{"id":309442,"date":"2019-05-16T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=309442"},"modified":"2019-05-17T15:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T19:37:57","slug":"coup-conspirators-at-each-others-throats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/16\/coup-conspirators-at-each-others-throats\/","title":{"rendered":"Coup Conspirators at Each Other\u2019s Throats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It gets even better than that, because (just as I told you yesterday) James Comey&#8230; (laughing) <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/05\/15\/coup-collaborators-turn-on-each-other\/\">James Comey and Brennan are continuing their feud<\/a>, or what is shaping up to be a feud, as they now disagree about what the other did and said. &#8220;James Comey says that in 2006 John Brennan, Obama\u2019s CIA director, insisted on including the dossier in their intelligence community assessment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-309477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Rush-Fox-News-at-Night-With-Shannon-Bream-03_22_22-AM-e1558027899967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/>But Brennan says, &#8220;No, no, no, no, no. Comey wanted to use the dossier.&#8221; They know the truth is coming, and now they are all throwing each other under the bus. And a comment made by me on this program yesterday was used quite frequently on cable TV last night. It was the comment that if you see James Comey wandering the streets of Argentina or (laughing) if you see James Clapper in another country with no extradition treaty, then you know&#8230; (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, going back to Comey and Brennan, I\u2019ll tell you what this is about. &#8220;Comey says that in 2016 Brennan insisted on including the dossier in their intelligence community assessment,&#8221; but Brennan says, &#8220;No, no, no, Comey wanted to use the dossier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So now they\u2019re starting to point fingers at each other, and it\u2019s gonna be a perfect time for leverage to be used for them to start ratting each other out. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimStrassel\/status\/1128701944669728769\">Kim Strassel had a tweet yesterday. It was a four-part tweet<\/a>, but the first of the four parts is what interests me. Her tweet reads like this: &#8220;Lost in this spat is that it ignores a bigger question. There were two outrageous aspects to that Jan. 2017 briefing.&#8221; Let me tell you what this briefing was. On January 6, 2017, James Comey and some others go visit Donald Trump in his office at Trump Tower.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not president yet.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration hasn\u2019t happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimStrassel\/status\/1128701944669728769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-309448 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Straddel-Tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Straddel-Tweet.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Straddel-Tweet-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this meeting is when Comey told Trump&#8230; Leading up to this, Trump had told the intelligence community that he didn\u2019t need a daily briefing, that he was smart, that he had a good memory. He didn\u2019t need to talk to these people every day. Trump did not want these people in the intelligence community&#8230; He knew what was happening. He knew what had happened to him during the campaign. He knew these people were behind this effort to get rid of him. He didn\u2019t want to give them access every day.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t want to give them access first thing every day. Jimmy Carter met with these people the first thing every morning. A lot of presidents do. Some don\u2019t meet with them. Some get the president\u2019s daily brief. But the intelligence community loves the access. Trump didn\u2019t want to give it to them. He didn\u2019t want to give them in-room access to sabotage him, to influence him, to misadvise, ill advise him, what have you, and that ticked \u2019em off. It made \u2019em real mad. It really did.<\/p>\n<p>So there were a number of reasons why Comey took the dossier with him into that meeting on January 6th. He wanted&#8230; He took one story from the dossier &#8212; took the golden showers story &#8212; the story where Trump supposedly had hired a bunch of prostitutes to urinate on a bed because Obama in Moscow had slept on it. The reason for this was twofold. They told Trump, &#8220;You gotta meet with the intelligence people. This is the kind of stuff that\u2019s out there every day. You gotta know about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The real reason they wanted to meet with him and get this in front of him so that it could become news. They were desperate to get the dossier in the daily news cycle, and they figured, finally, the way to do it was tell Trump about it. Once Trump knows, once the president has been advised, then it\u2019s news, and then the media can report it. The dossier had been floating around Washington for six months, but everybody knew it was unverified and uncorroborated. Everybody knew that it was true. But they wanted to use it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So this was a trick.<\/p>\n<p>This was a way to make it newsworthy, for Comey to go in and tell Trump about the golden showers aspect.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So Comey goes in the meeting and tells Trump about the golden showers on January 6th. Now, what is also known is that Comey, Clapper, and Brennan met with Obama the day before in the Oval Orifice. