{"id":305786,"date":"2019-04-11T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=305786"},"modified":"2019-04-12T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T19:54:37","slug":"trump-stays-on-offense-doubles-down-on-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/11\/trump-stays-on-offense-doubles-down-on-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"The President Should Keep Explaining the Spying Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: In a White House gaggle with the reporters, the president of South Korea is in the Oval Office. And the president doubled down on the spying. He said spying is the correct term. It was illegal. It was unprecedented spying on his campaign. So he\u2019s not letting up on the accelerator here at all.<\/p>\n

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And look. Everybody knows what happened here. This is one of the great sources of fear and frustration is that we all knew what was going on. They knew that we knew what was going on, but they were confident there was nothing we could do about it. They had Mueller. They had the FBI. They had Brennan. They had Clapper. They had the intelligence agencies. They had the establishment on their side.<\/p>\n

And then Barr. They didn\u2019t so much fumble as Barr stripped them of the ball. And Trump is continuing to pound it today. And I think that\u2019s instructive in two ways. Trump would not keep pounding this if it wasn\u2019t gonna go anywhere. And he wouldn\u2019t keep pounding it if he didn\u2019t think that it going somewhere was gonna produce a favorable outcome.<\/p>\n

He also said things in the world are going well. American economy is doing great, South Korean economy is doing great. He even praised the Norks. Said they\u2019ve got great potential. A lot of other presidents would have acted very differently than he did through this scam, he said. He said we\u2019re very lucky that he was the president. And, by the way, he\u2019s only echoing what we\u2019ve said. Everybody, \u201cBoy, listen to this guy\u2019s ego.\u201d It\u2019s not his ego. Well, it may be.<\/p>\n

How many times have I asked you to think what any other Republican in that town would have done under this kind of pressure? They would have folded inside the first week. They would have not only folded, they would have sued for peace. They would have admitted it.<\/p>\n

There was not a single Republican in that town or anywhere else, probably, who would have the stomach or the rear end to endure this anal exam for as long as it\u2019s been going, which you could literally say is since 2015.<\/p>\n

He used to the term “treason” again to describe the scam and the spying on him. And he once again said he, quote, unquote, hopes that law enforcement takes it up. And you know what most of the press questions were about? The press is shouting questions in these things, and most of those questions were about negotiations with North Korea and South Korea.<\/p>\n

The Drive-Bys in the room did not mock him. They did not try to egg him on. They did not try to make fun of him. They did not demand more about the spying. They don\u2019t want to talk about the spying! They don\u2019t want to talk about the investigation. They don\u2019t want to talk about what Barr may or may not do. They didn\u2019t want to give Trump any opportunity to expand on what he had said about that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, does the name Michael Caputo ring a bell?\u00a0 He was one of the Trump campaign people who\u2019s appeared on TV periodically in the last two years.\u00a0 He has been financially ruined via law firms (legal fees) that he\u2019s had to hire dealing with appearances before the Mueller investigators.\u00a0 He\u2019s one of many who have been taken to the brink, and every one of these people stayed loyal to Trump.\u00a0 There\u2019s not a one of them that caved. There\u2019s not a one of them that gave the investigators what they wanted.<\/p>\n

Many of the people on Mueller\u2019s team have, in previous cases, been known to demand witnesses make it up, to recite rather than testify.\u00a0 And by recite, it is meant, “You say what we want you to say, and we will suspend all investigations and we will give you immunity, but you say what we want you to say.”\u00a0 Many of Mueller\u2019s investigators were caught doing this during the Ted Stevens trial in which his conviction was overturned and the case tossed out and the prosecutors on the case reprimanded by the judge for prosecutorial misconduct. Many of these people were on Mueller\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, Caputo was one of the people (he\u2019s from Buffalo) that were constantly harassed, and he was given options to escape all this with some kind of immunity if he would just recite, and he refused to.\u00a0 As such, he has had to make\u00a0public appeals for support\u00a0in paying down his legal fees.\u00a0 He\u2019s one of many. Many of them have not gone public with this, but Caputo is one who did.\u00a0 Well, it turns out he was on Fox Business with Trish Regan, and he learned that an FBI informant investigating Russia had questioned him after speaking with Mueller\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

