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<\/p>\nRUSH: What I want to start with today on the Trump stuff, two things here that are equally important. One of them that\u2019s important, potentially, the judge in the Michael Flynn case is named Emmet Sullivan. Emmet Sullivan is the judge in the Ted Stevens case, the Ted Stevens trial.<\/p>\n
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And, in that trial, the prosecutors, the same group of people on Mueller\u2019s team, the prosecutors in that case suborned perjury from the star witness against Ted Stevens, a contractor, a home repair guy. They got Ted Stevens kicked out of the Senate for supposedly accepting a kickback of 150 grand for a remodeling job at his house that he didn\u2019t pay for. That\u2019s what Ted Stevens was charged with.<\/p>\n
That a contractor did a $150,000 remodeling job and gave him the work in exchange for whatever Ted Stevens could do for the guy as a senator. That guy, that contractor was asked to lie about Ted Stevens and what he asked for on the witness stand. Judge Emmet Sullivan found out about this and he raised holy hell with these prosecutors. He overturned the conviction of Ted Stevens after Ted Stevens was gone from the Senate.<\/p>\n
I have cited that book. I have suggested that you try to find that book for almost nine months now. So now Judge Sullivan wants to see. He\u2019s ordered Mueller to turn over all of the interview documents with Michael Flynn after we learned that the FBI in the White House did not tell Flynn that he was actually being interviewed and told him he didn\u2019t need a lawyer! He was set up. Michael Flynn — a decorated military hero for 30 years — was set up by the FBI on the orders of James Comey!<\/p>\n Judge Sullivan has now discovered this, and he has demanded by tomorrow that all the documents relating to the Flynn case be turned over to him. Now, among those documents will be sworn statements by Andrew McCabe and a couple other FBI agents that they don\u2019t think Flynn lied. McCabe was the one that did the interview, and they don\u2019t think he lied. He walked into the White House one day and wants to talk to talk to Flynn, and Flynn doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s up.<\/p>\n It\u2019s early days administration. They\u2019ve just gone through the transition. So here\u2019s somebody from the friendly FBI — we\u2019re all in this together — who wants to talk to him. Flynn said, “Sure. What do you want to know?” It was an interview. It was an entrapment interview, and they told him, “No, no, no. You don\u2019t need a lawyer for this,” and Comey\u2019s out there bragging about how he pulled this off, and he\u2019s getting laughter from the audiences that he tells the story to.<\/p>\n So Judge Sullivan has been there and seen all this, and to demand all of these documents by Friday? We can only hope. But I tell you, folks. Judges and prosecutors hang together like pole dancers and the pole. They just do. I mean, it was such a remarkable thing for Judge Sullivan to sanction the prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case. It was so unusual. Everybody thinks of justice as a set of scales that are equally balanced, and it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Prosecutors are before judges constantly. The same lawyers, the same prosecutors appear in federal court all the time. The judges get to know them. In some cases, this is true of defense lawyers — famous, big-name defense lawyers. But the relationship between… They\u2019re all government. Federal judge is government. The FBI is government. The DOJ is government. They\u2019re all government — and in day-to-day acknowledgment, they\u2019re all on the same team.<\/p>\n So there\u2019s always been massive amounts of leeway extended to prosecutors because the judges all figure, “What are we doing here if the perp didn\u2019t do it? The perp must have done it or we wouldn\u2019t be going through all this.” I\u2019ve learned this the hard way. There are these massive assumptions that if you\u2019re charged, you did it; that they wouldn\u2019t waste time charging you if you didn\u2019t do it. Well, that\u2019s crazy, and we\u2019re seeing this now.<\/p>\n George Papadopoulos was set up. Flynn was set up. I think Trump has been set up in all this. So late yesterday, Judge Sullivan, overseeing the Flynn criminal case, ordered Mueller to turn over all of the governments documents and memos related to Flynn\u2019s questioning by the FBI. By Friday! All of this happened one day after Flynn\u2019s lawyers revealed that the FBI told Flynn not to bring a lawyer to his interview with them.