RUSH: Hi, folks. Rush Limbaugh here and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m just jumping straight into it. This report is exactly what I thought it was gonna be, and it is being reacted to exactly as I thought it would be reacted to. There is no need for a 400-page report. There\u2019s only one reason for a 400-page report, and that is to create the news environment that is occurring right now.<\/p>\n
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This report could have been issued in one page: We found no evidence of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign, period, and we don\u2019t have enough to say that there was any obstruction of justice. You could have done this in one page, maybe two, and be done with it.<\/p>\n
But, no. I\u2019ve had a chance to read some of this report today — by no means all of it, it\u2019s 400 pages. And, my friends, I\u2019m telling you, this report is made to order for the Democrat Party to ignore what is the only important thing about this: no collusion, no obstruction, period. That\u2019s it!<\/p>\n
But if you turn on cable news today — and it doesn\u2019t matter what channel — all you\u2019re going to get is ongoing discussions and reading of various excerpts from the report with expert analysts explaining how, “Why didn\u2019t Mueller charge obstruction? Why, it\u2019s all in here.” No, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
This entire thing is bogus from the beginning. I am unable to avoid redundancy here, folks. I\u2019m unable to avoid repeating things I\u2019ve said over and over. None of this actually is real, except that it is. None of this was ever necessary. There never was any collusion, and there never was any evidence of any collusion.<\/p>\n
This report is just the latest installment of the ongoing effort to convince as many Americans as possible that Donald Trump is illegitimate, that his election was illegitimate, that he\u2019s a bad guy and that he doesn\u2019t deserve to be president. He may not have colluded with Russia, but he sure as hell tried to get in the way of our investigation.<\/p>\n
There should not have been an investigation, is the whole point, and this wasn\u2019t an investigation. This is the seminal point that I can make. It is incorrect to characterize what Robert Mueller\u2019s thing was as an investigation. When Robert Mueller was shown the file, the James Comey investigation file, when he was shown that after having been named, there was nothing in it.<\/p>\n
There has never been any evidence of collusion with Russia between Trump or anybody on his campaign to affect the outcome of the presidential election. And the attorney general said so today again and again and again. And this morning before the report was released the Drive-By Media and media complex and Democrat complex were livid that Barr was gonna go first. They were livid.<\/p>\n
Well, this is what happens when you lose elections, Democrats. You don\u2019t get to set the agenda on things. The Justice Department does press conferences all the time announcing the results of investigations. They\u2019re out there claiming that this thing was rigged from top to bottom. Barr is acting as Trump\u2019s personal lawyer, ignoring for the fact that Eric Holder said a couple of times he was Barack Obama\u2019s wingman. They applauded that, didn\u2019t have any problem with that.<\/p>\n
Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, these people are making fools of themselves, continuing now their belief that Trump did do something and no matter what Barr said today, this report is gonna prove it.<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s go to Barr. This is what is important. Folks, I can\u2019t express this enough. And I wish I had two or three different ways of saying this all the same. This wasn\u2019t an investigation. It was an attempt at a coup. It was an attempt to throw Donald Trump out of office and nullify the election results of 2016. It was disguised as an investigation.<\/p>\n
It was disguised as an attempt to find out if the Russians had indeed affected our elections. And so this thing that was actually a coup occurs under the auspices of an investigation, and everybody called it the investigation so it was established in the mind-set of the American public it was an investigation, but it never was.<\/p>\n
You read this report — as I said, I have had a chance to read some pages — and it recounts everything you\u2019ve read in the New York Times and the Washington Post about collusion before concluding there wasn\u2019t any! It\u2019s made to order for people who want to continue running this operation to get rid of Trump. It is made to order to be able to ignore and obfuscate what Barr has now informed and what the report itself informs. The report itself says there was no collusion.<\/p>\n
