{"id":308160,"date":"2019-05-03T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=308160"},"modified":"2019-05-06T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:04:45","slug":"obama-spied-on-trump-and-now-everyone-knows-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/03\/obama-spied-on-trump-and-now-everyone-knows-it\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Warpath: Emmet Flood\u2019s Letter Signals a New Phase"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I think it is safe to say that the New York Times story yesterday<\/a> that we were the first to highlight was CYA. They were trying to get out in front of things and acknowledge the FBI had a reason to spy on Trump. But they have failed because the universal conclusion across the spectrum is the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign. That\u2019s what that story essentially acknowledges now.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Right on. Right on. I remember all of these stories, Barack Obama: there\u2019s no spying on Americans. There\u2019s no wiretapping of Donald Trump, said James Comey. All of that\u2019s now out the window. Of course, we knew they were spying because they got the FISA warrant on Carter Page.<\/p>\n

That New York Times story yesterday, they were spying on Papadopoulos, they were trying to entrap Papadopoulos. And there are things in motion that you may not know about. And I\u2019m gonna explain them to you on Open Line Friday today as the program unfolds. Great to have you. Well, I\u2019ll just give you a heads-up.<\/p>\n

I think, based on Trump\u2019s interview last night with Catherine Herridge on Fox News<\/a>, that New York Times story yesterday admitting that they\u2019re spying on Papadopoulos and trying to entrap Papadopoulos, and Emmet Flood, Trump\u2019s lawyer, has sent a four-page letter to William Barr<\/a>, and I think it means that they are on the warpath now.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I think they waited \u2019til Mueller finished, they waited for all of the dust to settle, and I think they are on the warpath, and I think Nadler knows it and I think Pelosi knows it. And I think the Drive-By Media knows it, and I think the rats are scurrying, trying to get out in front of this, as we explained in great detail yesterday.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned at the top of the program that I think that the White House is on the warpath now regarding the Mueller investigation and the FBI, the DOJ spying on the Trump campaign. I don\u2019t know when it\u2019s all gonna fall out, but I think that the pieces of their strategy are being assembled and we are close to seeing whatever they\u2019re planning be implemented.<\/p>\n

To set this up, I want to go back just to remind you, the New York Times story yesterday<\/a>, it was first made available to me via tweet from somebody who had seen it. And the tweet was written in such a way that the New York Times apparently is writing a story that now acknowledges the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And that I have learned is exactly how the Drive-By Media, who don\u2019t work at the New York Times, actually did interpret the story. When they first saw the headline, when they first heard about the story, they were gulping. They were going, \u201cOh, no.\u201d The New York Times is actually now admitting — this is the story where they tried to get some honeypot two or three different times, two or three different ways to entrap George Papadopoulos who, by the way, I\u2019m going to be interviewing next Tuesday for the upcoming issue of The Limbaugh Letter.<\/a><\/p>\n

And so the Times story yesterday, if you read the whole thing, was an attempt to get out in front of what I think is being put in place by the White House, the Barr investigation that has begun, by the way. And Barr himself has acknowledged that in the testimony up on Capitol Hill this week. I think everybody knows in this campaign \u2013 I think it\u2019s why Comey wrote his op-ed last week. I think it\u2019s why the New York Times had this story, everybody\u2019s trying to get out in front of the inspector general report and what the Barr investigation\u2019s gonna be. Because the people involved in this, including those in the media who were complicit, know full well they were running a hoax, a full-fledged scandal.<\/p>\n

Now, what happened last night that tipped me off that something is on the verge of happening, the White House released a four-page letter written by Emmet Flood. Emmet Flood is White House counsel for Donald Trump. And the letter that he wrote is to the attorney general, William Barr. I would love to read the whole thing to you, but I\u2019m not going to.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s four pages. If you haven\u2019t seen it, we\u2019ll put the link at RushLimbaugh.com. It will open as a PDF in your browser with the link that we have<\/a>, and then if you want, you can print that as a PDF and have it as a separate stand alone PDF file either on your phone or your laptop, but it will originally open as a PDF file in your computer browser.<\/p>\n

