{"id":307903,"date":"2019-05-01T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=307903"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:26:05","slug":"trump-didnt-obstruct-justice-hes-tried-to-protect-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/01\/trump-didnt-obstruct-justice-hes-tried-to-protect-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Didn\u2019t Obstruct Justice, He Tried to Protect the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Vero Beach, Florida. Mary, great to have you. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m great. And so are you. I just want to say that everything President Trump has ever done or said regarding the Mueller so-called investigation was never obstruction of justice. What he was communicating at all times was his objection to injustice. Every time I hear “obstruction of justice” I substitute “objection to injustice” because that\u2019s what it was.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know, that is an excellent way to put this. And for those of you who think that it\u2019s a little bit too cute by half, let me put this in context \u2018cause I understand exactly her point. She\u2019s saying that Trump did not obstruct justice. It was the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Trump. He hasn\u2019t done anything that is being alleged, and he knows it. Furthermore, not only does he know that he didn\u2019t collude with Russia, but he did this on his own. This is one of his, maybe the greatest, achievements of his life, and he did it without the usual network of help. You have to realize that not his entire party, his entire party was not behind him. There were many in his own party who wanted him to lose, were trying to undermine his effort.<\/p>\n

So he\u2019s sitting there — this is one of the greatest achievements in his life. In fact, there\u2019s a story on this. There\u2019s an AP story today that attempts to impugn Trump by claiming that his great fear of the Mueller report is that he would be exposed as a fraud. Well, that is the selective use of words designed to further impugn Trump.<\/p>\n

Here it is. \u201cTrump depicted in Mueller report feared being tabbed a fraud.\u201d That\u2019s not what it was. He was afraid they were gonna take this achievement away from him. He got elected president. He did it on his own. He knows he didn\u2019t do any of this. He didn\u2019t collude. He did not obstruct justice.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s not stopped the investigation into this, which he knows was not an investigation. He knows that the deck is totally stacked against him. He\u2019s just supposed roll over and let them have at him, let them try to destroy him? He said, no way. More on this in a minute.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I made a mistake. I just decided to listen to a little bit of this hearing. You know, I\u2019m getting to the point… I\u2019m getting to ticked off; I\u2019m close to exploding. I may need a break here, folks, \u2019cause I\u2019m just… I watched Chris Coons — I guess he\u2019s from Delaware — senator, Democrat, just continue asking Barr about two things that have been nuked to smithereens as irrelevant and didn\u2019t happen. He\u2019s asking Barr about them as though they did happen and that everybody knows it, and doesn\u2019t Barr agree that Trump should have been called out on it?<\/p>\n

The first one: He just sits there and cites this Papadopoulos meeting. This has been destroyed! (Groan!) He\u2019s up there saying (paraphrased), “We know this investigation began when George Papadopoulos of the Trump foreign policy team was bragging to people that the Trump campaign knew the Russians had Hillary emails.” Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not gonna go through the true story. You\u2019ve heard me do this 12 times. That\u2019s not my point. He\u2019s continuing to mischaracterize! That\u2019s not when the investigation began, and that didn\u2019t even happen!<\/p>\n

\"\"Papadopoulos has even mentioned it himself in countless interviews, podcasts, and elsewhere, that he was set up! Now, what I don\u2019t know is if Coons doesn\u2019t know this or if he knows it and is lying about it. If he doesn\u2019t know about it, there\u2019s no excuse. The next thing he lied about (paraphrased): “The Russians offered the Trump campaign ‘dirt\u2019 on Hillary Clinton, and they didn\u2019t report that to the FBI.” This is the famous Trump Tower meeting where (Coons impression), “The Russians called up Trump Jr. and offered\u2019 dirt,\u2019 and Trump Jr. said, ‘Hell, yes, we\u2019ll take the dirt!\u2019 Mr. Attorney General, that is reprehensible. It may not be criminal, but we simply cannot have that in our politics. Don\u2019t you agree?”<\/p>\n

(Barr impression) “Buh, buh, buh…”<\/p>\n

Barr knows it didn\u2019t happen. It didn\u2019t happen! The Russians… That whole thing was another setup. It was a setup by Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS with the Rush honeypot, Veselnitskaya. (disgusted sigh) The problem here is the lack of power that the truth has on members of the Democrat Party. It\u2019s a frustrating thing. Going back to what I was talking about with Trump just a moment ago, Trump\u2019s sitting there these entire two years knowing none of this happened, that there was no colusion. The Russians did not help him beat Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