He said, “I was approached by a Russian national FBI informant in late May of 2016<\/a>.\u00a0 He wanted to give me some dirt on Hillary, and I turned it down.”\u00a0 Caputo said this yesterday.\u00a0 So this is modified attempt at entrapment.\u00a0 This is a modified version of what they wanted to do with Stefan Halper who is the Cambridge professor who has connections with Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, which is the Brit CIA.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got ties to the FBI.\u00a0 He has been used as a spy and an informant by the FBI and the CIA here.\u00a0 He has a farm in Virginia.\u00a0 He\u2019s a well-traveled member of the international intelligence apparatus, if you will, and he attempted to get hired.\u00a0 He attempted to do a number of things.\u00a0 He is up to his neck in the attempt to corrupt George Papadopoulos.\u00a0 He attempted to get hired as a foreign policy strategist for the Trump campaign.\u00a0 Sam Clovis, I think, is who he interviewed with. He ended up not being hired.<\/p>\n

Everybody knows what would have happened had he been hired. He would have started reaching out as a member of the Trump campaign team to contacts that he has in Russian intelligence.\u00a0 Now, he\u2019s not a big Russia fan, but he knows Russian intelligence operatives.\u00a0 All it would have taken is for Halper or somebody like him to get hired, be officially a member of the Trump foreign policy team, then start conversing with Russians, and then Halper would find a convenient way for the FBI to learn of this, and they would then have had their collusion, folks.<\/p>\n

This is how close we came.<\/p>\n

This is how close they came to pulling this off.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t searching for collusion.\u00a0 There wasn\u2019t any.\u00a0 They were trying to create it!\u00a0 And this is nature of the spying.\u00a0 And there are many more variables on this.\u00a0 Well, what happened to Caputo is much like what happened in the Trump Tower situation.\u00a0 A bunch of phony Russians call and say, “Hey, we got some dirt on Hillary,” and Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner supposedly take the meeting. And then when they learn that it\u2019s a false premise, and the purpose of the meeting is to go easy on Russian adoption laws or some such thing, then they disband and leave.<\/p>\n

But it was an attempt. It was an attempt — and they came close. It was an attempt to be able to publish a story that the Trump campaign met with Russian government operatives to receive dirt on Hillary.\u00a0 Bingo! We would have collusion.\u00a0 They tried the same thing with Caputo.\u00a0 “Caputo said that he was approached by a Russian national FBI informant,” in other words, a Russian national working for the FBI, “in late May of 2016,” and this guy wanted to give Caputo working for the Trump campaign some “dirt on Hillary.”<\/p>\n

His instincts were to turn it down.\u00a0 “Caputo said he only learned that the individual was an FBI informant after he sat down with Mueller\u2019s investigators.”\u00a0 He didn\u2019t know at the time.\u00a0 His instincts were serving him well.\u00a0 “When they asked me about him, I told them what I knew.\u00a0 By their faces, I knew that it was someone they had sent to me.\u00a0 It was after my interrogation with the Mueller team that I went out, hired private investigators and found out the guy had used a fake name, Henry Greenberg, and that he had been working with the FBI for 17 years.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in Portland, Oregon. This is C.J., and I am glad to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. What a great honor to be on the phone with you, sir. My question is, do you think that there will be attempts down the road to try and link Trump now to Julian Assange, you know, to discredit him further? It seems like they\u2019ll go to any length now and the gloves are off, there\u2019s no holds barred on what they\u2019ll do. So I\u2019m wondering if they\u2019re gonna try and link Trump now to Julian Assange and try and tie him in with that whole thing now. Do you think that\u2019s even a possibility?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, here\u2019s my instinctive reaction. And of course I have to say that — when you say, will there be attempts to link Trump to Assange. Well, do you mean — let me clarify something first — do you mean just as there were attempts to link Trump with Russia?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Well, let\u2019s keep in mind that the apparatus for linking Trump with Russia is gone. All those people, Comey and McCabe and Clapper and Brennan, they\u2019re all gone, and the access they now have is the media. The Department of Justice and the FBI is now run by Trump people. So any effort to try to replicate Trump-Russia collusion with Trump-WikiLeaks collusion probably will not happen within the realm of the American Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