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“Dear Mr. Attorney General: I write on behalf of the office of the president to memorialize concerns relating to the special counsel report and to address executive privilege issues associated with its release.” And that right there tells you, executive privilege issues, they\u2019re getting ready for hardball.<\/p>\n

Now, the Flood letter is the White House response to the Mueller report. And parts of this letter are classically excellent and great and had me standing up and cheering, while at the same time making my blood boil all over again to realize what actually was perpetrated here.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe SCO Report suffers from an extraordinary legal defect: It quite deliberately fails to comply with the requirements of governing law.\u201d In other words, the White House response is this report is not even legal.<\/p>\n

\u201cLest the report\u2019s release be taken as a precedent or perceived as somehow legitimating the defect,\u201d the lawlessness of the report. \u201cI write with both the president and future presidents in mind to make the following points clear.\u00a0 I begin with the SCO stated conclusion on the obstruction question: The SCO concluded that the evidence \u2018prevent[ed] [it] from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred.\u2019 But conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred was not the SCO\u2019s assigned task, because making conclusive determinations of innocence is never the task of the federal prosecutor.\u00a0 What prosecutors are supposed to do is complete an investigation and then either ask the grand jury to return an indictment or decline to charge the case,\u201d and that is it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen prosecutors decline to charge, they make that decision not because they have conclusively determin[ed] that no criminal conduct occurred, but rather because they do not believe that the investigated conduct constitutes a crime for which all the elements can be proven to the satisfaction of a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, if you don\u2019t think you can make the case, if you\u2019ve investigated, you\u2019re a prosecutor, and you don\u2019t have the goods, you drop it. You don\u2019t keep searching until you can exonerate the accused because that\u2019s not the job of any prosecutor. The prosecutor either has the goods or he doesn\u2019t. If he doesn\u2019t, that\u2019s it. He doesn\u2019t announce what he\u2019s got, he doesn\u2019t impugn the accused, he doesn\u2019t say “we couldn\u2019t conclusively exonerate.” You don\u2019t do any of that. And that\u2019s why this report, Mr. Flood essentially says on many other points, is illegal, essentially violates the law and ethics.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cIn the American justice system,\u201d Mr. Attorney General, \u201cinnocence is presumed; there is never any need for prosecutors to conclusively determine,\u201d the innocence of the accused because that\u2019s the starting point. The accused never has to establish his innocence. He never has to exonerate himself. And it\u2019s not the job of the prosecutor to exonerate because the accused is innocent from the get-go. And if you can\u2019t prove it, you don\u2019t have a case.<\/p>\n

This is why I\u2019ve said this report can be done in two pages. It didn\u2019t need 448. All those pages are to slime and smear Trump by listing a bunch of garbage that could not be used to even charge him with a crime and so that stuff should never even have been included is the basic point Flood is making here. That stuff is prejudicial, it\u2019s defamatory. And the fact that you include is when you can\u2019t use it to even make a charge is outrageous. This report has no business being released, period. It had no business being produced as it was, and we\u2019re getting it on record here from the White House that we think this is a travesty of the American judicial system.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Welcome back.\u00a0 Just a couple of more highlights here from the Emmet Flood letter, and I will explain to you what I think all this means at the conclusion.\u00a0 “Second, and equally importantly, in closing its investigation, the SCO [Special Counsel\u2019s Office] had only one job, to ‘provide the attorney general with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination [declining to prosecute] decisions reached by the special counsel.\u2019 Yet the one thing the SCO was obligated to do is the very thing the SCO intentionally and unapologetically refused to do.<\/p>\n

“The SCO made neither a prosecution decision not a declination decision on the obstruction question. Instead. it transmitted a 182-page discussion of raw evidentiary material combined with its own inconclusive observations on the arguable legal significance of the gathered content. As a result, none of the report\u2019s Volume II complied with the obligation imposed by the governing regulation to ‘explain the prosecution or declination decisions reached.'” In other words, they submiedt 180-some-odd pages of Trump BS, things that they don\u2019t like that Trump did.<\/p>\n