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimStrassel\/status\/1128701944669728769\">Kim Strassel\u2019s four-point tweet<\/a>. Point number 1 &#8212; and I\u2019ll read the whole thing to you. &#8220;Lost in this spat is that it ignores a bigger question. There were two outrageous aspects to that Jan. 2017 briefing. One is the subject of this dispute:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-309518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Comey-Brennan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Comey-Brennan.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Comey-Brennan-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>&#8220;Who pushed to include dossier in the briefing, clearly as a hook for media to then run with the dossier allegations?&#8221; Okay. So Comey goes in, he\u2019s got the golden showers story, and he\u2019s gonna tell Trump about it. The purpose is to get this dossier in the media, and after this meeting, Comey leaves the meeting and calls Clapper and says, &#8220;Mission accomplished.&#8221; Clapper calls CNN and reports to them that the president has been briefed on the dossier. That clears CNN to begin running stories based on the dossier.<\/p>\n<p>When Bret Baier of Fox News interviewed Comey, Baier asked Comey, &#8220;Why didn\u2019t you tell Trump more? Why didn\u2019t you tell Trump that Hillary had paid for the dossier? Why didn\u2019t you tell Trump that the dossier was not verified and had not been corroborated?&#8221; and Comey said, &#8220;That wasn\u2019t my mission. My mission was to only reveal that part of the dossier.&#8221; Who gave Comey this &#8220;mission&#8221;? That\u2019s the question.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, before we get back to the phones, I want to get back to Kimberley Strassel\u2019s tweet because this is a fundamental point. And it\u2019s going to be one of the areas where the conspirators begin to unwind and fall apart from each other, as has already begun to happen. Brennan saying that Comey is wrong, and Comey saying that Brennan is wrong about various aspects of the dossier, whether it was legit or not, whether it was used, when it wasn\u2019t used and all that.<\/p>\n<p>So again, her first question: &#8220;Lost in this spat is that it ignores a bigger question. There were two outrageous aspects to that Jan. 2017 briefing. One is the subject of this dispute: Who pushed to include dossier in the briefing&#8230;?&#8221; And again, just to remind you, Comey tells Trump about the golden showers story in the dossier, ostensibly to warn Trump about the kind of smears that are out there and the reason you should be listening to the intelligence community.<\/p>\n<p>The real reason that Comey did this was to be able to get the dossier out of the ashes and into the news. So Comey tells Trump, leaves the meeting, calls Clapper, says &#8220;mission accomplished.&#8221; Clapper calls CNN, they report on the dossier, and CNN ended up getting a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on this one, when all they did was answer a phone call from James Clapper, which had probably been set up in advance. Remember, Comey was interviewed by Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel, and Bret Baier asked a very good question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/04\/27\/bret-baier-exposes-comey-dossier\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ComeyFOX1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ComeyFOX1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ComeyFOX1-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>(summarized) &#8220;Well, when you were telling Trump about the dossier and the golden showers story, why didn\u2019t you tell him more? Why didn\u2019t you tell Trump that was it Hillary Clinton opposition research? Why didn\u2019t you tell Trump that it was bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC? Why didn\u2019t you tell Trump that none of it had been verified?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2018\/04\/27\/bret-baier-exposes-comey-dossier\/\">Comey\u2019s answer to Bret Baier<\/a>: &#8220;That wasn\u2019t my mission. My mission was to only reveal that part of the dossier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Who gave him the mission? Now, I think that I know, and I think that you know. I think we all know who gave Comey the mission. Comey leaves the meeting and calls Clapper and says, &#8220;Mission accomplished.&#8221; Comey, by the way, in his interview with Baier and in his other appearances when he proudly says, &#8220;That wasn\u2019t my mission. My mission&#8230;&#8221; He\u2019s acting like a patriot here! He had been given a &#8220;mission,&#8221; and he had accomplished his &#8220;mission.&#8221; So he\u2019s very proud of it. Okay. Who gave him the mission?<\/p>\n<p>Now, tweet number 2 from Kim Strassel: &#8220;But the other outrage of that briefing was the deliberate decision not to tell Trump the whole truth &#8212; that dossier was being used as a basis to investigate members of his campaign. If FBI had any reason to suspect anyone in Trump\u2019s orbit, incoming Prez needed to know.&#8221; In other words: Why didn\u2019t you tell Trump that the Russians might be trying to use his campaign to interfere with the election? Why didn\u2019t you tell him that?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s a simple answer. The Russians weren\u2019t! The Russians weren\u2019t. Well, maybe the Russians were trying. Okay. They try everything all the time. It was the FBI that had attempted to infiltrate the Trump campaign. That\u2019s what\u2019s gonna come out. It was the FBI in coordination with Australia and the United Kingdom that were trying to get people on that campaign who would then interact with Russians so that they could then say the Trump campaign had been colluding. Her third question:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially if FBI was actively looking at Flynn, who was about to become [the National Security Advisor]! There was no reason not to brief, since according to FBI, Trump was not a subject,&#8221; as Comey was telling him. But Comey wouldn\u2019t publicly say this. &#8220;Who decided not to give Trump a FULL briefing about dossier?