{"id":316729,"date":"2019-07-24T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=316729"},"modified":"2019-07-25T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T20:28:48","slug":"mueller-testimony-a-pathetic-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/24\/mueller-testimony-a-pathetic-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller Testimony: A Pathetic Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Look, folks, no matter how pathetic or feeble or weak or bad Robert Mueller appears, nobody ought to feel sorry for him. Not a single one of you, not a single person ought to feel sorry for Robert Mueller. This has been a pathetic display today. It is clear and obvious what has been going on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-DRUDGE-Mueller-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-DRUDGE-Mueller-001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-DRUDGE-Mueller-001-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The Democrat Party &#8212; led by Jerry Nadler and this committee &#8212; has been attempting to maneuver Mueller into saying, essentially, &#8220;I was hamstrung by Department of Justice guidelines. I couldn\u2019t get the guy. You have to do it.&#8221; That\u2019s what they wanted him to say. They wanted him to greenlight impeachment because the polling data on it is so opposed to it, and he won\u2019t do it. I don\u2019t think Mueller knows where he is today. Well, that\u2019s a bit of an exaggeration. But it is obvious Robert Mueller has never been more than a figurehead in this investigation, exactly as I laid out yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>His name is on the letterhead. He\u2019s the rainmaker. He\u2019s the guy that gives it all of this honor and all of this integrity. Meanwhile, his 15 Hillary Clinton-donor investigators did the work. He doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s in his report. He doesn\u2019t instinctively know what\u2019s in the report. Not even specifically, per se, he doesn\u2019t know. He has to have it read to him! In fact, he is so unfamiliar with it that he has signaled to the Democrats before this all began today that he will not read from it. He told them.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s another thing they wanted. They wanted Mueller to read from the report so that it looked like they weren\u2019t. They wanted Mueller to read from the report so it would have the appearance of nonpartisanship. Mueller told them before it began. I\u2019ve got the story right here. &#8220;Mueller\u2019s Team Indicates to Democrats He Will Not Read Text of Report if Asked.&#8221; Why? You saw why! He may not be able to read it. He obviously could not read it with any indication that he knows what he\u2019s reading. That\u2019s why they didn\u2019t let him read it, because he\u2019s not familiar with it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s why there were no questions permitted in his little eight-minute press conference back in June. It\u2019s why some of these answers today have just been the feeblest excuse. I have never seen a setting where the witness gets to determine what they will say, what they will answer, and what they won\u2019t &#8212; and I don\u2019t think anybody else has, either. But it\u2019s clear that what the Democrats wanted today was for Mueller to trigger impeachment, and it may yet happen. There\u2019s still a number of hours of this to go before a different committee this afternoon (little Pencil Neck\u2019s committee) will take over.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-CNN-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-CNN-004.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-CNN-004-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I\u2019ll just let you in on something: I won\u2019t be surprised if Mueller steps in it inadvertently at some point today. I don\u2019t know how. I\u2019m not gonna give you an exact prediction of how that would manifest itself. But this guy is so clueless and so unaware, and I don\u2019t know who these fossils are sitting behind him, but he\u2019s obviously got some caretakers there that are ready to pounce and jump at the slightest sign that it\u2019s going off the rails. I think they\u2019ve probably been close a couple of times. But remember what this is.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s two things this is, aside from all the details that we can get into here. The Democrats know that polling data on impeachment is a nonstarter. The American people in the latest Fox News poll and any number of places, do not want impeachment proceedings. A Fox News poll out today: 49% of the American people said it didn\u2019t matter what Mueller says, their opinion is not gonna change on collusion or obstruction. No matter what he says. The Democrats know that the American people have tuned out of this.