<\/p>\n We could only hope that Judge Sullivan might want to know why the FBI misled Flynn, and basically interviewed him in a criminal intent without telling him this, and then telling him he didn\u2019t need to bring a lawyer, denying him legal representation! Judge Sullivan might want to know why the FBI took a far more aggressive approach in handling the Flynn interview than it ever did with Hillary and her aides, or even George Papadopoulos.<\/p>\n Now, the article here notes that the FBI agents took seven months to write up a 302 report. The 302 report is supposed to be done contemporaneously to document the interview. The 302 report just reviews what happens. It just reports what happened. It reports who said what after who was asked what. The 302 doesn\u2019t say, “We think the perp did it, Judge! We think you need to sentence this guy for the rest of his life.”<\/p>\n It just reports what was said, what was asked — and it took \u2019em seven months! It could have been done in a day. The interview with Flynn was done. It\u2019s transcribed. You turn it over to the court. They took seven months to write up the 302. Now, given that Judge Sullivan overturned the conviction of Ted Stevens — prosecuted by many of the same people who are on Mueller\u2019s team — there are people hoping that he might overturn this.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Folks, I\u2019ve been misspeaking here. It\u2019s Emmet Sullivan is the judge. Emmet Flood is one of Trump\u2019s lawyers. I get these Emmets and Brendans confused. I have a name in my mind, Brendan Sullivan. Brendan Sullivan is the lawyer who asked if he was just a potted plant during the Iran-Contra hearings. I think he was representing either Ollie North or Fawn Hall. I\u2019m not sure which.<\/p>\n So Sullivan goes with Brendan, in my head — and Curt Flood, St. Louis Cardinals. Emmet Flood. So I got \u2019em confused. It\u2019s Emmet Sullivan is the judge. He was the star of Sidney Powell\u2019s book, and he\u2019s the same judge that\u2019s… (sigh) This case, the Flynn case should have never been brought and I hope that Judge Sullivan throws this entire thing out because of what they\u2019ve done to this man.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: There\u2019s not a lawyer in this country that was gonna ever send Michael Flynn away to jail no matter what they claim he did. The guy is a 30-year decorated military hero. He has done nothing but serve this country.<\/p>\n Now, Mueller with all of these redactions in the sentencing memo that was released is made to look like — this guy is such a snake, folks. These people in this special prosecutor\u2019s office, this whole cabal in the DOJ are just a bunch of snakes. Redacting all of that stuff makes it look like there may be some really, really bad, sinister stuff that Flynn did. It is so unfair.<\/p>\n Well, now Judge Sullivan wants to see everything that led into this. And when you\u2019re the FBI and you\u2019re in the White House casually there, and you run into Flynn, “Hey, you got time for a little chat here?” And you conduct what is an official interview that you don\u2019t tell him is official. In fact, you tell him he doesn\u2019t even need a lawyer, and then, after that, you charge him with lying even though the agent after the interview said, and two other agents agreed, that they don\u2019t think Flynn lied.<\/p>\n So what the hell is this charge about? Michael Flynn\u2019s being punished for working for Donald Trump. Michael Flynn is a bowling pin that has to be knocked out of the way on the way to getting to Donald Trump. The same thing with Michael Cohen. And the same thing with Roger Stone and the same way with anybody they think they can chip out of the way in order to get to Trump. There isn\u2019t any justice in any of this. And Comey is in the thick of this.<\/p>\n When liberals get together and they think only themselves are in the room and it\u2019s only liberals listening to other liberals, they speak freely. According to the FBI summary of Michael Flynn\u2019s 302 interview, Andrew McCabe and FBI officials decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie during an FBI interview because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed. And they were concerned that giving the warning might adversely affect the rapport.<\/p>\n See, they didn\u2019t want Flynn to think he was being officially interviewed. So they didn\u2019t tell him that he had a right to have an attorney present. He would have known that if he would have known the reason this little chat was taking place, but he didn\u2019t even know that. The FBI walks into the White House. As far as Flynn knows, we\u2019re all on the same team here! Flynn has no idea they\u2019re coming to set him up.