Now, the intelligence community is another thing. Those people operate independent of the president, if they wish to and by design. The CIA director, the National Security Agency director, these people can do what they want, but it\u2019s gonna be tougher for them to find compatriots in the Department of Justice. They had one chance here in their Trump-Russia collusion business in terms of an official attempt.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, an ongoing attempt in the media to link Trump to Assange? Of course that\u2019s gonna happen. We\u2019ve seen evidence of it already. I played the montage that CNN is airing seemingly every 10 minutes of Trump praising Assange, praising WikiLeaks. But Trump at his little press gaggle in the Oval Office today distanced himself from WikiLeaks, didn\u2019t know anything about WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n

Of course everybody loved what WikiLeaks was doing when they were publishing the Podesta emails. But I think it\u2019s gonna be tough — you get one shot at things like this. Well, it\u2019s not really true to say you only get one shot, but this was a coordinated effort sponsored by a sitting president and his minions against a presidential candidate of the opposing party, who then defied all of their efforts and was elected.<\/p>\n

So the effort continued. These Obama administration people, the leaders of the FBI and CIA continued the operation while Trump was president. But now to mount something just like it, linking Trump to Assange, they\u2019re not gonna have — especially not with Barr saying that all of that is going to be investigated. It\u2019s gonna be really tough to mount something like that again. But don\u2019t let that sidetrack you. The media is gonna continue in its full-fledged efforts unabated to destroy Trump and get him out of office. I mean, before the election, if certainly not by virtue of the election. The media isn\u2019t gonna stop.<\/p>\n

So if the media wants to try to orchestrate a campaign with these now disgraced and out-of-power former Obama administration officials, they certainly can. If they want to bring Comey in and if they want to have Comey be interviewed about his knowledge of Trump\u2019s ties to WikiLeaks from when Comey ran the FBI, they can do it. If they want to bring in Clapper, if they want to bring in Brennan to do the same thing, and they can make it up as much as they want.<\/p>\n

CNN can bring these guys in and all of these gone people, all these resigned or fired people can go on TV and say, “We were very concerned during the campaign about the Trump campaign\u2019s links to WikiLeaks. We didn\u2019t have a chance to fully explore it because we were so concerned about Trump\u2019s connections to Russia.\u201d But they can do all of that they want.<\/p>\n

They can make it up. They can continue to make it up like they were making it up for the last three years. They can do all of that they want. The thing that will be missing is that they will not have the investigative powers of the Department of Justice, i.e., the FBI propelling them, unless they can find some rogue agents help them, but it\u2019s still gonna be rogue.<\/p>\n

So I think the smear campaign on Trump will never stop. The attempt to link him to bad actors is never gonna stop. But there won\u2019t be a new Mueller type investigation to look into Trump and WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n

But again, they don\u2019t need that, folks. The thing that you can\u2019t forget — and I\u2019m sure you won\u2019t — now that they have suffered this deep humiliation and now that they\u2019re a little scared to death — remember what this investigation, quote, unquote, was — do not ever forget this. It was not an investigation. There was never any collusion.<\/p>\n

What this was — in fact, to state this, I\u2019m gonna go back to what really was the origin of all this. The origin of all of this was to exonerate Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton had violated numerous federal laws with her server, her illegal private email server with which and on which she was trafficking in classified data.<\/p>\n

In addition, there was the Clinton Foundation. She was selling influence to foreign buyers on the come under the assumption she was gonna be president. She was raking in money, she and her husband, were raking in money on the premise that they were gonna be back in the White House and could therefore repay that money in policy ways or who knows however which way.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton had to be exonerated. She\u2019s a Democrat nominee. They have to cleanse her. They had to exonerate her of all criminal activity. They had to not just insulate her, they had to exonerate her. And Comey did that on July 5, 2016, with that press conference. I submit to you that everything that followed had to also be covered up. What followed was then the attempt to sabotage the Trump campaign. That became an attempt to sabotage the Trump presidency, and that became a silent coup to reverse the election results. And the Mueller investigation was the culmination of all those efforts.<\/p>\n