<\/p>\n<p>I think, by this time, the American people are tired of hearing about Don McGahn, for example. They don\u2019t care about Don McGahn! They don\u2019t even know who Don McGahn is. The Democrats focused on Don McGahn for two to three hours, every Democrat question! So what they wanted Mueller to do here was to trigger impeachment, because he\u2019s the one that brings his reputation, this unassailable reputation of honor and integrity. Great American patriotism! If he had any honor or integrity, he wouldn\u2019t have taken this job, and I mean that.<\/p>\n<p>They want to impeach; the American people don\u2019t want it. They were hoping that Mueller would say something along the lines of, &#8220;Look, Justice Department guidelines say I couldn\u2019t indict this guy. You have to do it!&#8221; He didn\u2019t say that. That is what they wanted said. There\u2019s another aspect of this. In a strict analytical sense (before getting into the specific characteristics of Mueller, his answers, his testimony), the overall theme of this thing today has been flawed from the beginning. It was destined to fail from the beginning, because the Democrats have been trying to create an alternate reality here.<\/p>\n<p>They have been proceeding&#8230; The Democrats &#8212; every single one of them, with their questions, every one &#8212; have been proceeding on the assumption than that happened that didn\u2019t happen. The basis for all of their questions of Mueller was that Trump is guilty of crimes, but that Mueller was hamstrung by regulations and couldn\u2019t charge him. They have been assuming that Trump is guilty of crimes. They have sought confirmation of that from Mueller, that Trump is guilty of crimes. There\u2019s a big problem here, though. Trump is not guilty of crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has not been charged with anything. Trump did not stop the investigation. Trump did not fire Mueller. He did not deny anybody talking to Mueller. He furnished multiple thousands, hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. There was no impedance of this investigation. There was no attempt to stop it. It went on for over two years. There are no charges because there are no crimes. The Democrats have come up against a brick wall of reality. They tried to crash through a brick wall today, and they had a head-on collision with the wall, and they lost.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-001-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Assuming Trump is guilty of crimes, they have sought confirmation of that via the staging of their questions and the hoped-for answers from Mueller. But because Trump has not committed any crimes, because Trump has not been charged with anything, that truth cannot be obscured. That truth cannot be erased. That truth cannot be overwritten. Yet that is what the Democrats\u2019 mission today is. The Democrats are trying to create an alternative reality where Trump is guilty, but can\u2019t be charged because he\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>They tried to create the illusion that Mueller proved that Trump is guilty but that he can\u2019t charge him because he\u2019s sitting in office. It has been pathetic. It is&#8230; The Republicans, I&#8230; There was a question off-camera toward the end of the hearings right as the program was starting, and it was a Republican asking a question of the chairman, Jerry Nadler. &#8220;Mr. Chairman, was the purpose of this hearing today to trigger impeachment?&#8221; (sputtering) &#8220;I\u2019m not gonna dignify that. (muttering) I\u2019m not a&#8230; The witnesses answer the questions; I\u2019m not a witness! I\u2019m not&#8230; (muttering)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can\u2019t ask me that question. I\u2019m the chairman. You who you are.&#8221; He didn\u2019t want to do or have anything to do with that. Now some other observations here before we go to the break. It was obvious from the get-go that Robert Mueller has trouble. I don\u2019t know what it is. He\u2019s either uninformed or he\u2019s incapacitated somehow. I don\u2019t care which it is. I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s feeble, incapacitated. I don\u2019t even care if this was a strategy to obfuscate. I don\u2019t think it was. The Democrats are now hoping that this was a strategery to delay and not answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is obvious Mueller has not been part of this at all, as I stated eloquently and succinctly yesterday. He\u2019s been a figurehead designed to give it the imprimatur of integrity and honor and justice and decency. This investigation has been run by the staff. This investigation, all of it, has been run by Andrew Weissmann and 14 other Hillary Clinton donors. Participating in this staff were Strzok Smirk and Lisa Page, the text lovers openly admitting their hatred for Trump and their desire to sabotage the election so that he didn\u2019t win.