{"id":308015,"date":"2019-05-02T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=308015"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:09:23","slug":"highlights-from-barrs-spectacular-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/02\/highlights-from-barrs-spectacular-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from Barr\u2019s Spectacular Testimony, Which Made Democrat Heads Explode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: During the busy broadcast today, folks, I\u2019m gonna be going back to yesterday for audio sound bites. Attorney General Barr was spectacular later in the day yesterday when we had gone off the air, we had concluded our program, and I wanted to play also for you the second half of the Mazie Hirono slander assault on the attorney general. I want to mix that with things that happened this morning. They\u2019re all interrelated.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, let\u2019s go back to yesterday. Here we are starting with audio sound bite number 26. I want you to hear this. I referenced this. This happened near the close of the program yesterday. As you know, I say now for what must be the 10,000th time, there is an ongoing body of thought that the investigation into Trump colluding with Russia began at the end of June or July in 2016 when George Papadopoulos, at a bar in London, told the Australian ambassador that the Russians had 30,000 emails. And then the Australian ambassador named Alexander Downer then called the FBI. &#8220;Hey, you guys might be interested to know that there\u2019s this Trump guy here bragging about the fact that they all know at the Trump campaign the Russians have some Hillary Clinton emails.&#8221; And that supposedly is what triggered the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t. It\u2019s made up. Papadopoulos was set up by the FBI. The investigation began long before Papadopoulos had all this happen to him. As you who are regular listeners here know, Durbin tried to run the Papadopoulos story by Barr, and he didn\u2019t get very far.<\/p>\n<p>DURBIN: The Australian government had told our FBI the Trump foreign policy aid, George Papadopoulos, said he\u2019d been contacted by a person on Russia\u2019s behalf offering to assist the Trump campaign by releasing information damaging to Hillary Clinton. That was all in the Mueller report. Do you believe that it was an appropriate predicate for opening a counterintelligence investigation to determine whether Russia had targeted people in the Trump campaign to offer hacked information that might impact a presidential election?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JZUSFNgf8Po\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m sitting here in utter awe of the stupidity or arrogance of Durbin thinking that he\u2019s gonna outsmart Barr on this. Barr knows the Papadopoulos story, and he knows that it has nothing to do with triggering an FBI investigation into collusion. Barr knows everything. His answer to Durbin was fabulous.<\/p>\n<p>BARR: I\u2019d have to see exactly what the report was for Downer, the Australian Downer, and exactly what he quoted Papadopoulos as saying. But from what you just read, I\u2019m not sure what the correlation was between the Russians having dirt and jumping to the conclusion that that suggested foreknowledge of the hacking.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He just slices and dices it. This is what happened. These people on the left, they believe the crap that they\u2019re fed by their media or by their own sources and staff. So they\u2019ve got someone out there who believes that this whole thing began when Papadopoulos, on the Trump foreign policy advisory team, was running around bragging that he knew that the Russians had a bunch of Hillary Clinton emails. So Durbin\u2019s question is, &#8220;Don\u2019t you think that\u2019s a legitimate reason to start investigating Trump? Don\u2019t you think that\u2019s a legitimate reason to launch a counterintelligence investigation?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barr says, &#8220;Well, you know, I\u2019d have to actually see what the report was from Downer, the Australian,&#8221; see, he knows who he is, &#8220;and exactly what he quoted Papadopoulos.&#8221; This is Barr\u2019s way of saying, &#8220;You\u2019re not telling this story accurately, Senator. You\u2019re trying to get away with setting me up, Senator, but you\u2019re not telling this story accurately, and I\u2019m not gonna fall for your premise.&#8221; And then the double slice:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-050219-Barr-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-050219-Barr-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-050219-Barr-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But for what you just read, Senator, I\u2019m not sure what the correlation was between the Russians having dirt (i.e., Hillary\u2019s emails) and then jumping to the conclusion that that suggested foreknowledge of the hacking.&#8221; I\u2019m sure Durbin\u2019s sitting there with his head exploding. &#8220;What do you mean, hacking? I didn\u2019t ask you about hacking.&#8221; Yeah, but what Barr knows is that the hacking of the DNC servers happened long before this Papadopoulos stuff did and at about the same time.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no correlation between the two. The Democrats, one day, think that it\u2019s the hacking of their servers that required this investigation to begin. That Trump might have known about it! It\u2019s just convoluted and all over the place, and it\u2019s like they know 30% of something while thinking they know 100% of it, and they\u2019re asking somebody who does know the full story, thinking they\u2019re smarter than he is.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, Durbin\u2019s Papadopoulos story &#8212; well, their Papadopoulos story &#8212; also doesn\u2019t jibe with the claim that the Russians only tried for the first time to hack Hillary\u2019s emails after Trump\u2019s joke. Remember we had that yesterday. (impression) &#8220;The Russians, five hours after Trump\u2019s joke, made their first effort &#8212; made their first effort &#8212; to hack Hillary\u2019s email.