RUSH: Mark Penn is back today. He\u2019s the former Clinton pollster. Speaking of the Clintons, does the name John Huber ring a bell? John Huber is a lawyer who was named by the former attorney general Jeff Sessions to look into the Clinton Foundation and other nefarious acts engaged in by the Clintons.<\/p>\n
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This headline: \u201cFBI Raids Home of Clinton Foundation Whistleblower.\u201d This is a story from The Daily Caller, an exclusive report, very troubling, and in alignment with a previous suspicion that the whole investigation into the Clinton Foundation is bogus.<\/p>\n
According to the Daily Caller, \u201cFBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a government watchdog, according to the whistleblower\u2019s attorney.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Justice Department\u2019s inspector general was informed that the documents show that federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One.\u201d<\/p>\n
Basically what is happening here is it looks like the Department of Justice is doing everything it can to bury this investigation into the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. The investigation that Jeff Sessions named John Huber to look — if they\u2019re going after the whistleblower — they\u2019re raiding the whistleblower\u2019s home! They\u2019re not raiding people that worked for the Clintons, and they\u2019re not raiding people that worked for the Uranium One outfit. They\u2019re not raiding anybody that may have information on what the Clintons did. They\u2019re raiding the home of the whistleblower!<\/p>\n
They\u2019re also raiding Deutsche Bank and a Trump lawyer who may have had something to do with all of this \u2013 I\u2019ll tell you, this mess that Mueller is fabricating here, we talked about it yesterday, where this is going, and where it\u2019s going has nothing to do with what the American people for two years were led to believe. It isn\u2019t about tampering with votes. This isn\u2019t about Russian collusion to steal the election, which everybody thinks Mueller\u2019s been looking at.<\/p>\n
Robert Mueller is doing political opposition research, folks. He is not conducting a criminal investigation. He is conducting an opposition research operation no different than the Democrat or opposing political party would run on an opposing candidate. And the express purpose of this is to get Donald Trump thrown out of office.<\/p>\n
I disagree with people who think, “No, Mueller does not gonna do that. Mueller is just gonna lay out the case, and it will be left to other people to interpret what should be done about it. Maybe the House should engage impeachment.” I don\u2019t think that at all. I think that Mueller and everybody associated with him is expressly trying to get Donald Trump thrown out of office even if they can do it without impeachment. I think that\u2019s where this is headed. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about it.<\/p>\n
And one of the great indications of it, grab audio sound bite number 3, Jeffrey Toobin on CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper show last night; so excited they cannot contain themselves.<\/p>\n
TOOBIN: Today\u2019s the first day I actually thought Donald Trump might not finish his term in office.<\/p>\n
COOPER: Really?<\/p>\n
TOOBIN: I mean, I think this thing is enormous.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What is “this thing”? “This thing” is nothing in terms of violation of law, impeachable offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors, and it certainly has nothing to do with what the American people have been led to believe the past two years Mueller was doing. Mueller has been searching for a crime and now he\u2019s in the process of creating a crime or a series of them.<\/p>\n
Robert Mueller is every bit as partisan as anybody in Washington ever has been. This is not an investigation of legalities and justice. This is a political operation occurring under the banner of justice within the Department of Justice, under the banner of our judicial system.<\/p>\n
This whole thing is being cloaked and given legitimacy by virtue of it\u2019s being done by a special counsel, a man of impeccable integrity, a lawyer, a series of lawyers. This is the Washington establishment running a political opposition research operation that is designed to get rid of Donald Trump. Don\u2019t let anybody tell you otherwise.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s none of that in this. There\u2019s none of it, Mueller\u2019s admitting that he\u2019s got none of that! But I feel like I\u2019m all alone. And I don\u2019t mean you. But I feel like I\u2019m all alone in this. Everybody else — and it\u2019s frustrating — everybody else is analyzing this as though it\u2019s a legitimate case, a legitimate legal matter because there is a special counsel and there is a grand jury and there are investigations, and there are interviews, and it\u2019s being done by top-drawer lawyers and all that.