<\/p>\n They decided they would not warn Flynn it was a crime. Meaning they didn\u2019t say, “By the way, you can get an attorney. By the way, if you tell us things that aren\u2019t true, you could be in trouble.” They didn\u2019t say any of that. And Comey says it\u2019s \u2019cause they wanted Flynn to be relaxed. That\u2019s not why they didn\u2019t tell him. They wanted him to slip up!<\/p>\n They were trying to create a process crime here in a so-called casual discussion setting that was actually an official interview. And it was Comey\u2019s idea. Comey said, “Something I probably wouldn\u2019t have done or wouldn\u2019t have gotten away with in a more organized administration.” Comey is saying if there had to be a bunch of people in the White House who knew what was going on, I couldn\u2019t have gotten away with this. He\u2019s telling other liberals in the room how they pulled this off.<\/p>\n So they got a new administration led by Donald Trump from the outside, not suspecting that anybody\u2019s on the warpath to set \u2019em up or any of that, especially Flynn as a decorated war hero. He should have known. These are all Obama people. And Obama hated him. Flynn ran the Defense Intelligence Agency. That\u2019s the defense department\u2019s version of the CIA. And he did so with distinction and great honor. And these guys came to set him up.<\/p>\n And Comey\u2019s admitting to some of his buddies, “Yeah, probably wouldn\u2019t have done this if somebody in that White House had known what\u2019s going on,” meaning they fully intended to take advantage of the naivete of newly arrived personnel in the Trump administration. Something I probably wouldn\u2019t have done or wouldn\u2019t have gotten away with in a more organized administration. So even this he\u2019s bragging about how he outsmarted this dimwit Trump and his administration. Yeah, outsmarted them by lying to them, by telling \u2019em, “Yeah, you don\u2019t need a lawyer, yeah, don\u2019t worry lying to us.” No warnings whatsoever.<\/p>\n Comey continued. He said in the Bush administration or the Obama administration, if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you\u2019d have to go through the White House counsel. There\u2019d be discussions and approvals on who would be there. And I thought it\u2019s early enough, let\u2019s just send a couple of guys over there. They\u2019re not gonna know what\u2019s going on. And that\u2019s what they did. They sent a couple of FBI agents, including one of the management types, McCabe. And he\u2019s strolling around the White House and runs into Flynn, “Hey, Mike. How you doing, buddy?” And they sit down and they start having a chat!<\/p>\n Little does Flynn know it\u2019s an official interview, with Comey admitting that they set it up this way. And look at the people Comey surrounded himself with. FBI is supposed to be interested in getting the bad guys; right? Justice personified, the flag and all of that. And who are the people Comey surrounded himself with? McCabe, Peter Strzok Smirk, Lisa Page. For crying out loud, Comey wasn\u2019t fired soon enough once Trump figured out the lay of the land here. Comey should have been gone the minute Trump won the presidency!<\/p>\n So after Comey is fired, he then helps engineer the hiring of Robert Mueller as special counsel by leaking classified information. Guess what Comey does now? Comey is teaching ethics at William & Mary College. Ethics. After bragging about the fact that they set up a 30-year military hero by not even asking the White House counsel if they could come over and conduct an interview with Flynn. They just strolled in, “Hey, Mike, great to see you.”<\/p>\n Flynn says, “Hey, Andrew, what\u2019s happening, babe?” And they start chatting. And from that Robert Mueller charges Flynn with lying. Even though McCabe later said he didn\u2019t think that Flynn was lying. So this is why Judge Sullivan wants to see all of the documentation and all of the memos. But I\u2019m sorry, folks, I think this is a bombshell.