{"id":292962,"date":"2018-11-27T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=292962"},"modified":"2018-11-29T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:40:46","slug":"i-think-manafort-refusing-to-make-things-up-for-muellers-hitjob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/11\/27\/i-think-manafort-refusing-to-make-things-up-for-muellers-hitjob\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think Manafort Is Refusing to Make Things Up for Mueller\u2019s Hit Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Well, well, well, if anybody doubts the political nature of the Mueller investigation, all you have to do is take a look at the news today. For crying out loud, they really want us to believe that Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange three times before WikiLeaks published the Podesta emails?<\/p>\n

\"\"Where\u2019s this story been? If this were true, they would have known this all the way back when Obama and his buddies were spying on the Trump campaign. And we would have heard about this long before today. So what the heck is going on?<\/p>\n

Greetings, my friends, and welcome. Here you are tuned to the most listened to radio talk show on earth and on Mars. The Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB Network, 800-282-2882. Send an email, ElRushbo@eibnet.us.<\/p>\n

For crying out loud. Now the media salivating, barely able to keep its pants up here because they think they\u2019ve got some brand-new revelation. There\u2019s two things about Manafort. Manafort is said to have lied after reaching a plea deal with Mueller and his Trump-hating prosecutors. So that Manafort\u2019s plea deal is now out the window, because what you do when you make a plea deal, you have to tell the truth about everything. And I don\u2019t think Manafort\u2019s been lying about anything. What Manafort\u2019s refusing to do is to compose evidence, make it up!<\/p>\n

I tell you, folks, I\u2019m so tarnished here by what has happened to our Department of Justice ever since Trump announced his campaign for presidency that I do believe we have a two-tier justice system, and I don\u2019t believe anything coming out of this bunch here, the Mueller investigation and people involved in it. Paul Manafort had nothing to do with anything.<\/p>\n

All of this is designed to create a political climate where Trump can be pressured, where the Democrats can make a foundation for impeachment. That\u2019s all that\u2019s going on here, because they don\u2019t have any evidence that Trump colluded. They\u2019re ignoring the evidence of real collusion that took place here, as you know, between Hillary Clinton and the rest of the people on that side, Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele. All of that is being ignored.<\/p>\n

Manafort was with the campaign two or three months, and now all of a sudden Manafort has become the focus? And this, of course, is allowing the media to say, “This should make Trump really, really nervous. Now that Manafort lied, Manafort\u2019s lying to the prosecutor.” I don\u2019t believe Manafort\u2019s lying to the prosecutor. I think the prosecutor is asking Manafort to say a bunch of things that he won\u2019t say. I think Manafort\u2019s resisting the pressure.<\/p>\n

Look, we know from the Enron trials, we know from the Enron task force that these people were — we know from the Ted Stevens trial that some of the very lawyers on those cases are on Mueller\u2019s team, and they were suborning perjury from their own star witnesses against Ted Stevens. The case was eventually thrown out. These people ought not even be practicing law anymore. They ought not be part of the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

\"\"The idea that they wouldn\u2019t force using all the power they\u2019ve got, Manafort, to make things up or to compose evidence. And if Manafort\u2019s refusing to do it, then this is exactly what I would think would happen. \u201cHe\u2019s lying to us. We\u2019re gonna revoke the plea deal. To hell with Manafort.\u201d They\u2019re trying to break him.<\/p>\n

Now This News in the U.K. Guardian that Manafort met three different times with Julian Assange in the Ecuadoran embassy in the U.K. That news just hit this morning. Why? What would be the point of Manafort meeting with Assange? And note something. In none of these stories do you see the name “Trump,” not a single time, not a single place is the word “Trump” mentioned, the president, the candidate. Trump is not implicated in any of this.<\/p>\n

All this is a guilt-by-association thing. All of this is a political trap. This is not about the execution of justice. It\u2019s not about law and order. It\u2019s not about trying to get to the bottom of what happened in the 2016 election. It\u2019s about trying to overturn it. And short of being able to do that, it\u2019s about discrediting the winner.<\/p>\n

So why is it news that Manafort might have met with Julian Assange? And I\u2019m here to tell you, they had spies, we know that the Obama administration already had spies, they were looking, they had people embedded in the Trump campaign. If this had happened, I guaran-damn-tee you CNN and the Washington Post, New York Times would have been told about this months and months ago, they would have known about this.<\/p>\n

