{"id":292660,"date":"2018-11-21T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=292660"},"modified":"2018-11-26T15:47:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:47:42","slug":"mueller-is-investigating-trumps-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/11\/21\/mueller-is-investigating-trumps-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller Is Investigating Trump\u2019s Russia Joke!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, we\u2019re gonna get into the news of the day, and some of it is just silly. I mean, it\u2019s silly to the point of being depressing. The New York Times with a supposed blockbuster story that Trump wanted to investigate Hillary Clinton and Comey. Well, damn it, they should be! Especially Hillary Clinton should be! This thing going on with Mueller is one of the biggest travesties… In fact, it is. It is the biggest travesty of my lifetime, this entire thing. You know what we\u2019ve learned about this? You know Trump had to submit written answers to questions that this Mueller submitted, and you know what Mueller\u2019s looking at?<\/p>\n

We know this because Rudy granted an interview to Axios (a Millennial journalist enterprise) and you know what Mueller is interested in? You know what Mueller wanted answers to? When Trump cracked a joke, “Hey, Russia! If you\u2019re listening, maybe you can find the emails that the media can\u2019t find of Hillary\u2019s — and, if you do find \u2019em, hand \u2019em over.” A flat-out joke! He was mocking the fact that Hillary\u2019s emails were “missing” and that nobody knew where they were — when, of course, Hillary knew where every damn one of them was because she was the one that deleted \u2019em and hid them!<\/p>\n

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This Mueller clown actually thinks that Trump was asking the Russians to hack Hillary\u2019s computers! This is beyond my ability to comprehend this. This culture, this society has lost all sense of any kind of adult sense of humor. It is just beyond me that this is actually what Mueller was focusing on in his written questions to the Trumpster. Holy smokes! This whole thing… I\u2019ve been over this I can\u2019t tell you how many times.<\/p>\n

This guy Mueller is running around with preening arrogance thinking he\u2019s the most important savior of whatever the hell needs to be saved in Washington, ignoring crime after crime after crime after crime committed by Hillary Clinton and Comey and the Democrats and the FBI and the DOJ and everybody else tied to Obama! Just ignore all of that real collusion, real election rigging, and go looking after something that hasn\u2019t happened, didn\u2019t happen — therefore, cannot be found — that Trump supposedly did!<\/p>\n

If I were Trump, I would have lost my mind over this. I would not have been able to keep my mouth shut about this for as long as he has. They put spies in his campaign! They were trying to find evidence! In fact, they were trying to coerce criminal activity among people in the Trump campaign by having FBI and CIA embedded spies! During the campaign. We haven\u2019t gotten a straight story about what really triggered the investigation in the first place. (interruption)<\/p>\n

No, do not doubt me. I have the audio sound bites to prove this coming up. I mean, this is what Rudy Giuliani says that Mueller wants to know. That\u2019s what he asked Trump about in his written questions. (scoffs) I can\u2019t tell you the number of times over the course of my sterling broadcast career that I have cracked jokes and done bits exactly like that. Trump has this ability to mock his critics and to make fun of them and expose their phoniness and their lies, and I\u2019ll tell you this: I think some of these people really don\u2019t get the humor.<\/p>\n

I think some of these numskulls really do think that Trump was asking Russia to hack Hillary Clinton. When I saw that poll the other day from YouGov and The Economist, that 42% of the American people literally think the Russians tampered with ballots in 2016? Folks, do you know if that has happened, Trump would be in jail by now! This investigation would have lasted however long it took to determine that. Yet that\u2019s what “collusion” has come to mean.<\/p>\n

The media is responsible for this. The Democrat Party is responsible for this. They put the word “collusion” out, and they still talk about this as though it happened when there\u2019s not a shred of evidence. It is bigger than a travesty. It is bigger than an outrage. I don\u2019t know the word to use to describe how ridiculous, dangerous, and whatever else this is. But I don\u2019t want to talk about all that right now, even though I just did. I had to get it off my chest. I can\u2019t…<\/p>\n

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I literally have run out of adult ways to contain my emotion over this. Andy McCarthy\u2019s out there on TV today saying, “Well, yeah, I think the collusion aspect of the investigation is winding down.” He thinks that because all these innocent people that are being sentenced… Mike Flynn, who didn\u2019t do a thing, is gonna be sent to prison after having his family ruined and his personal wealth wiped out. McCarthy says, “Well, if they\u2019re gonna go ahead and sentence him before using him in whatever he\u2019s got to try to nail Trump, it must mean they\u2019re winding down.”<\/p>\n

