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<\/a>So this double standard on recusals is all the evidence you need that this Mueller investigation is about one thing. And it\u2019s about getting Trump. There\u2019s a great piece on it today at The Federalist by Adam Mill. He\u2019s a citizen. He\u2019s a lawyer and he\u2019s a commentator, and he\u2019s written this op-ed piece at The Federalist. \u201cDon\u2019t bother reading the underlying rules on conflict of interest, because there\u2019s only one test that matters: Would the recusal help get Trump?<\/p>\n\u201cThe installation of Matthew Whitaker as the acting attorney general has the recusal pundits barking like shelter dogs in the presence of a trespassing squirrel. In case you\u2019re wondering how the recusal rules work, it\u2019s simply a matter of whether it helps or hurts Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t believe me? See if you can detect a pattern. Since Whitaker might reign in the special counsel, he must be recused, they argue. Similarly, when it appeared former attorney general Jeff Sessions might help Trump, he acceded to demands he recuse himself. But Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is a proven thorn in the president\u2019s side with an obvious conflict of interest, so no demands for recusal there.\u201d<\/p>\n
In fact, there are demands that he become acting AG. Well, he\u2019s already corrupted. He\u2019s already conflicted. And he\u2019s much more than a thorn in Trump\u2019s side. There\u2019s a judge in this case, Rudy Contreras, and he is very friendly with Strzok Smirk and the lawyer, Lisa Page. He was very friendly at the time he was reviewing the FISA warrant applications from Strzok. Nobody required him to recuse. I mean, how in the world can the judge in the FISA court be best friends with the two lawyers submitting a FISA application not recuse on the basis of conflict? But there was no call for him to recuse.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the Trump appointee with authority to consider a search warrant of Trump\u2019s lawyer\u2019s private office was recused, leading to the raid to look for evidence that likely could have been obtained by subpoena. The recusal pundits called for the recusal of newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh because he might side with the president in future cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cYet when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg calls Trump a \u2018faker\u2019 and openly expresses dismay at the prospect of his presidency, she need not recuse. Don\u2019t bother reading the underlying rules on conflict of interest, because there\u2019s only one test that matters: Would the recusal help get Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n
Which then leads to the next obvious conclusion, which we have already arrived at, that this is obviously a partisan witch hunt. And it\u2019s become obvious to me that Mueller has withheld any report or any serious leaking until after the Democrats won the House. That\u2019s what everybody was waiting on. And hoping the Democrats would win the House because that\u2019s gonna facilitate things in a whole lot of ways.<\/p>\n
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\u201cForcing Whitaker to recuse himself from the Robert Mueller probe would \u2018protect\u2019 it by restoring oversight responsibility to Rosenstein.\u201d They desperately want Rosenstein there as the safeguard, as the guardian angel, the protectorate for Mueller. And the strange thing is this seems to be bipartisan.<\/p>\n
\u201cRepublicans have joined the Democrats and the media to knowingly caution against the imprudence of stopping the Mueller \u2018investigation.\u2019 But before we start contemplating tortured recusal arguments, it\u2019s worth asking, \u2018What is Mueller is supposed doing, anyway?\u2019\u201d And why the hell are Republicans supporting it?<\/p>\n
Why the hell is Jeff Flake in there demanding that there be special legislation in the Senate to protect Mueller from being fired before he will participate in votes that confirmed Trump judicial nominees? Why are so many Republicans siding with Mueller? Well, the answer boils down to what the answer to last hour was. Hatred for Trump.<\/p>\n
You know, you can talk all you want about the shenanigans that Democrats are engaging in in Georgia and here in Palm Beach County and down in Broward County, and they are, and it\u2019s dangerous, and it\u2019s threatening, and it has very vast and bad potential, but I\u2019m telling you, folks, the Republican Party is being divided and serious supposed influential members of the Republican Party still aligned against Trump thinking that Mueller\u2019s got the ideas.<\/p>\n
And for a lot of \u2019em it traces back to one thing: What Trump said about McCain. That\u2019s the foundation, and then it builds from there to Trump is a bully, we don\u2019t like Trump\u2019s tweets, we don\u2019t like his personality.<\/p>\n
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I think American men gradually, kind of like frogs in a gradually heating pot of water, I think a lot of American men have been wussified ever so slowly over the course of many years. Wussify, I call it chickification of America. It\u2019s been happening steadily. It\u2019s an offshoot of feminism. And it relies on the fact that men like women and it relies on the fact that men want to be with women, date women, they want to have fun with women, they want to marry women at times. And so the laws of nature are that men will do what\u2019s necessary to be with women.<\/p>\n