&#8221; Who decided to &#8220;deliberately hide this from new commander in chief?&#8221; Not just &#8220;Donald Trump,&#8221; but the commander-in-chief? Who decided not to tell him?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a better way to put it: Who decided to deliberately keep from him everything known about the dossier? Did Comey make up his mind alone to do this? Was it Clapper? Was it Brennan? Was it Obama? Kim Strassel says that\u2019s a question that is as big as any, because this meeting on January 6 is what got the dossier into the Drive-By Media. It was a strategic move, and it was under orders that Comey did it.<\/p>\n<p>He was with Brennan and Clapper, by the way, but when Comey decided to brief Trump, he asked everybody to leave the room so it would just be him and Trump. The reason for that was to try to convey to Trump, &#8220;Hey, this is just for your eyes. This is not for other people. This is just between you and me, Mr. President. Just you and me.&#8221; It\u2019s all a setup. Every bit of it was a setup. Now we\u2019re learning that top FBI officials were quite worried that Comey would appear to be blackmailing Trump in this meeting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042018-Comey-Politcal-Hack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042018-Comey-Politcal-Hack.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-042018-Comey-Politcal-Hack-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This is what I meant yesterday when I said that the rats are beginning to scurry around. This is a textbook example of CYA, and in it, we have the former counsel &#8212; the lawyer for the FBI, James Baker &#8212; telling Michael Isikoff yesterday that senior FBI officials were worried Comey telling Trump about the golden shower story in the dossier might be construed as an attempt to blackmail Trump. In other words, we\u2019re now hearing that FBI higher-ups were worried about what Comey was doing and were worried that they didn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They weren\u2019t worried enough to stop him, are they? No. Now, after the fact, they are saying, &#8220;Yeah, we were worried that Comey might have gone in there and might have been seen as blackmailing Trump.&#8221; You can see how that would happen. &#8220;Mr. President, I have a dossier here and in it it says that you hired prostitutes. What are you gonna do about this? You had them urinate on a bed because Obama slept in it.&#8221; They\u2019re worried? Now they tell us that this is a concern they had?<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that that\u2019s probably the least nefarious idea that anybody had. Blackmailing Trump was not what they were attempting to do. Although many people&#8230; I can see why people would think so. Now we go to the audio sound bites here, and I want to go back. Let\u2019s see. Yeah, I got time here. We\u2019re at sound bite number three, just to set this up. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2017\/05\/17\/lets-see-j-edgar-comeys-memos-on-obama\/\">This is May 17th, 2017<\/a>. So January, February&#8230; Three or four months after this fateful meeting between Trump and Comey, this is just a little comment that I made to people on the show.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH ARCHIVE: I mean, if the FBI director has been keeping memos on meetings with everybody, he doesn\u2019t run the Department of Justice. We\u2019re not talking about J. Edgar Hoover here or are we?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now we\u2019re being told that there was some concern by higher-ups in the FBI that Comey might have been blackmailing Trump or might have been &#8212; gone power mad, keeping all these notes for the purposes of blackmailing Trump on something besides the dossier. So here is Baker with Isikoff. Isikoff has a podcast called Skullduggery, and the question: (summarized) &#8220;Did you think through how Trump would receive the information about the golden showers story in the Steele dossier? You\u2019re the FBI. The legacy J. Edgar Hoover. You send Comey in there, somebody does. Were you worried at all about how Trump would take this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BAKER: We were quite worried about the Hoover analogies and were determined not to have such a, uhhh, disaster happen on our watch, that, &#8220;Sir, we had this information. It came to us in a particular way. The press has it; it\u2019s about to come out. You should be alerted to that fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-309500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-2.11.49-PM-e1558030350193.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mr. Baker, come on. The press had it because you gave it to them! The press had it because John McCain made sure they had it. The press had it because everybody in the Washington establishment wanted this dossier to be publicly consumed. You knew that it was unverified. You knew that it had not been corroborated, but you wanted it out there. McCain helped a bunch of people get this dossier out there.<\/p>\n<p>You say you\u2019re worried about about the J. Edgar Hoover comparisons? The press had the dossier because it had been leaked! CNN was told that the dossier\u2019s good to go by Clapper after Comey tells Trump about it, and now here\u2019s Baker on this podcast yesterday acting like, &#8220;Ah, we\u2019ve got this information. It came to us in a particular way. The press has it; it\u2019s about to come out.&#8221; The press had it? Everybody had it! You made sure they had it.