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<\/p>\nRUSH: Look. Remember, folks, James Comey is such a Republican, he was urging everybody to vote Democrat in the midterms. Trump wasn\u2019t even on the ballot. But Comey has been a Republican. I don\u2019t want to waste a lot of time on James Comey, but he was the deputy when John Ashcroft was the attorney general back in the early 2000s for George W. Bush. Ashcroft ended up in the hospital and nearly died from pancreatitis. And the deputy attorney general was Comey.<\/p>\n
I forget what the specific was, but he took advantage of Ashcroft\u2019s illness and walked into Ashcroft\u2019s sickbed and had Ashcroft sign something, either power over to Comey or something. Look, he\u2019s always been a power seeker. He has promoted this image of himself as Mr. Boy Scout, Mr. Integrity, Mr. Honorable, and he\u2019s nothing but a partisan hack.<\/p>\n
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The fact that he was a Republican, the fact that Rosenstein\u2019s a Republican, I mean, that kind of thing — this is because a caller heard some Democrats in the committee today saying, “Well, you Republicans, I guess you ought to investigate your own \u2019cause all these people are Republican.” It doesn\u2019t matter they\u2019re Republicans or Democrats in this case. That\u2019s not what this is about.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s so many Never Trumpers on the Republican side here that it\u2019s just irrelevant what party they\u2019re from, other than if you want get into them for being traitorous involving party loyalty and that kind of thing. I mean, Comey has even acknowledged that he was hoping Hillary Clinton won. He has detested Donald Trump from the moment Donald Trump got into the Republican primaries.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s all about class and it\u2019s all about manners and proper behavior and sophistication and this kind of stuff. It\u2019s the classic way that the elites keep their groups small, the way that they come up with various ways of keeping people out of their club. They\u2019re not sophisticated enough. They don\u2019t have the right educational background. They don\u2019t have the proper manners. They don\u2019t know where the fork goes, left or right, salad fork, dessert fork, that kind of crap.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m using that as an illustration, but it\u2019s that petty. I mean, you talk about James Comey. James Comey says the FBI doesn\u2019t spy. The FBI investigates. James Comey also says: I don\u2019t eat. I nourish myself. I wasn\u2019t drunk. I was overserved. I didn\u2019t make a mistake. I was misperceived. I didn\u2019t hit him. His jaw struck my fist. That\u2019s James Comey.<\/p>\n
And I\u2019m telling you the reason why the Democrats want to see what\u2019s redacted in this report is because they know damn well that Barr is in fact underway with his investigation right now, and they want to find out as much as they can about what Barr is gonna learn. And whether some of that is in the redacted portions of the Mueller report or not, that\u2019s why they want to see it.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not laboring under some belief or hope that there\u2019s something in there that will prove Trump-Russia collusion. They want their base voters to think that, but that\u2019s not why they really want this. FBI Director Wray, Christopher Wray during testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday said that he\u2019s working with the attorney general to get to the bottom of the origin of the 2016 Trump investigation.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe special counsel\u2019s report goes through a fair amount of detail about the predication for its investigation. Beyond that, as I mentioned to the chairman, I have had a number of conversations and am working to help the attorney general get to the bottom of an understanding of what the circumstances surrounding the initiation of that investigation were at the department and the FBI back in 2016.”<\/p>\n
Which raises a question. How can Wray get to the bottom of how the FBI\u2019s probe of the Trump campaign started if he doesn\u2019t believe the FBI spied on the Trump campaign? Since it seems to have begun with spying.<\/p>\n
And Senator Kennedy, Louisiana, asked an interesting follow-up. He said, “The president could declassify, with proper redaction, all of the documents at the FBI pertaining to the 2016 investigations of Secretary Clinton and President Trump, and then let the American people see them and draw their own conclusions. Why don\u2019t we do that?”<\/p>\n
And the FBI director said, \u201cTo do so would compromise sources and methods, but that the FBI has tried to learn lessons from the Clinton email investigation and would learn from the DOJ inspector general\u2019s report about the pending Trump investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
So it doesn\u2019t sound to me like Wray is gonna support declassifying the documents in question, but we\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s gonna matter. I think Barr is hell-bent here. And I think the more Democrats pile on with this kind of stuff, I think Barr is gonna be even more committed to this than he is or than he was when he started.<\/p>\n
And maybe he was committed to the max from the get-go, but I think all of this that\u2019s happening is simply a continuation of the original travesty here, which in truth, it was to rig the election for Mrs. Clinton. Don\u2019t forget the real beginning of all of this is to exonerate Hillary Clinton for her illegal server and her trafficking in classified data, clear felonies, clear violations of the law, people are in jail in this country for having done what she did. They had to exonerate her. And Comey did that in that July 5th, 2016, press conference.<\/p>\n
Now, to cover up the exoneration of Hillary Clinton — and it was actually a twofer — to cover up the exoneration of Hillary and the attempt to make sure she won, they began this investigation into the Trump campaign which continued after he won the election through his transition and through his presidency.<\/p>\n