingraham last night, “What do you make of this latest claim that Cohen says that President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with” the Russian honeypot?<\/p>\n