<\/p>\n<p>They were part of that investigation team until that news leaked and Mueller had to fire them. Mueller knew all of this and&#8230; Well, I don\u2019t know what Mueller knew. I frankly don\u2019t. He may not have known this. He may not have known who these people are, in terms of their political persuasion, which I doubt. If anybody thinks that Mueller got rolled here, don\u2019t. He\u2019s part of this. He\u2019s part of the silent coup effort to get Trump. But he\u2019s reached an age and a station in life where it\u2019s not expected that he\u2019s gonna work 9-to-5.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-CNN-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-CNN-001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-CNN-001-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>He doesn\u2019t have the energy for it, doesn\u2019t have the stamina. The body of his career is behind him. He\u2019s earned this status of figurehead. It\u2019s the way Washington works! It\u2019s the way a lot of big-time corporations work. It\u2019s the way a lot of law firms work. During the first break in the hearing today, I was interested to see what the media take was. So I quickly channel surfed around, and there was nervousness wherever. On CNN, Jeffrey Toobin was apoplectic. He was asking Wolf Blitzer (as though Wolf Blitzer would know), &#8220;Was this just a strategy or does Mueller really&#8230;? (mutters)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is he really out of it like this? He\u2019s not&#8230;? I mean, he can\u2019t hear, he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s being asked, he doesn\u2019t seem to know what\u2019s in his own report? Is this a strategy? I&#8230;&#8221; They\u2019re hoping it was a strategy, but it\u2019s not a strategy. Mueller is not there. Mueller has never been there. Why do you think&#8230;? What witness gets an attorney at one of these things like they asked for yesterday? He needed a security blanket sitting next to him during the hearing today &#8212; and not to testify. His cohort was not gonna testify. He was there to run interference should it be necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Robert Mueller in this hearing&#8230; I\u2019m gonna openly say it: He lied. He openly lied a whole lot of times about something that\u2019s very crucial here. In the Democrats\u2019 effort to crash through the wall of reality &#8212; in the Democrat effort to create this alternative reality that Trump committed crimes, that Trump is guilty, that Trump ought to go, that the only reason he can\u2019t be charged is because he\u2019s president &#8212; Mueller said a number of times (sputtering), &#8220;Well, you know, we&#8230; we\u2019ve got the guidelines. Uh, the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines that says that we can\u2019t indict a sitting president,&#8221; which is all true. You can\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller tried to leave the impression that that\u2019s the only reason Trump was not charged with obstruction: The Office of Legal Counsel guidelines. However, how many of you remember William Barr, the attorney general, in both written statements and in interviews has said that Robert Mueller&#8230; They asked him when he submitted the report! Barr and others in the DOJ asked him, &#8220;If it weren\u2019t for the OLC guidelines, would you have charged on obstruction?&#8221; And they said that Mueller said, &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the attorney general issued a written statement and numerous other times verbally said that, quote, &#8220;Bob told us&#8230;&#8221; Bob Mueller. &#8220;Bob told us&#8230;&#8221; They\u2019re all friends. They know each other. &#8220;Bob told us that the office of legal guidelines had nothing to do with his decision not to make a decision.&#8221; Yet Mueller is lying through his teeth today saying that the only reason they couldn\u2019t make charges was because of the OLC guidelines that you can\u2019t indict a sitting president. Go back! We\u2019ll find it. Mueller has told Barr numerous times that the OLC guidelines had nothing to do with the fact that he didn\u2019t make a decision.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the Republicans did a great job today in some of the questioning. We have audio sound bites to illustrate this. One of the great points that was made was (summarized), &#8220;Our legal system does not &#8216;exonerate\u2019 people. You either charge \u2019em or you shut up. It\u2019s not your job.&#8221; CNN\u2019s headline since the last 45 minutes has been one thing: &#8220;Mueller: Trump Not Exonerated.&#8221; That\u2019s all they got from today, and that\u2019s not new. That is old news, and that\u2019s all they got. &#8220;Trump Not Exonerated.&#8221; Well, guess what? Our legal system does not exonerate people.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of a prosecutor is not to find evidence the guy didn\u2019t do it. You can\u2019t do that. The perp is considered innocent. The prosecution has to prove guilt. If they can\u2019t, they don\u2019t get to run around saying, &#8220;We can\u2019t exonerate.