{"id":312123,"date":"2019-06-13T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=312123"},"modified":"2019-06-14T16:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T20:30:21","slug":"trump-sets-up-the-democrats-but-they-dont-know-it-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/13\/trump-sets-up-the-democrats-but-they-dont-know-it-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Sets Up Democrats and Media (But They Don\u2019t Know It Yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: And here we go again, folks. Here we go again. Donald Trump sets \u2019em up, they haven\u2019t figured it out yet. I\u2019m kind of reluctant to explain it here \u2019cause I don\u2019t want \u2019em to figure it out, but I gotta explain it so that you get it. Everybody calm down here.<\/p>\n

\"\"So Donald Trump says, “Yeah, if some foreign bad guys call me with dirt on Crooked Hillary, sure, I think about taking it.” Except the Mueller report is filled with evidence that the Russians tried to offer Trump dirt and he didn\u2019t take it! That\u2019s what the Mueller report conclusion is, that the Russians made numerous attempts to infiltrate the Trump campaign, that they made numerous attempts to pass off dirty information on Crooked Hillary, and the Trump campaign didn\u2019t take it.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Trump with Stephanopoulos, “Yeah, if the bad guys call, sure, I\u2019d think about taking it.” Meanwhile, they took it! Not only did they take it, they solicited it! And they paid for it! They went out there, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, they paid Christopher Steele, they paid Fusion GPS, they paid $6 million for this, for opposition research.<\/p>\n

It was dirt. It was lies. It was made up from foreign agents in different countries. From the U.K., from the Soviet — well, Russia, and then Ukraine and who knows wherever else that Steele went trying to concoct information.<\/p>\n

And the Mueller report makes it plain as day that there were numerous attempts to infiltrate and to pass the information along, and the Trump campaign didn\u2019t take it. So here\u2019s Trump with Stephanopoulos — why? Would somebody explain to me why, a two-day, no-holds-barred, even put him in the limo driving Stephanopoulos around.<\/p>\n

Look, when Good Morning America calls you, it isn\u2019t ABC calling you, it\u2019s the Hillary Clinton war room calling you. When George Stephanopoulos calls and wants to come by and do an interview, you may as well understand that it\u2019s the Hillary Clinton operation calling you, that it\u2019s the Clinton operation, not just Hillary, but Bill and everybody involved in that, Donna Brazile, who\u2019s now working over at Fox.<\/p>\n

And it is effectively the Democrat National Committee calling and wanting access and Trump granted it. I\u2019m gonna go back. Grab audio sound bite 4. This is me, April \u201915, four years ago on this program.<\/a><\/p>\n

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RUSH ARCHIVE: When Good Morning America calls you, understand it\u2019s not Good Morning America, it\u2019s the Hillary Clinton campaign calling you because George Stephanopoulos is at Good Morning America and where he really works is the Hillary campaign, or the Bill Clinton war room.<\/p>\n

You would no more accept invitation to be interviewed by Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign consultant, so why would you accept an invitation to be interviewed by Hillary\u2019s campaign consultant disguised as an anchor on Good Morning America?<\/p>\n

I know, it\u2019s a challenging exercise to come up with alternative means here of reaching the American people. But one of the ways, this is a great field of candidacies that the Republicans have who can reach the American people by going over the heads of the media, and they should not be afraid to do so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Trump does go over their heads but, you know, Trump, despite what everybody says and despite what everybody thinks, Trump loves the media and he loves these things. He loves Stephanopoulos coming in. And I think Trump likes to plant little bombs with these people. I think he likes to tweak \u2019em, and I think that\u2019s what this was.<\/p>\n

I mean, it\u2019s so damned obvious. Here\u2019s Stephanopoulos all earnest (imitating Stephanopoulos), “Hey, hey, if a foreign government called you, if they had dirt on your opponent, would you take it?”<\/p>\n

And Trump knows the drill here. (paraphrasing) “Sure. Sure, I\u2019d take it.” And plus Trump says, \u201cThis business of calling the FBI, nobody would call the FBI! Nobody calls the FBI! You deal with it or you deal with it some other way! Nobody calls the FBI!”<\/p>\n

Stephanopoulos says, “Well, Algore called the FBI when he got somebody\u2019s briefing book.” Trump said, “Briefing book\u2019s a different thing. That\u2019s absolute theft. This is just somebody offering me information.”<\/p>\n

