{"id":301973,"date":"2019-03-06T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=301973"},"modified":"2019-03-12T15:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:14:57","slug":"cohen-and-brennan-news-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/06\/cohen-and-brennan-news-what-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen and Brennan News: What It Means"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I checked the email during the break, and somebody wants to know, “What is this really going on with Michael Cohen and his testimony behind closed doors today?” Let me synthesize this down to what I think is happening. The root of this is, to me, the Democrats are hapless. Whether they believe that Trump colluded with Russia and that\u2019s why he won the election or not, they are still forced to believe in that narrative and to try to exploit it for their base which does believe it.<\/p>\n

\"\"The thing I don\u2019t know for certain is how many of these Democrats actually do believe it versus those who are just going through the motions. But it doesn\u2019t really matter for where it\u2019s gonna end up. The Democrats are hell-bent, for whatever reason, to demonstrate that Trump colluded with Russia somehow, somewhere, some way, and that that would explain why Mueller\u2019s investigation was begun and maybe why Trump won the election. So the specifics of Cohen\u2019s testimony today have to do with the Moscow project.<\/p>\n

This is not the Trump Tower meeting. That\u2019s a separate entity. What Cohen is testifying to today is whether or not Trump was seeking to build a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2016, and did he carry over the effort in 2017. Now, the fact remains, there isn\u2019t a Trump Tower in Moscow. If there was a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow in cooperation with Russian real estate people, tycoons or whatever, it didn\u2019t work because there isn\u2019t one. Now, on March 14th, the Democrats are bringing somebody in to testify about all this by the name of Felix Sater.<\/p>\n

Felix Sater is a Russian, and he\u2019s a real estate magnate who has worked with Trump on this project. Cohen is being asked to amend his testimony from previous occasions before congressional committees in order to set up the testimony that they expect to get from Felix Sater. The bottom line is that they\u2019re using Cohen today because Cohen is a total tool now. You understand Cohen has to revise and say whatever they want him to say if he is to have any hope for leniency. Cohen has totally abandoned all identity.<\/p>\n

Cohen is now a squish. He\u2019s a pile of mush. He is totally subservient to the anti-Trump forces who are using him. He\u2019s being used to set up testimony on March 14th with this Felix Sater guy who they hope is going to say that yes, Trump was indeed trying to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, and thereby the Democrats then hope to be able to say, “See! See! Trump and Russia! Trump. Trump Tower. Trump and Russia. Felix Sater, Russian connections to Putin! They are desperate to find anything. They\u2019re scraping the bottom of the barrel now.<\/p>\n

If there were a Trump Tower in Moscow, it might matter. But even then, nothing would be illegal, and they still can\u2019t prove that any of that had anything to do with Trump winning the presidency! This is why I think they\u2019re scraping the bottom of the barrel, but in large part because they have to demonstrate to their base — which is gone. Their bace is literally cockamamie insane, and they themselves probably are too. I mean the elected Democrats. They are (sigh) incalculably insane, driven to this point by their inability to stop Donald Trump, get rid of Donald Trump, defeat Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

And at each of these ventures, each of these moments when they think they finally got Trump in the crosshairs, his approval numbers go up, the economy comes up with great numbers, or something else happens to strengthen Trump\u2019s position, and it just keeps backfiring on them. All that does is fuel their resolve to go get even more or to try for even more, which is now why Nadler is demanding 10 years of Trump\u2019s tax returns. Eighty-one people\u2019s documents and so forth and so on are being subpoenaed.<\/p>\n

\"\"It is “throw everything up against the wall and hope something sticks,” and to create this illusion (with the help of the media) that Trump is so corrupt and so dirty and so polluted that he has no business being president, and that the Democrats are gonna be the ones to reveal and unearth all of this. But they can\u2019t even prove crimes. They can\u2019t prove collusion. They can\u2019t. So all of it is part of the recipe to begin impeachment proceedings. Now, John Brennan, the CIA director for Obama, apparently was on PMSNBC last night. (I don\u2019t need the audio for this.)<\/p>\n

He said that he has no inside knowledge, he doesn\u2019t know anything, and he went on to suggest that Mueller will drop his report on Friday, and there will be indictments — and that if there are indictments of Trump family members, that Trump will then fire Mueller on the spot, thereby ending the Mueller investigation. But he doesn\u2019t know anything. He doesn\u2019t have any inside knowledge. But there he is on PMSNBC last night predicting all this. He said, “Well, the reason I think Friday is \u2019cause that\u2019s when grand juries drop their indictments.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t think he would wait \u2019til next Friday because that\u2019s the Ides of March,” and Brennan said, “I don\u2019t even think Mueller would go that far.” (Snort!) What? Mueller would not issue his report on the Ides of March because not even Mueller would go that far? What does that mean? “Well, we\u2019re not gonna, of course, take out Caesar here. We don\u2019t want any comparisons on that or…” (Groan!) These people are just becoming increasingly difficult to logically follow. Now, I\u2019ve heard from more than one source all week that Mueller\u2019s report may drop this week.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard that independently of Brennan, and the latest heads-up I got (\u2019cause it matters) is that it could be tomorrow, and that if it\u2019s tomorrow that we\u2019ll get an inkling of it sometime later today. So whatever, it\u2019s imminent. But with Brennan talking about what\u2019s in it? Brennan\u2019s adding to it that it\u2019s gonna be a report and the final indictments and of Trump family members! Well, if — if — there are Trump family — “extended Trumps,” he said. (paraphrased) “If there are extended Trumps indicted, why that would result in Trump will immediately fire Mueller, and that will end the investigation. But that doesn\u2019t mean that Mueller will be defeated.<\/p>\n