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Not things that made them decide or not that he was chargeable or not.\u00a0 They just planted a bunch of BS destined for the House, destined for impeachment, in violation of the charge that special counsels have.\u00a0 You either produce the evidence that you\u2019re using to charge, or you explain why you\u2019re declining to charge.\u00a0 But you don\u2019t do what Mueller has done! You don\u2019t list all of this raw stuff that is essentially what an FBI file would say before it\u2019s been vetted.\u00a0 The only reason… They\u2019re livid about this at the White House, and they damn well ought to be.<\/p>\n

“The [Special Counsel\u2019s Office] instead produced a prosecutorial curiosity part ‘truth commission\u2019 report and part law school exam paper.”\u00a0 This is another key part here: “The president is aware that, had he chosen to do so, he could have withheld such information,” talking about how much cooperation there was in the previous paragraph, how many witnesses, how many documents, how many pages, how cooperative they were with Mueller.<\/p>\n

“The president is aware that had he chosen to do so, he could have withheld such information on executive privilege grounds, basing such an assertion on the established principle that to permit release of such information might have a chilling effect on a president\u2019s advisers, causing them to be less than fully frank…”\u00a0 This is setting up that they\u2019re gonna start declaring executive privilege, and they\u2019re gonna do it on McGahn, because that\u2019s what these clowns in the House want.\u00a0 They don\u2019t even want Mueller.\u00a0 They don\u2019t really want Barr.\u00a0 They want a piece of Mueller, but they really want McGahn — and this is a telegraphing that we\u2019re playing hardball now.<\/p>\n

Screw you people! We\u2019re gonna start declaring executive privilege.\u00a0 We could have done it with Mueller, and we didn\u2019t because we chose to be cooperative.\u00a0 (Final little excerpt here…)\u00a0 “Not so long ago, the idea that a law enforcement official…” This is about Comey. “Not so long ago, the idea that a law enforcement official might provide the press with confidential governmental information for the proclaimed purpose of prompting a criminal investigation of an identified individual would have troubled Americans of all political persuasions.<\/p>\n

“That the head of our country\u2019s top law enforcement agency [the FBI] has actually done so to the president of the United States should frighten every friend of individual liberty. Under our system of government, unelected executive branch officers and intelligence agency personnel are supposed to answer to the person elected by the people — the president — and not the other way around.”\u00a0 These people don\u2019t answer to Comey! Nobody answers to Comey in the executive branch.<\/p>\n

“This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue; it is a matter of having a government responsible to the people, and, again, not the other way around. In the partisan commotion surrounding the released report, it would be well to remember that what can be done to a president can be done to any of us.”\u00a0 I gotta take a break.\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna tell you what I think this letter and other little bread crumbs out there mean.\u00a0 So hang on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 Now, this Emmet Flood letter to William Barr I just excerpted to you, I think indicates that the White House now on the warpath.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s why Comey had his op-ed a couple days ago, and the honeypot story in the New York Times about Papadopoulos, admitting the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign. It\u2019s all starting to come together now.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We were overtaken by that the New York Times story yesterday.\u00a0 I fretted all day that maybe I was spending too much time on it, but then I found out today, “No way!”\u00a0 It was crucially important, because the upshot of it was that the New York Times was forced to admit the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign, something Obama has denied, something Clapper has denied, something Brennan has denied. They\u2019ve all denied it, but they had to admit it yesterday.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, you\u2019re not hearing much about the Flood letter in the Drive-By Media today, and there\u2019s a reason for it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they understand its relevance and importance.\u00a0 The only reference to it I saw today was Juan Williams of Fox, and he was mocking any Republican or conservative journalist that might think the Flood letter to the attorney general matters.\u00a0 Well, if you have a chance to go read it, it\u2019s brilliantly written, and it\u2019s understandable, and it decimates the special counsel report while explaining how cooperative the White House was.<\/p>\n