He did that on his own, and they are trying to take that accomplishment and that achievement away from him. And, in addition, they\u2019re trying to attach criminality to him! And all this time, he knows it didn\u2019t happen. So there is a frame job being run on him, there is a silent coup being run, and he\u2019s supposed to just roll over and let it happen because if he opposes it in any way, this is obstruction of justice? There\u2019s no justice in a silent coup like this! This was no justice in this operation against Trump.<\/p>\n

So Trump attempting to make sure this investigation didn\u2019t get anywhere was simply Trump trying to protect the truth,a nd it gives us stories like this story today that run in the… (pause) It\u2019s AP, wouldn\u2019t you know it? “Trump Depicted in Mueller Report Feared Being Tabbed a Fraud<\/a>.” That\u2019s not what he feared. That word “fraud” is designed to make the reader think that Trump really didn\u2019t win, shouldn\u2019t have won, and Trump was afraid the investigation was gonna uncover that he cheated. That\u2019s not it at all.<\/p>\n

“As the Russia investigation heated up and threatened to shadow Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, he became increasingly concerned. But the portrait painted by special counsel Robert Mueller is not of a president who believed he or anyone on his campaign colluded with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election. Instead, the Trump of the Mueller report is gripped by fear that Americans would question the very legitimacy of his presidency.” What is wrong with that? He knows he didn\u2019t do it. He\u2019s sitting there knowing he didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s watching the total immersion of the American media with the American intelligence apparatus\/the Democrat Party conspire to convince the American people that he is not legitimate — that he\u2019s an illegitimate, unjustly elected president. He wasn\u2019t “gripped by fear.” He was gripped by anger! “Instead, the Trump of the Mueller report is gripped by fear that Americans would question the very legitimacy of his presidency.” That\u2019s exactly what these people were attempting to do, was create the idea in the minds of American voters that Trump had cheated.<\/p>\n

\"\"He\u2019s sitting there the entire 2-1\/2 years knowing it didn\u2019t happen. What would you do? And in spite of this, he didn\u2019t obstruct it. He let this phony, bogus investigation play out. They turned over millions of documents — a million pages of documents — 500 witnesses, who knows how many hours of grand jury testimony, and not a shred of evidence was produced. And yet here we are with Chris Coons, Democrat senator, once again claiming the investigation began because a member of Trump foreign policy team told people that they knew the Russians had Hillary Clinton emails.<\/p>\n

Total BS!<\/p>\n

And then the mischaracterization again of the Trump Tower meeting. The real truth of this is the FBI was trying to plant spies in the Trump campaign. The FBI is worried. Their version is that they\u2019re worried that the Russians have infiltrated the Trump campaign. Well, why didn\u2019t they tell the Trump campaign? They\u2019re getting mad at Trump for not reporting that the Russians offered dirt on Hillary. What, is offering dirt on Hillary some kind of crime? Hillary was out there creating and making up dirt on Trump. It\u2019s called the Steele dossier.<\/p>\n

Is accepting dirt on Hillary Clinton a crime? Yes, it is if you\u2019re in the Washington establishment, if you\u2019re in the Democrat Party, or a member of the stinking, rotten media. What happens if you are a woman running for president and your campaign is imploding and can\u2019t get any traction, and your name happens to be Fauxcahontas? Well, you issue the following tweet: “AG Barr is a disgrace, and his alarming efforts to suppress the Mueller report show that he\u2019s not a credible head of federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n

“He should resign \u2014 and based on the actual facts in the Mueller report, Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the President.” Barr has not done anything of the sort! He has not suppressed, he has not changed, he has not mischaracterized, and Mueller has not accused him of doing so. And yet here comes this brain-dead, phony Indian of a Harvard Law professor lying in every word of this tweet, and we\u2019re supposed to sit by idly.<\/p>\n

“Well, Rush, this is just politics. You gotta calm down. This is just how politics is played.” Yeah, politics is played like the Democrats get to lie, make it up, destroy, impugn, ruin people\u2019s lives, and we\u2019re just supposed to sit there and let it happen because that\u2019s the rule. Breathtaking, all of this. Let me go back to the phones here while I simmer down. Gene, Charlotte, North Carolina. Welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, pleasure to talk with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just am wondering: If the Mueller report is correct and the Russians didn\u2019t start trying to hack Hillary\u2019s emails until five hours after Trump asked them to, then that would mean that the WikiLeaks statement is true. They did not get the emails from the Russians.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hmm. Let me put this in the timeline grinder. Let\u2019s see… (muttering) WikiLeaks starts in October of 2018. … The emails, phishing attempts… not from hacking… The Democrats claim that Russia supplies WikiLeaks; WikiLeaks denied it. But Russia did not start looking at Hillary\u2019s emails \u2019til after…? (stops muttering) You may have a point. (interruption) Well, that\u2019s how fast I was processing the timeline. You may actually have a point. If the Russians only started hacking Hillary\u2019s emails after Trump\u2019s joke, then maybe WikiLeaks didn\u2019t get what they got from Russia, which they didn\u2019t. (laughing) Podesta, the fool, fell for a phishing attack.<\/p>\n