In addition to that, don\u2019t forget that Pencil Neck actually accepted a phone call from people he thought were legitimate members of the Ukraine government that were gonna pass on information to Trump kompromat about Trump hiring the prostitutes to pee on the bed in Moscow. So little Pencil Neck was eager to accept information from foreign actors on a political opponent.<\/p>\n

The difference here, folks, is very simple, but it\u2019s gonna go past the vast majority of Americans because of the way the media is covering this. Trump talks about it, but he didn\u2019t do it. Mueller report, he didn\u2019t do it. The Democrats do it! And they\u2019re having conniption fits today over the fact that Trump said he might do it, yeah, he would do it. Meanwhile, they do it! They did it!<\/p>\n

Ted Kennedy wrote the Soviet Union during the Reagan presidency begging them not to nuke us and instead wait until the Democrats could get rid of Reagan, everything would be back to normal. The idea that the Russians are only trying to impact and influence Republicans, the Democrats had an ongoing symbiotic relationship with them, Soviet Union then Russia for years.<\/p>\n

\"\"Trump didn\u2019t do it. He talks about it. It\u2019s no different than they\u2019re trying to say that Trump obstructed justice by thinking about ways to end the investigation. He didn\u2019t obstruct justice. He didn\u2019t end the investigation. Firing Comey was not obstructing justice.<\/p>\n

So they try to say that Trump violated federal law, committed the obstruction of justice act over and over and over again simply \u2019cause he wanted the investigation to end even though he didn\u2019t do anything. So we\u2019re constantly told how Trump hates the real news media. He\u2019ll only appear on Fox, and yet here he is taking Stephanopoulos around in the Beast, the official presidential limousine.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s fascinating to watch this \u2019cause it \u2013 (interruption) Why do I call it a setup? Well, the reason I call it a setup is because the Democrats have actually done it! Trump is forcing these people to go on the record steadfast opposition to this while Barr and Durham are conducting an operation to find out what kind of illegal activity there was between the investigators and Russia and other foreign actors in order to sabotage the Trump campaign and then the Trump presidency.<\/p>\n

So Trump is forcing all these people to go public here with their outrage over just thinking about doing it, saying it\u2019s illegal, it\u2019s unpresidential, it\u2019s un-American, and the day is gonna come where everybody\u2019s gonna know that the Democrats did it, that Hillary Clinton did it. And it\u2019s gonna be very difficult for these clowns have been conniption fits today to walk it all back, once Barr and Durham make their findings clear.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I think part of this is a set — Trump is not stupid. Don\u2019t care what anybody thinks, he\u2019s not stupid. And Stephanopoulos did not sandbag him. Stephanopoulos did not set him up, did not catch him in a moment of when his guard was down, or he was not prepared.<\/p>\n

Another thing about Trump, he is brazenly honest. Which also flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that Trump is this lying pig, can\u2019t tell the truth to save his life. The fact is the guy is over-the-top honest, almost a stream of consciousness honesty that he has.<\/p>\n

So the Drive-Bys are treating this now as a tacit admission that Trump would have colluded, he would have if he\u2019d been given the chance, and that\u2019s almost as bad as colluding. Except for the fact that the august Mueller report says that Trump was given numerous opportunities to collude with the Russians, and he did not!<\/p>\n

Contrast that with Hillary Clinton, who in fact did get dirt from foreign governments on Trump, even paid for it. And it was made up. It was manufactured. All lies, paid to foreign governments, foreign agents, you name it, the mother of all getting dirt on your political opponents.<\/p>\n

\"\"When Hillary hired a law firm to hire a foreign spy to hire former Russian intelligence agents in Russia to make up dirt on Donald Trump! And has Stephanopoulos or anybody in the Drive-By Media ever asked Hillary about that? Not a single person. No time ever has Hillary Clinton been asked about it. Kevin McCarthy went out today and did a press conference after Pelosi. He\u2019s the Republican leader in the House. He spelled all of this out exactly as I am explaining it to you. He spelled it all out.<\/p>\n

The Drive-By Media is sitting there, and not one of them is gonna take what he said and run down the street and ask Hillary Clinton about it. They might discuss it amongst themselves on the panel discussions in cable news. You know what they\u2019ll say? (impression) “Well, Mr. McCarthy is conflating two different things. What Hillary was doing was not opposition research. What Hillary Clinton was doing was gathering intel, gathering intelligence on a perhaps criminal opponent.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna say. “Hillary wasn\u2019t doing oppo research. She was gathering intelligence.<\/p>\n