It savages Comey and his usurpation of constitutional power he does not have.\u00a0 It savages the Special Counsel\u2019s Office and report for turning the American system of justice upside down in releasing a report in a manner it should never have been prepared.\u00a0 If there were no charges against anybody in it, then this thing is corrupt as it exists.\u00a0 That\u2019s my word, not his. But I\u2019m telling you, it is — and any honest prosecutor will tell you: This Mueller report is a travesty.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not gonna charge anybody, you don\u2019t list all of this stuff that you think they did that you personally disapprove of, unless you are continuing to run an operation to get rid of \u2019em, which they are. And this was designed to be used by Democrats in the House to start their so-called impeachment proceedings.\u00a0 Now, let me tell you what I think the Flood letter means, and I am wild guessing. Well, it\u2019s not a wild guess.\u00a0 There is some informed guessing going on.<\/p>\n

My point is, I haven\u2019t spoken to anybody about this. So you have to give me a wide berth in being wrong.\u00a0 I find it fascinating, by the way. This letter is… To anybody that can think and has a broad-based enough knowledge of this whole scam, this whole hoax, this letter should provide a lot of information.\u00a0 It ought to answer a lotta questions about motivation to the Drive-Bys and everybody who\u2019s — and I think some of them do know.\u00a0 They\u2019re trying to get out in front of this now.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to excuse all of this behavior the past three years in advance of the inspector general report and the Barr investigation. I think that this letter from Emmet Flood to William Barr indicates that Trump is on the warpath.\u00a0 And I had that really confirmed for me last night when I saw Trump being interviewed by Catherine Herridge at Fox News, in which he said he\u2019s very close to declassifying everything having to do with the FISA warrant applications and that he\u2019s held back — he\u2019s held back — because he wanted all of this to settle.<\/p>\n

He knows the people running this scam against him, he knows how dirty they are, and he wanted it to wrap up.\u00a0 I think this explains why we got this op-ed from Comey.\u00a0 Why does he keep inserting himself in this?\u00a0 Self-preservation.\u00a0 It\u2019s why the New York Times ran story about the honeypot working with Stefan Halper trying to entrap Papadopoulos.\u00a0 They are trying to get out in front and spin what they know is coming.\u00a0 But, folks, there\u2019s gonna be too much of it.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t going to be able to spin their way out of this.<\/p>\n

When any president uses the bully pulpit to put a story out, and if he has good people like Emmet Flood and William Barr — and if you\u2019ve got pit bulls like Rudy Giuliani — to go out there and tell the story, and at the same time declassify all the stuff that they have been petrified was gonna be declassified, there isn\u2019t anybody that can compete with it.\u00a0 Jerry Nadler is gonna be so outmatched.\u00a0 Pencil Neck is gonna be outmatched.\u00a0 Pelosi\u2019s gonna be outmatched.\u00a0 Chuck You Schumer and Feinstein are gonna be outmatched.<\/p>\n

\"\"They\u2019re not gonna be able to keep up with it.<\/p>\n

They can spin the drip, drip, drip like the New York Times yesterday trying to spin this as (sputtering), “Well, y-y-yeah, the FBI had to spy. They had to spy! Papadopoulos was running around telling people that the Russians had Hillary emails.” No, he wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 But this — and Comey\u2019s email, Clapper and these guys going on CNN (sputtering), “Oh, I d-d-don\u2019t think it was spying.\u00a0 I — I — I — I didn\u2019t really say that.”\u00a0 They\u2019re starting to flee now, and they\u2019re trying to individually spin little things, but I suspect that this letter means that they\u2019re gonna open the floodgates.<\/p>\n

And not even the New York Times is going to be able to spin the volume of stuff when you include what\u2019s gonna be declassified.\u00a0 This is why so many of you along with me have been so insistent for so long about the need to declassify.\u00a0 We\u2019ve wanted this to happen.\u00a0 We have wanted… You know, when this investigation began is known.\u00a0 It\u2019s in the documents what happened. How this thing actually began will tell people so much.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t wanted to get that out.\u00a0 Rosenstein countless times refused Devin Nunes requests to turn it over and be seen.\u00a0 Well, once it gets declassified and released, that\u2019s the floodgates. Plus, you put people like Barr and Rudy out of there and Emmet Flood telling the story. I think whoever actually is responsible for telling Trump — or maybe it was Trump himself. Whoever it was, the decision not to declassify until Mueller was done was a very smart thing to do.\u00a0 Wait until they\u2019re finished.<\/p>\n