The Russians didn\u2019t hack Podesta\u2019s emails!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s another big lie that\u2019s out there.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Gene, I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I did it again. I just tuned into these hearings and I\u2019m telling you, folks, I had to watch that smarmy Dick Blumenthal from Connecticut try to entrap Barr. (impression) \u201cMr. Attorney General, have you discussed cases and their outcome with anybody in the White House?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think I have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t remember a single case?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cWould you recuse yourself from any of this?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. I\u2019m not gonna recuse myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll right, then, well, let\u2019s go to a couple of presidential lies that he told in December of 2016 when he said he didn\u2019t know if it was the Russians or the Chinese or some fat guy in his pajamas in a bedroom that could have been tampering.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, and?\u201d It\u2019s almost like we\u2019re watching a replay of the Kavanaugh hearings here except that Barr is Kavanaugh and there is no Blasey Ford here. Ah, I guess Mueller is Blasey Ford. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

Ron in West Sacramento, California. Great to have you with us on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Longtime listener, first-time caller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, it\u2019s great to have you here. You\u2019ve probably been a listener for over 30 years since you\u2019re out in \u2013<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I met with the Davis mayor that you debated with and that was a sort of a funny thing —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, the mayor of Davis. Those were fun days. On the Channel 13 out there, which was the ABC News affiliate at the time, I debated the mayor of Davis who was a socialist two or three days a week on the 5pm news out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, anyway I wanted to say —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was like a Mayor Pete, was like a Mayor Pete, but he wasn\u2019t —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Oh, yeah. These guys here, I have never seen the stupidity of these people in my lifetime. I have never seen the Democratic Party just go so to the left in all my years. This is a death sentence for the Democratic Party. I really think it is. I hope Mueller gets up there and I hope they subpoena Weissmann and Jeannie Rhee and I hope they just go down the line. I want these investigations to keep on continuing because I tell you what, they are signing their death certificate. That\u2019s all they\u2019re doing, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019d like to think so. You know, a lot of people think that the Democrat Party behavior in this circumstance is the equivalent of rendering themselves a really tiny minority. The problem is that they\u2019re doing this, in large part, because their base voters are demanding this. Now, not that these Democrats in this committee don\u2019t have it in them to do this anyway. They do, and they may in fact hold these ideas themselves, but I guarantee you that a lot of this is performing for their base voters.<\/p>\n

Their base voters are genuine lunatics. I\u2019m not throwing a word around casually, by the way, folks, like lunatics, idiot, wacko. It\u2019s a purposeful use of the word. And how much it\u2019s gonna harm them, it isn\u2019t gonna harm them with their base. And I think it\u2019s safe to say that whatever standards of decency that our society used to have have long been blown through, and I don\u2019t think they hold anymore.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re talking about a day in the past where this kind of behavior would repulse independent, nonpartisan, you know, halfway interested in politics people, that this kind of behavior would just repulse them. \u201cMy God, what\u2019s happened to these people?\u201d But we\u2019ve blown past those standards of decency now. And they no longer govern.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of the problems that we face is that the guardrails, the standards, the institutions that always provided the backstop against radical, insane, off the wall behavior and actions have deteriorated and they\u2019re not there in nearly number or strength that they used to be. So while I wish that what you were saying was true, and acknowledge that in days gone by it would have been, it\u2019s not necessarily the case.<\/p>\n

In fact, to a lot of Americans these Democrats with their questions and treatment of Barr today and behavior are heroes. And they are lying through their teeth. They are continuing every lie about this investigation that so-called proved Trump collusion after the Mueller report comes out and says there wasn\u2019t any! They are continuing to lie about everything that has been blown to smithereens and dispelled. I appreciate the call, Ray.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mentioned Chris Coons and Richard Blumenthal.<\/p>\n

Coons, these people are just continuing the lies that have been dispelled by the Mueller report, in fact, on how the investigation began. Here\u2019s Coons. He is a senator, Democrat, Delaware, telling Barr why he thinks the investigation was started in the first place.<\/p>\n

COONS: The reason we had this investigation in the first place was George Papadopoulos was told the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, the Russians had a direct contact to Donald Trump Jr. and offered to give dirt about his father\u2019s opponent. Donald Trump Jr. said, \u201cI love it,\u201d and invited the campaign chairman and president\u2019s son-in-law to — the campaign chairman —<\/p>\n