&#8221; Her server had been shut down for a year. Mueller\u2019s report is full of so much BS and so much incorrect information, it\u2019s hard to know whether it\u2019s purposeful or not.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s joke was in July 2017. Papadopoulos was told the Russians had her emails in April of 2016, and started telling other people about it that summer. Something here doesn\u2019t compute. None of this makes any sense, because there\u2019s so many people involved in setting up this scam that not everybody knows the timeline and details. You\u2019ve got different people who think they know what happened telling different stories, and it\u2019s gonna fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>Here, grab sound bite number 29 next. This is Barr. We didn\u2019t see this. This is where all of this is going. This is why the Democrats are desperate to ruin Barr\u2019s reputation. This is why they\u2019re assaulting him. This is why they\u2019re impugning. This is why they\u2019re slandering him and calling him a liar. This is the question here from Senator Mike Crapo, the Republican from Idaho, asking Barr about the Steele dossier.<\/p>\n<p>CRAPO: When did the DOJ and the FBI&#8230;? If you know, when did the DOJ and the FBI know that the Democratic Party paid for Christopher Steele\u2019s dossier, which then served as the foundation for the Carter Page FISA application?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-307855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-050119-Barr-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-050119-Barr-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-050119-Barr-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>BARR: I don\u2019t know the answer to that.<\/p>\n<p>CRAPO: Are you investigating to determine that?<\/p>\n<p>BARR: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>CRAPO: Did the Department of Justice, the FBI, and other federal agencies engage in investigative activities before an official investigation was launched in July 2016?<\/p>\n<p>BARR: I don\u2019t know the answer to that, but that\u2019s one of the &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CRAPO: You\u2019re also investigating that?<\/p>\n<p>BARR: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>CRAPO: All right. Thank you very much, Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Their heads were exploding. That was, again, yesterday afternoon. So Barr telegraphs, &#8220;Yeah, we\u2019re looking into this dossier. We\u2019re looking into the FISA warrant process. We\u2019re gonna find out who paid for that dossier. We\u2019re gonna find out where it got started and what\u2019s in it, and we\u2019re gonna find out where this investigation began, because we know it began before July of 2016.&#8221; Barr has already begun the investigation, is what he has admitted to here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>And their heads are exploding for the rest of the day, all night, and continuing into this morning. Go back to sound bite 28. This is Barr during a Q&amp;A during the Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday. Barr is talking about allegations of obstruction of justice against Trump. Remember, they want to know, &#8220;Why didn\u2019t Mueller find any obstruction? Why didn\u2019t you find any obstruction? There was plenty of obstruction. It\u2019s all over the report. Why didn\u2019t you find it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Barr\u2019s explanation. This is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WmYnu7zQMJc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BARR: In the situation of the president, who has constitutional authority to supervise proceedings: If, in fact, a proceeding was not well founded &#8212; if it was a groundless proceeding, if it was based on false allegations &#8212; the president does not have to sit there, constitutionally, and allow it to run its course. The president could terminate that proceeding, and it would not be a corrupt intent because he was being falsely accused and he would be worried about the impact on his administration. That\u2019s important, because most of the obstruction claims that are being made here or episodes, do involve the exercise of the president\u2019s constitutional authority. And we now know that he was being falsely accused.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I mean, the explosion that happened on this sound bite! When he said this, these people, their heads had to explode. In this sound bite of 48 seconds, Barr is saying everybody knows the president was falsely accused. Therefore, if he\u2019s falsely accused and he knows he didn\u2019t do it and there\u2019s an investigation into what he didn\u2019t do, he cannot obstruct it, especially when he is exercising constitutional authority.<\/p>\n<p>The president doesn\u2019t have to sit there and allow a bunch of lies to be told about things he did not do that would result in harm to his administration. He doesn\u2019t have to sit there and put up with it! If he knows that he is falsely accused &#8212; and we all know now that he was, Barr said &#8212; the fact that he is trying to stop an unfair and unjust process does not mean he obstructed. Folks, I guarantee you, this one bite there is the reason they are losing their minds last night and continuing into today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Attorney General Barr was spectacular later in the day yesterday when we had gone off the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":308045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Highlights from Barr&#039;s Spectacular Testimony, Which Made Democrat Heads Explode - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/02\/highlights-from-barrs-spectacular-testimony\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Highlights from Barr&#039;s Spectacular Testimony, Which Made Democrat Heads Explode - 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