Wait \u2019til they fired everything they\u2019ve got, and now we find out they don\u2019t have anything. Now is the time to do this.\u00a0 So here is what I, your host, believe is happening.\u00a0 The Flood letter is important for three reasons.\u00a0 A, it will be seen.\u00a0 The country is going to see this at some point.\u00a0 The Drive-Bys are gonna try to ignore it and say, “It\u2019s just nothing but, you know, typical lawyer letter to another lawyer.”\u00a0 But it was intentionally put out now to rebut the Mueller report.\u00a0 I\u2019m telling you, you should really go to RushLimbaugh.com and click on that link and read it<\/a>, because it rebuts the Mueller report exactly as you think the Mueller report should be rebutted.<\/p>\n

And it does it in a point-by-point way on the matters of the law.\u00a0 It rejects this report as being in violation of the law, in violation of prosecutorial ethics, in violation of everything that we understand about the American system of justice.\u00a0 Pointing out that Mueller outrageously inverted the burden of proof!\u00a0 Mueller starts this investigation claiming that he\u2019s gotta find a way to exonerate Trump in order to clear him.\u00a0 No prosecutor ever does that!\u00a0 That\u2019s not our system!<\/p>\n

Every perp is considered innocent from the beginning, and it has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Mueller, in this report, is tantamount admitting that they knew Trump was guilty, and they were setting out to prove it. They were setting out to exonerate him, and they couldn\u2019t exonerate him.\u00a0 This is what this BS about (sputtering), “We can\u2019t come to a conclusion on obstruction, uh, because, uh, uh, we just…” Well, it\u2019s not your job to come to a conclusion on exoneration.\u00a0 You either charge other you don\u2019t, and they didn\u2019t charge, they got nothing.\u00a0 That\u2019s it!\u00a0 No, 128 pages of BS.<\/p>\n

Mueller\u2019s theory he couldn\u2019t exonerate Trump violates a prosecutor\u2019s duty to either charge or decline to charge based on whatever the evidence. It is never the burden of any American to prove to the prosecutor that he\u2019s innocent, and yet Mueller turned this upside down and effectively did this in this shameful report of his. “Well, we couldn\u2019t really exonerate.”<\/p>\n

\"\"Remember even when the day it was announced, “There\u2019s nothing in here that should be construed as exonerating the president.” Well, that\u2019s not your damn job, you hack! And of course it was worded that way on purpose to fuel this continuing obsession with throwing Trump out of office and overturning the 2016 elections for the media and for the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

The second thing I think is happening, the reason the Flood memo is important, this letter, it lays the groundwork for Trump to assert executive privilege by pointing out how they could have at any stage in the Mueller investigation, but that they didn\u2019t. They cooperated. They turned over everything that was asked of them.<\/p>\n

The only thing Trump didn\u2019t do, he didn\u2019t testify in person, but he answered written questions, but that\u2019s it. They let Don McGahn talk to Mueller for 30 hours. They could have declared executive privilege and there\u2019s not a damn thing Mueller could have done about it. I think they\u2019re going to.<\/p>\n

The Democrats don\u2019t care about Barr. What they want is Mueller. They want Mueller up there, and they are hell-bent on getting Mueller to say that Barr misrepresented his report. Then they want McGahn to come up, and they want McGahn to try to testify that Trump witness tampered, that Trump told me to lie. That\u2019s what Clinton was impeached for. They\u2019re gonna exert executive privilege on this. They\u2019re gonna deny the Congress the chance to talk to McGahn. That\u2019s what I think this letter sets up.<\/p>\n

So the Democrats are gonna huff and puff about Barr, but they don\u2019t want Barr. They want Mueller, and then they want McGahn. That whole thing yesterday, including Hillary on Rachel Maddow<\/a>, all of this is a charade. As I told Mr. Snerdley earlier, Barr could not be held in contempt. He volunteered. He was not there under subpoena. He was not there under command. They cannot hold him in contempt.<\/p>\n