So two years ago we start out here with a so-called investigation on collusion. The report admits there is none, that no American was involved at any time in any way colluding with the Russians to affect the outcome of the election. For two years this nation was roiled. For two years the people of this country were made to believe that there was such collusion, that their president was a traitor.<\/p>\n
Now on the day the report comes out, that has been forgotten, as though it never happened. And now it is the president obstructed justice. And Mueller has conveniently dropped 10 little bird drops in there for the media to explore and examine. I\u2019ll give you an example. “We can\u2019t conclusively exonerate \u2013” that\u2019s a partial quote. That\u2019s not the standard. People don\u2019t have to prove their innocence in this country. That\u2019s by no means the standard here.<\/p>\n
“We cannot exonerate.” That\u2019s not the role of the prosecutor. It\u2019s not the role of any investigator. You can\u2019t exonerate somebody, and they can\u2019t exonerate themselves. That\u2019s why verdicts are guilty and not guilty. Not “not guilty” and innocent. Not “not guilty and exonerated.” There\u2019s no such thing.<\/p>\n
“We are unable to conclude no criminal conduct occurred.\u201d You\u2019re unable to conclude that no criminal conduct — then what the hell are you writing 400 pages for? You don\u2019t do this to people you\u2019re attempting to prosecute. You find nothing on \u2019em and then submit a 400 page report about it? That isn\u2019t done except in this case.<\/p>\n
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The Drive-Bys are really focusing on something in the report. Apparently one of Trump\u2019s lawyers, Don McGahn, says that Trump told him he\u2019s fed up. He\u2019s fed up with Sessions, he\u2019s ticked off at Sessions, he wants Sessions to go out there and denounce Mueller. And McGahn says that Trump told him to go fire Mueller but McGahn says I don\u2019t want to do that because I don\u2019t want to create another Saturday Night Massacre.<\/p>\n
Well, how about looking at it from Trump\u2019s perspective. He knows he\u2019s being set up here. He knows that he didn\u2019t do what all of this is alleging day in and day out four or five times a day for two years in every media outlet in this country. He knows he didn\u2019t do it. He knows they\u2019re trying to run him out of office. He knows that in their term he\u2019s innocent. What would you do in this circumstance?<\/p>\n
But the bottom line is, Mueller wasn\u2019t fired. So now they\u2019ve gotta say, “Well, Trump wanted to. His intent was to obstruct.” I heard Jeffrey Toobin actually just say this. If you intend to obstruct justice, you may have well have obstructed justice. No, you don\u2019t obstruct justice just by intending to. That requires third-party testimony — what do you mean? He intended to obstruct justice, therefore he did? He didn\u2019t. They cooperated, millions of documents. The president answered written questions.<\/p>\n
Mueller was not fired. Nobody on Mueller\u2019s team was fired, even though Trump had all of the power in the world to fire him if he wanted to, and firing Mueller would not have ended the investigation. So we start out two years ago, two and a half years ago collusion, collusion, collusion, collusion, and today that\u2019s all gone, and now we\u2019re focusing on our president obstructed something that this report says did not happen.<\/p>\n
And Mueller has written it for this exact, precise reason so that this can continue. He even says, Mueller even says in this report, “Congress still has the opportunity to find obstruction of justice.” Never mind Barr has looked at it, a lot of people looked at it, we don\u2019t find any of this rises to the level of obstruction of justice. Doesn\u2019t matter to the media, doesn\u2019t matter to the Democrats. And then here\u2019s old Bobby Mueller turning over the responsibility now to Congress.<\/p>\n
But Trump knew from the beginning of this that he was innocent. He knew that he didn\u2019t collude with Russians. Yet he\u2019s sitting there having to watch this. It\u2019s one of the reasons he\u2019s mad at Sessions for recusing himself in this. It did not happen. Sessions didn\u2019t collude. Sessions didn\u2019t have any reason to recuse himself.<\/p>\n
This report reads, in fact, as if Trump was supposed to cooperate in his own obstruction. And because he didn\u2019t, he\u2019s guilty of obstruction. Donald Trump attempted to obstruct our coup, is how this should read. Donald Trump attempted to obstruct our effort to throw him out of office, is how this report should read. Here\u2019s Barr. We go to the audience starting at the top.<\/p>\n