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a political operation. It has always been a political operation, and there\u2019s never been a crime except for the crimes that are being ignored and covered up with this investigation. The crimes being ignored and covered up are those committed by Hillary Clinton. You know the drill. I\u2019m getting blue in the face talking about it, but I felt like I\u2019m the only one.<\/p>\n And I think it is key, I think it\u2019s a fundamentally important thing that the American people have been lied to for two years about what\u2019s going on here. That the Russians worked with Trump to tamper with the election. That they altered the outcome of the election. That they somehow managed to involve themselves in the counting of ballots and tampered with that. That\u2019s what everybody thinks this has been!<\/p>\n As the poll we keep citing from The Economist and YouGov indicates, over 60% of Democrats think that\u2019s what this is about. Forty-two percent of the American people think Russian meddling equals they tampered with the votes. It matters that we\u2019ve been lied to about this. It matters that people in the Department of Justice are conducting a political operation under the guise of a legal proceeding. That legal proceeding is supposed to give it credence and credibility when this is nothing more.<\/p>\n Imagine the Washington establishment as its own political party. Forget Democrat-Republican. The establishment, the elites, whatever, they are a political party, and they hate Trump. Trump beat them. They\u2019re using every bit of power and everything at their disposal to get rid of this guy and to nullify the election results of 2016. And they\u2019ve tried everything. They\u2019ve thrown everything up against the wall, including the Russians tampered, the Russians hacked, the Russians stole, the Russians got involved in voting machines. None of that happened.<\/p>\n There has been a pursuit of anybody as ancillary as necessary that they can tie to Trump that may have participated in something that anybody could say is suspect or criminal or what have you. Well, Mark Penn has a piece out today<\/a> that — I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m alone. And remember, I don\u2019t mean you. I know you\u2019re up to speed on this. I don\u2019t mind being a lone voice, but this is important. This is one of the greatest travesties, scandals.<\/p>\n They\u2019re trying to shut that down. Washington establishment as a political party is protecting its own, from James Comey to Hillary Clinton to McCabe to Strzok Smirk to Lisa Page to Rosenstein, name \u2019em. Here is a pull quote from the Mark Penn piece<\/a>. I silently cheered when I read this today. ‘Cause I\u2019ve been on this course for a year and a half, if not longer.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s clear now Mueller is no longer looking for crimes in the presidential race of 2016. He is simply creating a narrative to delegitimize the president and to string together his words to Comey with the Flynn indictment, Cohen with Stormy Daniels payment, Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi with ties to Julian Assange, and now Cohen with underplaying Russia connections. And let\u2019s not forget the Trump Tower meeting with the attorney who was also conveniently working with Fusion GPS.\u201d<\/p>\n This is Veselnitskaya, the honeypot. She met with Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS before the Trump Tower meeting and then reported back to them after the Trump Tower meeting. Fusion GPS equals Hillary, equals Steele, equals the Steele dossier, equals the law firm Perkins Coie, equals the whole effort to sabotage Trump. And this Trump Tower meeting was a setup to begin with. “Hey, we\u2019ve got some dirt on Hillary you might want to see.”<\/p>\n Don Jr. says, “Hey, we\u2019re in the business of beating Hillary. Let\u2019s see what you got.” They get there; they don\u2019t have any dirt on Hillary. They want to talk about some Russian adoption angle they\u2019re mad at, the Magnitsky Act. Big whoop! And then the honeypot goes back and reports to Fusion GPS.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Let me read this paragraph again. This is Mark Penn, and I\u2019m happy to see this out there other than on this program. “[I]t\u2019s clear now Mueller is no longer looking for crimes in the presidential race of 2016,” if he ever was. There never were any to be found. “There\u2019s no doubt that the outline of Mueller\u2019s report was written a long time ago and is being filled in. For those who thought Mueller would deliver a balanced and thoughtful report, these latest actions suggest that instead, we are seeing an all-out attack on the president and the presidency the likes of which we have never seen. Get ready for the fight of the century coming soon and it will be about everything except collusion with the Russian government.”<\/p>\n It\u2019s going to be about the Washington establishment and their pique at Donald Trump defeating them and their efforts using anything they can to get rid of him.