RUSH: Here\u2019s Marianne in southwest Pennsylvania. Great to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush. I\u2019ve enjoyed your show for so many years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: First time I ever got to call in. I have a question. I seem to remember — with the Paul Manafort money deal offshore thing that they\u2019re accusing him of — didn\u2019t Charlie Rangel have some kind of a money problem offshore with the IRS and so forth?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh-ho! (Snort!) He had on-shore money, offshore money, a different bank account. Hell! You\u2019re absolutely right. Your memory is spot on with this. Yes, he did. He even had a share of a condo down in the Dominican Republic. They caught him asleep on the beach in his swim trunks one day. Oh, it was a… I\u2019m telling you, Marianne, it was not a pleasant sight.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: He was on the beach out in front of one of these condos. Yeah, he was squirreling away money left and right. You\u2019re exactly right. They didn\u2019t do anything to him \u2019cause he\u2019s… They just didn\u2019t do anything to him.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The only reason they\u2019re going after Manafort is the DOJ… Marianne, do you know that these charges aren\u2019t new? The Department of Justice some time ago looked at all of this and decided to not pursue it. This would not be happening if Manafort had not worked for Trump for a hundred days. Mueller has to have something to show for all of this investigation, and he\u2019s been hoping Manafort would flip. By the way, an update on the trial.<\/p>\n
Rick Gates, who was to be the star witness (he flipped on Manafort), has finished his prosecution testimony, and the cross-examination of him is gonna begin this afternoon. That could be interesting. The judge in this case, T. S. Ellis, has no tolerance for these prosecutors. He continues to upbraid them. Yesterday, he got mad that the prosecutor wasn\u2019t looking at him during the motion. He said, “Look at me!”<\/p>\n
He has really given these guys grief, because he knows what this is. He told Mueller in a pretrial hearing, “You don\u2019t care about this guy. You\u2019re just using this guy to get Trump. I know what\u2019s going on here in my courtroom.” He also knows that many of the prosecutors on Mueller\u2019s team have ties back to Enron task force, and that bunch of lawyers from the DOJ was upbraided and investigated for misconduct. So he\u2019s very aware what\u2019s happening here, and the jury is hearing much of what he\u2019s saying to \u2019em.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s not sending the jury out before he upbraids the prosecutors.<\/p>\n
So this could be fascinating to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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