<\/p>\n James Comey admitting they bypassed normal White House protocol when he sent a couple of agents in there to interrogate Flynn. Something I probably wouldn\u2019t have done or wouldn\u2019t have gotten away with in a more organized administration. Bush or Obama, the FBI wanted to send agents in the White House itself to interview a senior official. You\u2019d have to go through the counsel\u2019s office. There would be discussions, approvals, who would be there. And I thought, it\u2019s early enough in this Trump fiasco, I\u2019ll just send a couple guys over. And the audience, whoever Comey was speaking to here, they all started laughing about how clever the setup was. Comey said all this on MSNBC. And it\u2019s clear that this is all ultimately a setup of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n Now, if they\u2019ve done this with Flynn, what have they done with Cohen, a guy who actually has committed a whole lot of crimes above and beyond way nothing to do with Donald Trump. But it\u2019s just one setup after another after a totally false and fake premise: Russian collusion between Trump and Putin to steal an election.<\/p>\n By the way, I have now been informed Licensed to Lie, the great Sidney Powell book, is available now at Amazon. It wasn\u2019t for a year or two, but it\u2019s now available. I really would recommend it to you. It\u2019s gonna have you spitting mad. It\u2019s a page-turner even though it\u2019s factual, it\u2019s historical, but it\u2019s not dry or dull at all. It starts out with the Enron trials, the task force. You will not believe what this bunch of prosecutors did to innocent people at Merrill Lynch. You will not believe what they did.<\/p>\n But as many of you as possible reading this book and learning what they did, you\u2019ll have a far greater understanding of what\u2019s gone on in the entire Mueller investigation. But the Ted Stevens case, you have to read awhile to get to it. But Judge Emmet Sullivan eventually vacates the conviction and just chastises these prosecutors and demand they go to what is essentially prosecutor rehab, to relearn their jobs, to relearn ethics. I mean, suborning perjury of their star witness, making the contractor lie! Well, that\u2019s what\u2019s exactly been accused here!<\/p>\n Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, every number of people here are saying that Mueller is demanding that they lie about things in order to get a plea deal! And they don\u2019t know what to do! You never lie to these people even when they tell you to because if you lie to them once even after they\u2019ve told you to they can always deny they told you to lie and come back and get you later.<\/p>\n They get you coming and going, by design. Once they\u2019ve got their sights set on you, you can\u2019t slither out of this. They\u2019re gonna get you coming or going if you\u2019re in the way of where they ultimately want to go, and all of these people are in the way of where they want to go, which is Donald Trump and a political casket.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: You know, all this talk about trying to peel away all of these people close to Donald Trump so they can have a beeline at him to finally impeach him and get rid of him, more than 25 people have been fired or resigned from the FBI DOJ over this nonsense.<\/p>\n Now, it\u2019s not publicized much, there\u2019s not a lot of news made about it because it doesn\u2019t make that organization look good; so the Drive-By Media doesn\u2019t talk about it. But more than 25 people have been fired or resigned, including McCabe, including Strzok Smirk, including Page, including Bruce Ohr, including Bill Priestap, just a bunch of these people, plus Comey. Comey has been fired, he is gone. Top people that Comey had a hand in picking. They\u2019re all gone.<\/p>\n Now, maybe I shouldn\u2019t emphasize this as much because I don\u2019t know what Judge Sullivan is gonna do. All I know is what Judge Sullivan has done. And in the Ted Stevens case, folks, it was just outrageous what they did to that man. The thing I took away from it, after reading it, reading about it, it was obvious the prosecutorial misconduct. It was plentiful. There was lots of it, unquestionably.<\/p>\n There weren\u2019t periods of confusion or indecision about it. It was slam dunk prosecutorial misconduct. And it took forever to deal with it. It was a major, major operation to even acknowledge it. These people, if nothing else, circle the wagons. This is the entire DOJ, from the judges down to the prosecutors, the line prosecutors, the clerical people, they\u2019re all on the same team. And I\u2019m telling you, when they all get into court, there are so many assumptions that take place, and chief among them is that the perpetrator did it.<\/p>\n The prosecutors in that case should have been sanctioned months before they were. The last step the judge took was sanctioning the prosecutors when it should have been a slam dunk with the first indication he had of what happened. The case almost survived the prosecutors suborning perjury. That\u2019s how deeply ingrained the formula and the process on the prosecution side of these kinds of cases is. And I guess the overriding bias is that we wouldn\u2019t be here if the perp actually hadn\u2019t done it, if the perp was innocent, we wouldn\u2019t even be here.