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I just want to share with you the opening of the Mark Penn piece because it is right on, bro, right on.<\/p>\n “The pattern and purpose of Mueller\u2019s investigation and the endgame is becoming clear, and yes, it\u2019s clearly get the president at all costs.\u201d There\u2019s no mistake about this. Mueller is not somebody dispassionate, just assembling the facts — thank you, ma\u2019am — and presenting them to Congress and the Senate so people can decide what to do. Mueller is leading the effort to get Trump out of Washington, out of the White House, out of Washington.<\/p>\n \u201cThe team Mueller hired really foretold the story \u2014 Andrew Weissmann as the stop-at-nothing pit bull and a group of Democratic-leaning lawyers,\u201d all donors to the Hillary campaign, some have even represented the Clintons, \u201chad the obstruction of justice charge ready to go on day one. They have not been looking at the Russians tampering. It\u2019s never been about that. They\u2019ve been lying to everybody with the help of the media about that.<\/p>\n But this business — I\u2019ve tried to tell everyone, Andrew Weissmann, this team of lawyers that Mueller has assembled is right out of the Enron task force and right out of the Ted Stevens trial, and these are people who have asked their own star witnesses to lie on the witness stand, including in the Ted Stevens case. This is so beyond the pale that it is almost beyond believability. People just are not gonna believe that the Department of Justice could be this corrupt. It\u2019s an institution that\u2019s considered to be anything but that.<\/p>\n \u201cTrump\u2019s first team of lawyers with their \u2018don\u2019t worry and cooperate\u2019 strategy set the president back, and let the whole thing spiral out of control.\u201d They thought they were equals. Trump\u2019s president; he won the election. We\u2019re all lawyers here; we know the game, they said. So they thought, as equals, that they would be able to talk to the special counsel\u2019s lawyers as equals. Had no idea.<\/p>\n Republicans never have any idea what they\u2019re up against. Bush Republicans never knew what they were up against. Frankly, I don\u2019t think Rudy has known what he\u2019s up against, some of the time. And Rudy\u2019s the closest thing to a pit bull Trump has.<\/p>\n \u201cThe investigation,\u201d writes Mr. Penn, \u201chas come up truly empty on its central charge related to the president \u2014 collusion with the Russian government.\u201d There\u2019s nothing there! It should have been disbanded! It should have been shut down the minute the original premise — But notice Rosenstein knowingly violated Justice Department regulations and did not specify a crime<\/a>. Therefore there were no boundaries or limits placed on Mueller. He was free to go anywhere, spend whatever it took in search of or in creation, manufacture of a crime.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-NY-Fox-News-Tearaway-113018-1.jpg\")
<\/a>And Mark Penn<\/a>, the former Clinton pollster who has been writing extensively about much of this and many of these things has a piece out today — you know, I am invested in this. I spent the first hour, maybe the first hour and a half of this program yesterday unloading<\/a> on how we\u2019ve been lied to and how we\u2019ve been misled and how this isn\u2019t about anything that got it started, tampering with votes, stealing the election.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-051018-Doctor-Of-Democracy-ADJUSTED.jpg\")
We find out now that the whistleblower who has the goods on the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One deal, the same FBI trying to get rid of Donald Trump is now trying to harass and threaten the whistleblower? The whistleblower, I thought these people were protected. Didn\u2019t you, Mr. Snerdley? I thought whistleblowers were golden. I thought whistleblowers were protected. I didn\u2019t know the FBI raided them. If you find out the whistleblower is lying to you, that\u2019s one thing, but I don\u2019t think anybody believes that.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021618-Mueller-Nothing.jpg\")
It is a concerted political operation being disguised as a legal proceeding, and Trump\u2019s first team of lawyers had no idea what they were up against. \u201cYeah, well, we\u2019ll cooperate. We got nothing to hide here.\u201d They thought they were equals because Trump had won the White House. They\u2019re never gonna be equals. Trump is never gonna be more than pond scum to these people, just like anybody else not in their club is never gonna be more than pond scum to these people.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>But there wasn\u2019t any collusion. And I\u2019m telling you, the American people still to this day think, even with Cohen pleading this and lying here, telling the truth there and Stone and Corsi and Manafort and whatever, I will guarantee you that over half, maybe 75% of the American people think this is about the Russians tampering with votes and stealing the election and Trump being complicit.<\/p>\n