Because the minute Manafort was hired, Carter Page over here and Manafort was supposedly, the FBI and the DOJ knew that he was a bad guy, and they were worried, they thought about informing Trump that they might have had some mistakes here in hiring these two guys, but then they didn\u2019t. Instead they planted spies in the campaign to try to catch the Russians rather than inform the Trump campaign that they might have made a mistake. None of that happened. If Assange and Manafort had met, they would have known about it a long, long time ago. I mean, back in 2016 during the campaign.<\/p>\n

So what are we supposed to conclude? Well, it\u2019s not about what we\u2019re supposed to conclude. It\u2019s what the media can now start speculating. Possibility number one. Manafort had the Podesta emails because Manafort knew that the Russians had hacked the DNC server, and that\u2019s where Podesta\u2019s emails were. Except they weren\u2019t. But, remember, we\u2019re not dealing with facts here; we\u2019re dealing with people that are willing to make it up and suborn perjury.<\/p>\n

So don\u2019t be surprised if you see a story somewhere, some obscure place to start, and it will be picked up and eventually in the Drive-By Media that Manafort might have had advance notice the Podesta emails were gonna be hacked and told Assange about it or gave those emails or a link to them to Assange. Or the third possibility is Manafort told Assange that there had been a hacking attack, successful, of Podesta\u2019s emails and to tell WikiLeaks and Assange to be on the lookout and maybe go out there and try to find \u2019em. That\u2019s the value here.<\/p>\n

\"\"What other possibility is there for leaking that Paul Manafort met with Assange? I guarantee you it wasn\u2019t about property or investments in the Caymans. The idea that Manafort met. And now Manafort is accused of lying to the special counsel so much and so badly that the special counsel, the inestimable Robert Mueller is now thinking of canceling the plea deal because he\u2019s not getting what he wanted out of Manafort. Not getting what he wanted.<\/p>\n

Manafort probably doesn\u2019t know jack. Nobody knows jack because what they are trying to lay the foundation for happening didn\u2019t, unless you go investigate Hillary Clinton. Are we blue in the face talking about this and are you blue in the face hearing about it? Sorry, but this has made the top of the fold of the news today, these two Manafort stories.<\/p>\n

And of course my friend Andy McCarthy\u2019s written about this at National Review<\/a>, and he thinks that one of the things that is at stake here is a pardon for Manafort. And he thinks the news that Manafort is lying is supposed to be a message to Trump that Manafort\u2019s holding, Manafort\u2019s not betraying you, Manafort\u2019s not making up what they want to hear, he\u2019s gonna be worth a pardon. Except Trump cannot pardon anybody \u2019til this whole thing is over. So Manafort\u2019s gonna have to continue to hold out wherever Mueller sends him, whatever prison cell or hole in the wall he gets sent to because all of this is political.<\/p>\n

None of this has anything to do with the law or justice. It\u2019s all political now. And so if Trump is inclined to pardon Manafort, he can\u2019t do it while this investigation is still going on. There\u2019s another bit of discussion over just how imminent is the Mueller report? We had Professor Dershowitz — and I must tell you, one of the reasons why I do not — I don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand here — one of the reasons I do not repeat everything Professor Dershowitz says, I don\u2019t play every sound bite of Professor Dershowitz is because — well, I just don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So now Professor Dershowitz is out there saying over the weekend, over the Thanksgiving, the Black Friday, blue Monday, purple Saturday weekend, that the Mueller report is gonna be devastating for Trump, devastating. He hasn\u2019t sounded like that before this weekend. If anything, Professor Dershowitz has sounded more of, at least in the legal aspect of things, an ally of the president\u2019s position, even though he is an acknowledged liberal Democrat. But a civil libertarian and all that.<\/p>\n

So everyone glommed onto that. \u201cOh, my God. Professor Dershowitz says it\u2019s gonna be devastating. Oh, my God. They\u2019re gonna get Trump!\u201d The left has gone nuts. They think Dershowitz knows what Mueller has. So Dershowitz has to say, “Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I don\u2019t mean devastating in terms of impeachment or being charged. I mean politically. It\u2019s going to be devastating politically.”<\/p>\n