Gotta go to museums, read magazines on where you\u2019re supposed to be to meet women and go there. Men will do it. And if you gotta be wussified and if you\u2019ve gotta somehow support some tenet of feminism here or there, you\u2019ll do it. A lot of men do. And I think over the course of years there\u2019s been a wussification of manliness. “Are you telling me that Trump\u2019s tweets and Trump\u2019s bullying, you think that\u2019s what being a man is?”<\/p>\n
No. I\u2019m telling you that saying what you think, being unafraid of the reaction to saying what you think, doing what you believe in with confidence and without equivocation, without having to convene a committee, being firm in your convictions about what\u2019s right and what\u2019s wrong and following them, that\u2019s what\u2019s been wussified.<\/p>\n
Too many people are running around uncertain, not confident, needing affirmation, afraid to be who they are. And when somebody comes along who doesn\u2019t have those fears, is who he is, says what he says, means what he says, backs it up, that then becomes offensive to our sensibilities and threatening at the same time. And that is what is meant by these Never Trumpers and people on the Republican side feeling threatened by Trump\u2019s style or offended by Trump.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re afraid that if they agree with Trump on issues, that they, then, are gonna be thought of the same way Trump is, as some bully, loudmouth, uncouth, rude bull in a china shop. And they want to be thought of as reserved and polite, refined, sophisticated, sharp creases in their slacks and so forth. And they can\u2019t be considered that way if they agree with Trump on issues.<\/p>\n
So they\u2019re kowtowing! They\u2019re kowtowing and capitulating to conventional wisdom to the mob demanding this or that. That\u2019s what\u2019s really going on here. It can\u2019t be issue related. None of these people disagree with Trump on issues: tax cuts, economic growth, being strong with nuclear enemies. They can\u2019t object to any of that.<\/p>\n
The problem they\u2019ve got with that is that they have been advocating for these things all these years and were unable to advance them or implement them. And Trump has come along and proven they\u2019re not necessary to get this stuff done. So they\u2019re doubly angry.<\/p>\n
Then you pile on what he said about McCain during the campaign and so forth, and that\u2019s the root of all this. And while that division is taking place, the Democrats are parlaying whatever efforts they\u2019re engaging in in Georgia and here in south Florida.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Very simply, the Mueller investigation is a political prosecution. And everybody willing to be honest about it would know it, even though they deny it. It is a political prosecution. Donald Trump is being politically prosecuted here. Well, he\u2019s not being prosecuted yet. They\u2019re looking for a crime based on they don\u2019t like Trump or his politics, not on the fact that he\u2019s committed a crime.<\/p>\n
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There isn\u2019t a crime. Specifically no crime was mentioned in naming the special counsel. There isn\u2019t a crime. They\u2019re looking for one based on political differences. It ought to have everybody concerned. But I\u2019ll tell you what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
Everybody involved — Republicans and Democrats — are saying it\u2019s so important to get rid of this guy. We cannot allow outsiders to win like this. We cannot allow somebody that doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing come in and trample everything that we\u2019ve been building since the end of World War II. We\u2019ll fix whatever we break after we get rid of Trump, except they won\u2019t, because precedents get set.<\/p>\n
And once you can appoint a special counsel to start looking into somebody who has not committed a crime, once you can appoint a special counsel to investigate to find a crime simply because you don\u2019t like the politics of the person or you don\u2019t like the fact they won an election, you can\u2019t fix that, you can\u2019t go back, unless you write a specific law canceling it or just get rid of the special counsel law altogether.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not gonna be gotten rid of. It\u2019s a weapon. It\u2019s a brand-new weapon in politics to vanquish an enemy that you can\u2019t beat at the ballot box. It\u2019s not gonna go away. That\u2019s what\u2019s so dastardly wrong about all of this.<\/p>\n
And these people, Jeff Flake and these clowns standing up saying they\u2019re protecting the rule of law. They\u2019re disintegrating it. They are obliterating the rule of law. It simply doesn\u2019t exist! There wasn\u2019t any Russian collusion! And yet every day in the media it\u2019s still referred to as something that literally happened! Outrageous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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