“She was using intelligence agents to gather intelligence. Hillary Clinton was running a counterintel investigation.” They will never admit she was running oppo research. But to… I guess the lesson here is, it\u2019s okay to do it if you\u2019re the Clintons and the Democrats. It\u2019s okay to do this. But it is not okay to talk about it. If you talk about it, if you say you might or you would accept dirt from foreign sources (even though you haven\u2019t done it), “Ohhhh, that\u2019s very bad. We gotta get rid of you! You pose a great threat.” (laughing)<\/p>\n

Now, because of this comment… This is another reason why I think there\u2019s a bit of tweaking going on. The Democrats are all wringing their hands now. (impression) “The 2020 election is gone! It\u2019s over. I mean, Trump\u2019s offer… Trump is sending the signal that he\u2019s gonna accept dirt on our nominee from all of these foreign countries. He\u2019s telling North Korea, he\u2019s telling the ChiComs, he\u2019s telling the Russians that if they\u2019ve got dirt on the Democrat, that he\u2019ll listen to it.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the next thing they\u2019re doing. They\u2019re very worried that Trump has sent signals with this interview answer to Stephanopoulos that he\u2019s open to accepting (laughing) all dirt from Kim Jong-un, from Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin. (laughing) They\u2019re out there and they are wringing their hands. But they are making it clear — they\u2019re establishing today — that they don\u2019t think the 2020 election\u2019s gonna be fair. It isn\u2019t gonna be legit, it\u2019s not gonna be proper, what have you.<\/p>\n

These people are doing more to damage the integrity of our electoral system than any of these foreign actors could have ever hoped to. Let me know take a brief time-out. We\u2019ll come back and hear some of the bites for all this, and we\u2019re gonna go back and revisit… We\u2019re gonna go back and revisit little Pencil Neck getting scammed by a couple of comedians pretending to be Ukrainian sources with dirt on Trump and the prostitutes<\/a>. Adam Schiff was willingly and eagerly pursuing dirt on Donald Trump from foreign sources.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So we\u2019ve got Barack Obama interfering in campaigns in Israel by advising opponents to Netanyahu. You have the Democrats openly violating the law with the illegal immigration, promoting illegal immigration — and who knows how destabilizing all of that is? You got the Democrat Party in California registering to vote people who are not citizens. You have all of these things that constitute tampering with the electoral process, all of these things that are gray areas or outright violations of the law, and the Democrat Party\u2019s right in there.<\/p>\n

Not to mention Hillary Clinton, the Steele dossier, buying and paying foreign actors to provide false information to use against a presidential opponent. You\u2019ve got all that actually happening and happened. You got Donald Trump in a limousine with George Stephanopoulos, saying, “Yeah, if Norway called me, I might take it. I might take it.” He didn\u2019t take it. The Mueller report, Mueller dossier makes clear that Trump was offered countless opportunities to take dirt from the Russians and didn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

CNN has not done one other story (I\u2019ve had spies watching) since 6 a.m. They\u2019ve broken away twice to talk about Iran torpedoing a couple of tankers, but they have not dropped this story. They\u2019ve had everybody on. (laughing) They\u2019re playing sound bites from MSNBC and the guests over there. They\u2019ve had Brennan in there. They\u2019ve had Clapper on. They have had everybody who was a big star during the 2-1\/2 years of the Mueller investigation brought in, and they\u2019re being treated as though all of that has now been validated, and that Mueller may as well have found collusion because Trump just admitted today that he would have done it.<\/p>\n

Except, he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites where all of this started. We\u2019re up to number 5. This is Stephanopoulos. Who knows, really, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if there\u2019s a grand strategery here to try to set the Democrats and the media up, because this investigation is ongoing. In fact, the New York Times has a story… Are you ready for this? The New York Times has a story today that the DOJ, under the auspices of Barr and Durham, are now going to interview CIA agents over their role in this — and the CIA is livid!<\/p>\n

“How dare you tell us that the FBI is gonna come in and challenge us!” The CIA\u2019s admitting they\u2019re spies. What the hell are you gonna do? They\u2019re livid they have to undergo this. They are livid that they have to be accountable here. It\u2019s not the FBI doing the investigating of the CIA, It\u2019s the DOJ, and CIA people (the agents) are livid over this. Anyway, here\u2019s the bite. Stephanopoulos said, “Should Don Jr. have gone to the FBI when he got that note about the Russians having dirt on Hillary?”<\/p>\n