But Andy thinks that while the collusion stuff (i.e., Russian tampering with the vote machines) is winding down, Mueller is still full speed ahead on obstruction. Then the New York Times has this story out there that Trump was thinking about — thinking! Thinking is a crime! He was thinking about indicting or pursuing Hillary and Comey. But he didn\u2019t! We have a story that has occupied cable news all day about what Trump was thinking of doing.<\/p>\n

But he didn\u2019t do it, did he? So what\u2019s the story? We don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s true! I don\u2019t know how many of these people live inside Trump\u2019s head to know what he\u2019s thinking. But it\u2019s a big story. “Trump was thinking…” And then they went, they\u2019ve got and talked to Don McGahn, who was the White House counsel and he\u2019s telling the New York Times, “Yeah, I told Trump that if you investigate Clinton, and if you investigate Comey, it\u2019s grounds for impeachment.” This is Trump\u2019s own lawyer telling him this!<\/p>\n

So I guess it\u2019s okay for the entire United States government not in power to investigate Donald Trump from every which direction they want, but Trump can\u2019t turn around as candidate or as president and investigate people who literally committed crimes trying to destroy him! What kind of two-way street…? But I don\u2019t want to talk about all this right now. Ha-ha-ha.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites because I mentioned earlier Rudy Giuliani gave an interview to Axios in which he listed the two subjects that Mueller asked Trump about in the ongoing witch-hunt investigation. The first was the Trump Tower meeting that was conducted by Donald Trump Jr. But the second area of questioning that Mueller had for Trump (these are the written questions submitted) were related to the joke that Trump made about the Russians and Hillary\u2019s emails. A joke. A joke.<\/p>\n

\"\"The special counsel actually, like the rest of the media and the Democrats, think that Trump was asking Putin to hack Hillary. Stop and think of this. The special counsel — this preening, arrogant, whatever else you want to call him — Robert Mueller is running around spending millions of dollars investigating a joke. We went back, you know, Mueller has indicted all kinds of Russians that he never expected to show up and face trial. That\u2019s why they were indicted, just so that Mueller can somehow make the appearance all of a case that Russians colluded and tried to tamper with the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

But these are indictments that are never, ever intended to see one day of trial.<\/p>\n

So I want to go back to me on this program, July 16th, this past summer, 2018<\/a>…<\/p>\n

BEGIN ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mueller does not say this in the indictment and you can infer it and it leads me to believe that Mueller intended it to be inferred. The Drive-Bys say that the Russian hacking… Are you ready for this folks? The Russian hacking of the DNC server began later on the same day Trump asked Russia to look for Hillary\u2019s emails. They actually think that we\u2019re gonna fall for this!<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s cracking a joke about, \u201cHey, Russia…\u201d Everybody\u2019s looking for Hillary\u2019s missing 30,000 emails. Everybody knows they\u2019re somewhere, and the media\u2019s going nuts trying to find out where they are, what happened… Well, the media isn\u2019t, but some people are. So Trump… I think he was at a press conference in Miami, if I\u2019m not mistaken, but doesn\u2019t matter where he was.<\/p>\n

But in typical Trumpian humor fashion (impression), \u201cRussia! Hey, Russia, if you\u2019re listening, maybe you can find the missing 33,000 Hillary emails that everybody\u2019s looking for.\u201d This indictment claims that the Russian hacking began on that very day. So it\u2019s left for the Drive-Bys to infer that Mueller is reporting that Trump\u2019s request of Russia to look for the emails was seen as a green light by Russia to start hacking! (laughing)<\/p>\n

END ARCHIVE CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: I could barely contain myself that day. Mueller actually tried to make the case that the Russian hacking began when Trump cracked the joke, and that\u2019s what his indictments attempted to say. This is such… This is so rigged, this is so gamed, it is so made up, it is such a travesty. This guy\u2019s preening around, trading off his reputation as the most honorable man in Washington with unapproachable integrity and so forth. What an absolute crock. Here is what Trump said. It was July 27, 2016. He was down in his resort in Miami called Doral…<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I will tell you this: Russia, if you\u2019re listening: I hope you\u2019re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let\u2019s see if that happens.<\/p>\n