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“It means Mueller will have achieved his objective and will have been fired with great honor and all that.” So as much as I know about the Mueller report, there\u2019s scuttlebutt that people claim to know. We\u2019ve been set up here the last two months, and I\u2019m so suspicious of this. We\u2019ve been set up in the last two months to believe that Mueller has nothing on collusion. When the media gets in unison on something, I come to expect the opposite. I know that they\u2019re acting like they\u2019re gonna be disappointed that there isn\u2019t gonna be anything on collusion, anything on Russia. But that was just a smoke screen in terms of what Mueller\u2019s charge always was.<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s always been a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation; there wasn\u2019t a crime mentioned or elucidated for Mueller to track down — and collusion by itself isn\u2019t a crime, anyway. So whatever it is, folks, it\u2019s just all part of the recipe for the eventual impeachment of the president. That\u2019s really all you need to know about it. As it drops and we get details — and, by the way, we may not know immediately what\u2019s in it, because it doesn\u2019t have to be made public.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s up to the attorney general and, you know, during his confirmation hearings he was asked, (paraphrased exchange in Southern accents), “You gonna make sure that that report, when it drops, that you share it with the American public? You gonna make sure that it goes public?” “Oh, you bet, Senator! You bet we\u2019ll make sure that everybody knows accordin\u2019 to the aspects of the law that I have to follow and all that! You damn right! We\u2019re gonna what everything we can within the bounds of the law,” which meant: “I\u2019ll decide that later. Nothing you can do about it once I\u2019m confirmed.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jerry in Syracuse. He\u2019s been waiting awhile. Thank you, Jerry. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, sir. I want to give you a new title. You are and have become the conscience of the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to compliment you on that, sir. You do a great service for all of us. The question I have, is can you shed any light on what has happened to the second part of the Horowitz report that supposedly was supposed to focus on Hillary Clinton?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that\u2019s an excellent question. There\u2019s also somebody that Attorney General Sessions appointed to conduct a similar investigation, some attorney from Utah. What was his name? Huber? Haber? He\u2019s out there supposedly investigating things we haven\u2019t heard anything about. You know what? As “the conscience of the country,” I\u2019m gonna have to look into that because there hasn\u2019t been… I know Horowitz is still digging, and there is another report due from him at some point. I don\u2019t know exactly what the release date for it is, but it is imminent. I just don\u2019t know when.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand. Well, I thank you, sir, and —<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: I realize what you\u2019re getting at here (sigh), and I don\u2019t want to be the guy that pours cold water on things, but I don\u2019t… (sigh) I don\u2019t… How to put this? I don\u2019t want to be pessimistic or negative. It\u2019s not my point. But I don\u2019t think an IG… We\u2019ve already had one IG report on Strzok Smirk and McCabe and these guys. They\u2019re still out profiting. McCabe is still lying through his teeth and writing a book about it now, and he\u2019s still a star on CNN. These people are immune. John Huber is that guy that supposedly is out there digging up things on the Hillary side of this that Sessions appointed.<\/p>\n

Whatever is discovered about these people, they remain stars to the American media. They remain very prominent and heroic to their side of the aisle. There\u2019s not any shame that attaches to them, and even if they get fired and lose their jobs, somebody\u2019s paying them to do something like McCabe in writing his book. (sigh) So I wouldn\u2019t put a whole lot of hope or eggs in that basket, because it just doesn\u2019t seem to affect the way Washington ends up working, be it inspector general of any government agency.<\/p>\n

Look at what we learned about the IRS, and the people are still there. Lois Lerner would still be there if she wanted to be. Koskinen and these people that were weaponized by Obama? It became widely known what they did, and to half the country (or 30%, whatever it is on the left), they were applauded, and they\u2019re living in relative comfort now with no recriminations whatsoever. It\u2019s part and parcel of the two-tier justice system that has emerged in the federal Department of Justice, where it seems that there\u2019s a completely different type of justice for Democrats as one designated for Republicans.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see. Let\u2019s see. Oh, one more thing on the Cohen situation. I forgot to make clear what he\u2019s actually doing here in his testimony. ‘Cause when I saw this on CNN, I\u2019m able to watch but not hear what\u2019s being talked about, and I saw that Cohen\u2019s documents that he\u2019s showing here show edits. I said, “What the hell is this?” So what I\u2019ve been able to determine here is that Cohen is claiming in his testimony that his documents show that somebody changed his script for his testimony about the timeline of the negotiations for the Trump Tower Moscow project.<\/p>\n

And what he\u2019s doing is implying that Trump changed the dates — the dates in the timeline — so that it would not appear that Trump was actively participating in the Trump Tower Moscow project either as president or as a candidate. Cohen is claiming now that he was, and that Trump edited his documents — his testimony — and forced him to lie. I think that\u2019s what Cohen was doing today, obviously under pressure from his own lawyers and the Democrats to do it. That is to set up what the Democrats think is like an exclamation point testimony to all this from this guy, Felix Sater, that\u2019s coming up on March the 14th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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