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s trying to act like, &#8220;Oh, my God. The press had it! We had to do something. We had to get in front of it. The press had it.&#8221; You gave it to the press! You leaked everything the press had. Every lie about this is a leak that comes from somewhere in the intelligence community or your newfangled investigation.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I just got a flash email here from Victor Davis Hanson. This is a great, great point. He says, &#8220;Rush, have you noticed this obvious but often-neglected point? All of the leveraged Trump subordinates never once incriminated Trump for collusion even when it was in their interests to do so to lighten their sentences.&#8221; What he means is all these people that Mueller was putting pressure on: Manafort. All these people. Flynn. All these people. Papadopoulos, Papadopoulos\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>All these people that Mueller was essentially threatening to ruin refused to incriminate Trump on collusion. Not one of them, when it would have lightened their sentence. Even Cohen didn\u2019t! Even Michael Cohen didn\u2019t! And the reason is it didn\u2019t happen. But even at that, none of them lied. None of them gave Mueller what he wanted. Now, let\u2019s contrast this. Comey, Clapper, McCabe, Brennan, they\u2019re already pointing fingers at each other.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-309519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Deep-State-Exposed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Deep-State-Exposed.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051619-Deep-State-Exposed-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>They\u2019re blaming each other variously for leaking or for misrepresenting the importance of the dossier in the FISA probe. They\u2019re all now starting to backtrack from their hard, fast positions of the investigation. They\u2019re backtracking from this whole notion that Rosenstein wanted to wire up, try to get Trump discriminating himself, 25th Amendment for inserting the unverified dossier in the presidential intelligence briefing. But here\u2019s the question. Instead of all of them starting to point fingers at each other, instead of all of them trying to blame each other, why aren\u2019t they still claiming credit for it?<\/p>\n<p>Why aren\u2019t they holding to their original positions that Trump was a traitor and that Trump was colluding or that Trump was hoping to collude or the Russians were hoping to collude? Why are they backing off of their original positions? Remember their original claim. They didn\u2019t do anything wrong. They were only saving the republic. What they did was not only legal, but critical to the survival of the country. Trump was maybe partnering up with the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Why don\u2019t they stick with that?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they\u2019re the ones backing off!<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re the ones changing their stories. They\u2019re the ones starting to point fingers at each other. If no crime took place &#8212; meaning if these guys didn\u2019t do anything wrong, if there was no coup, if everything Comey did was aboveboard, if everything Clapper and Brennan did was aboveboard &#8212; why not continue taking credit for it? In fact, why isn\u2019t Comey trying to take credit for the whole thing and telling us Brennan and Clapper had nothing to do with it?<\/p>\n<p>Why aren\u2019t any of them fighting the others for total credit? If their original purpose was to save America from the dastardly Russians and to protect American elections, why have they given that up? Why are they now starting to point fingers? Why are they now starting to claim, &#8220;No, it was his idea to use dossier.&#8221; &#8220;No, no, no, no, no. No! The dossier wasn\u2019t mine. No, no, no, no.&#8221; All of them are backing off of everything they spent two years assuring is us was true.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022619-Trump-Hanoi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022619-Trump-Hanoi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022619-Trump-Hanoi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, not one Trump subordinate ever incriminated him, despite incredible pressure from Mueller and his band of investigators. Well, the answer to this is obvious. These people were lying from the get-go. Because if they were the patriots they claim to be, and if they were the saviors &#8212; if they were the people of impeccable character and moral strength to save America &#8211;they wouldn\u2019t be giving this up.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d be hanging in. They\u2019d be still insisting that what they did was crucial to save America. But, see, it was never that. What they did was never anything other than trying to ruin Donald Trump, overturn the election results, and get him thrown out of office. The fact that they\u2019re now scurrying around and unable to maintain their original positions is really all you need to know about the falsity and the fallacious aspects of their original contentions.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So we\u2019re gonna go to Bass Harbor in Maine, start up first here with Jay. Thank you for calling, thanks for waiting. It\u2019s great to have you with us, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Good afternoon Maha Rushie. Tera dittos from an island off the coast of Maine. I\u2019ve wondered for some time now whether or not President Obama was lied to about the contents of the dossier. I can\u2019t imagine them putting that story out there with that type of salacious material without running it by him first. So I\u2019m just wondering if he was in the dark at the start and got ramped up to launch an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Tell me something: How could this happen with Obama in the dark? Tell me what you mean by that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I mean at the start. If Comey or whatever went to him and say, hey, we have this, we think it\u2019s legit, what do we do, and if &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You\u2019re talking about the dossier?