All this rigmarole talk about holding Barr in contempt is flat-out BS, and any journalist with a modicum of education would understand this. Barr volunteered, he volunteered to cooperate, he volunteered two weeks ago to testify before both judiciary committees, House and Senate. You cannot be in contempt until you have flouted a subpoena and until you have withheld critical information.<\/p>\n

Barr was never under subpoena, and he disclosed the Mueller report by regulation that he had no reason to give to Congress. He was not obligated to give it to Congress. He did that to cooperate with \u2019em. Many of us, “Don\u2019t do it. Don\u2019t be cooperative.” But they are and were cooperative I think to set up what\u2019s coming. The only thing that has been subpoenaed by Congress is the unredacted report. Not Barr. Barr has not been subpoenaed, but the unredacted report has been.<\/p>\n

\"\"And in point of fact, that subpoena is BS. You know why? The report is 95% unredacted. All of the bad stuff on Trump has been disclosed. There isn\u2019t any dirt on Trump that hasn\u2019t been disclosed. The stuff that has been withheld is grand jury, which, by law, cannot be released. That\u2019s that famous stuff that\u2019s called 6(e) material. But they\u2019re hell-bent. They think something\u2019s been withheld.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the other bottom line. Remember there is a version of the report, unredacted version up there in Congress. It\u2019s in a room. Members of Congress can go read it if they want to. They can\u2019t take it out of there, they can\u2019t copy it, but they can go read it. No Democrat\u2019s have. Latest information I had was that two members of Congress had read it.<\/p>\n

So the next thing that\u2019s gonna happen, the Democrats are gonna bring Mueller in. And everybody thinks this is so that Mueller can really divulge what Barr has hidden, what Mueller can report that Barr is covering up. But that\u2019s not really the reason. They want to press Mueller on the Office of Legal Counsel guidance about not indicting a sitting president.<\/p>\n

They want Mueller to come in and admit that he believes a sitting president can be. They\u2019re looking for backup from anybody with ties to the DOJ that thinks we can indict a sitting president because they are chomping at the bit to indict Trump, although for what I don\u2019t know because there\u2019s nothing indictable in the report.<\/p>\n

Now, Barr said that he asked Mueller point-blank three times whether the Office of Legal Counsel guidance on not indicting a president played any role in his decision to not make a decision on the obstruction. In other words, Barr says, “Look, Bob. Did you obtain did you not charge obstruction because the OLC says you can\u2019t indict a sitting president anyway?” And if Mueller had said, “Yeah,” then they could say, “Oh, so you would have indicted him if it weren\u2019t for this guideline you can\u2019t indict a sitting president?”<\/p>\n

Mueller was asked three times if the reason he didn\u2019t charge obstruction is because he didn\u2019t think he could indict anyway, the answer three times was no. He didn\u2019t charge anything because he\u2019s not sure he had anything. But Nadler and Pelosi and the Democrats want Mueller to come up and say the opposite.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, folks, on the Emmet Flood letter to William Barr, do not be intimidated. Go ahead and read it. You\u2019ll understand it. Emmet Flood used to clerk for Justice Scalia. And the amazing thing about this four-page letter is that it does not need a lot of translation for laypeople or non-legally trained people.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s well worth your time to read this thing. ‘Cause it is exactly what Mueller and everybody involved needs to hear about this report. Now, let me cut to the chase. ‘Cause it\u2019s time to get to your phones and move on. What the Democrats really want is not Barr. And it really isn\u2019t Mueller. They\u2019re gonna go through the motions of talking, well, they\u2019ve done Barr, they\u2019re gonna go do Mueller next. Remember, everything they\u2019re doing is to continue the show or the image that Trump colluded with Russia, then Trump obstructed. That\u2019s all they\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n

What they really want is Don McGahn. Despite all of the efforts they make to make you think Mueller holds the key, they know that Mueller doesn\u2019t. This report is done, it\u2019s over, there was no obstruction, and there\u2019s no collusion, and there\u2019s no amount of dancing around and image making and PR spin that can convince anybody.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In fact, the impeachment numbers in polling data are now into the twenties. It\u2019s over. Since impeachment is political with the latest polling data of people supporting impeachment now in the high twenties, that\u2019s over. So the only thing remaining for them is to go after Don McGahn, who Mueller spoke to for 30 hours. And the news is that Trump told McGahn to lie about whether or not he gave the order to fire Mueller. That is witness tampering.<\/p>\n