<\/p>\n But they ruined the career of a United States Senator named Ted Stevens over a $150,000, approximately, of a home repair bill! And they got the contractor to lie about it. The star witness. The whole case was thrown out. The conviction was vacated and overturned, after Ted Stevens had lost his Senate seat. He was a Republican from Alaska. He died shortly after all of this happened, and nobody knows whether the stress, the angst, the agita, had anything to do with his death.<\/p>\n But, I mean, it\u2019s just outrageous. And it was such a hard thing to do. It should have been easy. It should have been a slam dunk. And this is one of the problems I think people have with the criminal justice system. One slipup by a perp and that\u2019s it, you\u2019re gone, buddy. The prosecution can slip up over and over again and the benefit of the doubt is extended, “Oh, they didn\u2019t mean to do it, Judge, sorry. The 302, you know what, we submitted to you the wrong one.”<\/p>\n And the ancillary people whose lives were ruined in the Enron trials, the Nigerian barge case ended up — this was an offshoot of the Enron trial. The Nigerian barge case, a couple of people at Merrill Lynch that didn\u2019t do diddly-squat! Spent years in prison, lost their careers, nearly lost their families! They were innocent from the get-go! Judges, appellate judges wouldn\u2019t listen!<\/p>\n And now we\u2019ve got the same scenario unfolding right before our very eyes, and this time the target isn\u2019t Ken Lay or Jeff Skilling at Enron. It\u2019s Donald Trump. And the people going by the wayside are not from Merrill Lynch and the Nigerian barge case. They are Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen and anybody else they can ensnare.<\/p>\n Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, are you kidding me? Russian collusion, tampering with the votes in the 2016 election and we\u2019re now down to getting rid of a president because of payments to silence a porn star? 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<\/a>They succeeded in defeating him in his election. It was too late to get his Senate seat back. But they overturned the conviction, and the lawyers in this case were sanctioned mightily by Judge Sullivan, and they\u2019re back, and they\u2019re on Mueller\u2019s team. Sidney Powell has written about all of these people starting with Andrew Weissmann in her book that Amazon will not sell called Licensed to Lie<\/a>. I have quoted from that book.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/APP-050718-Flynn.jpg\")
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It\u2019s just basically unfair what they have done to this guy. They\u2019ve destroyed him financially. They forced him into copping a plea to something he didn\u2019t do that they set him up to do in order to save his family and the house. So they issue this sentencing document with all of these redactions made to look like, “Wow! He must have really violated a bunch of national security that they -” He didn\u2019t do anything! It\u2019s all PR. It\u2019s all buzz. There wasn\u2019t a judge that was gonna send this guy to jail for a day. He\u2019d get probation or some such thing.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021318-Rice-Comey-Obama-Flynn.jpg\")
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And so the bias that is extended to prosecutors in trials like this, whether it\u2019s the result of unfairness or bias, I don\u2019t know, and it\u2019s not even the point. It\u2019s just the formula. It\u2019s just the way it is and has been. Some defendants are a little rare. It\u2019s even tougher sometimes to convict a terrorist because we don\u2019t want to be accused of any kind of anti-Muslim bias or this or that. But in a case like Ted Stevens, a United States senator, it\u2019s amazing. This case should have been thrown out months before it was.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-017.jpg\")
“Well, I can give you to the end of the week to make it right.” It\u2019s just maddeningly frustrating. And then when I find out that these prosecutors, many of them who\u2019ve been sanctioned and had to go to prosecutor rehab essentially, the equivalent of, and relearn ethics are on Mueller\u2019s team! He hired \u2019em! Even after all of this. And many of them were on the Enron task force. And the Supreme Court of the United States overturned all those convictions!<\/p>\n