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Correct, I\u2019m talking about the specific salacious part in there &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You\u2019re talking about the golden shower. You\u2019re talking about the story that Trump found out that he was sleeping on the same bed Obama did and said, &#8220;Oh, goody,&#8221; and hired some prostitutes to come urinate on it, you want to know if Obama was told that or not?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I want to know if they&#8230; If he didn\u2019t initiate it&#8230; I can\u2019t imagine him coming up with that idea but whoever did pen this, I can\u2019t believe that they wouldn\u2019t have run it by him before putting a somewhat disgusting story out there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-306602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-041819-Steele-Dossier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-041819-Steele-Dossier.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-041819-Steele-Dossier-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Okay. I\u2019m tying to get my handle on this. You\u2019re asking if Obama was sitting in the Oval Office one day and decided to create out of thin air a story that Trump was in Moscow, discovered he had slept on the same bed Obama &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No. No. I\u2019m saying that somebody went to him in the dark with that story and said, &#8220;Look, we have this story that the front-runner of the campaign that, you know&#8221; &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh. Okay. I get it. So Hillary and her bunch hire Steele to put together the dossier &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yup.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; and then the dossier comes back, and the FBI, Comey look at it and say, &#8220;Whoa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yup.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So you\u2019re asking if they went to Obama and told him that the guy Hillary hired to find dirt on Trump found out that he hired some prostitutes to urinate on the bed that you Michelle slept in. You want to know if Obama was told about this or not?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: If he knew at the very beginning before it got launched. In fact, that might have been the impetus for him to unleash the full might of our &#8212; I hate to use the word &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, I see. So you think Obama might have found out about this and it really made him mad.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I don\u2019t know. (laughing) I\u2019d kind of laugh myself silly. I don\u2019t think&#8230; Maybe for the legal concept known as plausible deniability, but I can\u2019t believe any of this happened without Obama knowing about it. Obama\u2019s too hands on. We\u2019ve had stories since. In fact, it was last week or the week before, this guy Peter Baker, the New York Times, is writing apparently an always being updated biography of Obama, and the latest update in it is how livid Obama was at Hillary for blowing his third term.<\/p>\n<p>That he was just livid, that her campaign was soulless, that she didn\u2019t work hard enough and he took this personally. He could not believe the American people would reject him and elect this guy Trump. So I\u2019m just gonna tell you, if John Brennan at the CIA and the Brits are working this dossier that Hillary and the DNC hired&#8230; Remember, Obama is the DNC. The president of the party runs partied. I just can\u2019t believe any of this happened without him knowing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Although, as I say, they\u2019ve probably built in plausible deniability so they can legally say, &#8220;No, Obama didn\u2019t know about it.&#8221; But he\u2019s too hands-on. But even if that happened, I don\u2019t expect an investigation to go that high. I was talking about this with somebody the other night, and we were speculating, &#8220;Okay, if the investigation being done by the IG, Mr. Horowitz, and John Durham&#8230; If they discover that all of these people &#8212; Comey, Brennan, Clapper, all these people &#8212; were executing orders, had been given a mission, where did it come from?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Silent-Coup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Silent-Coup.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-021419-Silent-Coup-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>&#8220;It had to come from somebody higher than they are. Did it come from Hillary? Did it come from Hillary with Obama knowing or did it come from Obama with everybody executing?&#8221; We were asking ourselves, &#8220;If the investigation does indicate that Obama had knowledge, will they say so?&#8221; I said, &#8220;No. I think whatever Barr and company do here, they\u2019ll stop short of naming Obama just for the sake of the republic and the country.&#8221; And the person I was talking to said, &#8220;Well, they didn\u2019t have that same consideration for Trump. They were totally willing to take him out!&#8221; &#8220;Yeah, but I\u2019m just&#8230;&#8221; It\u2019s a good point. It\u2019s a good point.<\/p>\n<p>If the investigation does indicate these higher-ups had a significant role, they should be named. But I think that\u2019s why the scurrying and the finger-pointing is beginning to take place. 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