They want McGahn, and they want to have at McGahn, they want to try to get McGahn to admit that Trump tampered with him as a witness. That is where the White House is going to exert executive privilege. That\u2019s where this is all headed, and the Flood letter is setting all of this up. That\u2019s where they\u2019re headed and the longer they go down this road, the more distracted they\u2019re gonna continue to be from everything else that does actually matter.<\/p>\n

Because the truth of this is, if you look at these public polls that show support for impeachment dwindling, I mean, just late last week or early this week, in one poll it was down to 37%. Morning Consult was 37. Now in a poll today or yesterday, 27. It means that the American public is not gonna support impeachment. That\u2019s not going to happen, since it\u2019s political.<\/p>\n

So now the only thing left the Democrats think they\u2019ve got is witness tampering, and that would revive impeachment in the public opinion, if they think they could pull it off.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 So here is now the absolute bottom line.\u00a0 Democrats want McGahn. They want McGahn because they think Don McGahn, former White House counsel, will be able to nail Trump on witness tampering.\u00a0 The White House will exert and declare executive privilege after the Democrats subpoena McGahn to come up and testify.\u00a0 Now, they know that Trump is going to invoke executive privilege.\u00a0 The Flood letter makes it clear that they\u2019re gonna invoke executive privilege from this day going forward.<\/p>\n

What will happen then, is the Democrats are gonna start screaming, “Cover-up!” All they\u2019ve got is to say this is Watergate revisited, and they\u2019re gonna try to make McGahn John Dean and James McCord and all the Watergate burglars<\/a>. They\u2019re gonna try to make McGahn be the guy that brings down Trump.\u00a0 But here goes executive privilege.\u00a0 So McGahn will not testify.\u00a0 The Democrats are looking at this as a win-win.\u00a0 If McGahn testifies, they get to talk about witness tampering.\u00a0 If Trump invokes executive privilege, then they\u2019re gonna say, “It\u2019s a Watergate cover-up!”<\/p>\n

This will allow them the orgasm of pretending they\u2019ve got Watergate again. “Oh, my God!” and the media\u2019s gonna say, “It\u2019s Watergate all over again!” They\u2019re not gonna be able to contain themselves.\u00a0 Now, the White House, the Trump team knows all of this is coming.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they are now moving quickly to try to convince the public this is over. There was no collusion, there was no obstruction — and the polling data on public sentiment for impeachment indicates that that message is going through.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what it means.\u00a0 It means that the only thing the public cared about here was collusion with Russia.\u00a0 They don\u2019t care about obstruction, don\u2019t care about any of this.\u00a0 As long as there was no collusion with Russia, the public is satisfied that the election was legit and it\u2019s over.\u00a0 And anything done to keep this alive runs the risk of irritating people and making them frown, shall we say, on the Democrats.\u00a0 Democrats are trying to continue to perpetuate this hoax.<\/p>\n

\"\"So I think, since the Trump team knows full well what\u2019s gonna happen (they\u2019ve got it all gamed out), I think you can expect (we can expect) rapid-fire disclosure of the inspector general report. I think we\u2019re gonna get rapid declassification of the origination documents for the FISA warrants, this stuff that Trump\u2019s gonna declassify. Barr\u2019s investigation into the origination of the investigation…\u00a0 I think this stuff is going to happen rapid fire.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think we\u2019re looking at years for all this to play out.\u00a0 We\u2019re looking at months for this to play out, and I think any indictments for anybody in the FBI or the DOJ who lied to investigators, who actually conducted a spy operation on the Trump campaign, anybody who lied to Congress like Comey has, or anybody that leaked classified information — and that list is as long as your arm!\u00a0 The New York Times and the Washington Post survived for two years on leaked classified data.\u00a0 I think you\u2019re gonna see all of this be made public rapid fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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