&#8221; In other words, &#8220;We think the guy did it. We don\u2019t have any evidence. You should look at him as guilty.&#8221; They can\u2019t do that. That is what Mueller did all day today. It\u2019s what the Democrats and the media are now saying happened today. CNN is quoting Mueller, &#8220;Yeah, we didn\u2019t indict because of the Office of Legal Counsel regulations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not what Barr has said, and I don\u2019t know if Mueller even remembers telling Barr that, but Barr is on record a number of times. Now, one of the interesting things is that Mueller had no idea of the basic principles of justice that I just outlined here. Republicans continually hammered him on this very concept, that there\u2019s no such thing as &#8220;exoneration,&#8221; that you don\u2019t get to investigate somebody for two years and find nothing to charge them with and then get to run around and say you didn\u2019t exonerate \u2019em. You don\u2019t get to say that!<\/p>\n<p>And they asked Mueller about that and he just seemed clueless. This has nothing to do with the report. It has nothing to do with areas he can\u2019t talk about. This is pure, 101, jurisprudence. He made it look like today he didn\u2019t get it, didn\u2019t understand it. He really looked bad to the people who know with the structure of the criminal justice system. There\u2019s another thing I found fascinating too. Did you notice&#8230;? Those of you who watched, did you notice how many times Mueller seemed to not understand when his report was being read to him? He said (sputtering), &#8220;Could give me citation?&#8221; &#8220;From your report, Mr. Mueller.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-FOX-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-FOX-003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-FOX-003-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>&#8220;Oh, oh, I&#8230; (muttering) I stand by it! (muttering) It\u2019s mostly accurate, then, if it\u2019s in the report.&#8221; &#8220;Wait a minute. You\u2019re saying you don\u2019t know what\u2019s in this?&#8221; &#8220;Well, I was telling what\u2019s in the report\u2019s mostly accurate. I can\u2019t go outside the, uhhh&#8230; (sputtering) I can\u2019t go outside the, uhhh, purview! I&#8230; (mumbling) My purview, I can\u2019t&#8230; I can\u2019t do that.&#8221; Let me tell you one of the reasons why he didn\u2019t understand the stuff as it was read to him, \u2019cause this thing is so horribly written. It is written purposefully to confuse. This report is just reeking with double negatives. I don\u2019t know about you.<\/p>\n<p>When I read something or listen to somebody speak in double negatives, I have to stop, especially when I read it. I have to stop and restructure the sentence to get rid of one of the double negatives so that I understand. Mueller has no chance of understanding what\u2019s being read back to him from this report because it\u2019s filled with double negatives, and it\u2019s designed to confuse anybody reading it. And of course, the more negatives you can put in, the more creation of assumption of guilt that you can get away with, which is what the authors of this report purposefully did.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: For those of you that did not have a chance to watch or listen, do you know that Robert Mueller refused to answer questions about Russian meddling in the election? You heard me right. He refused to answer! He was asked a question, &#8220;Mr. Mueller, are you aware of any votes being changed as a result of Russia\u2019s attempt to meddle in our election?&#8221; (sputtering) &#8220;Uh, that\u2019s beyond my purview. I&#8230; (muttering) Other people, uh, other investigations are looking into that. (muttering) I, uh, uh, uh&#8230; I, uh&#8230; No, I &#8212; I am not able to answer. I&#8230; I&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you can\u2019t answer questions about Russian meddling in the election when that\u2019s the only reason that your investigation was opened!&#8221; Let me give you an answer to the question that Mueller obviously doesn\u2019t know. No votes were changed! The outcome of not a single election was affected by Russian meddling. You know who said so? Rod Rosenstein, announcing the indictments of the 13 Russian troll farms.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, let me repeat this with a little bit more time. Robert Mueller was asked if Russian meddling resulted in any votes be changed or any election outcome being altered. He refused to answer. (impression) &#8220;I, uh&#8230; I&#8230; I&#8230; Uh, it\u2019s beyond the purview of the question! I&#8230; I&#8230; I can\u2019t go there.&#8221; I forget who the Republican was asking the questions, but he was incredulous. He said, &#8220;Wait a minute, you can\u2019t talk about Russian meddling?&#8221; (muttering) &#8220;It\u2019s beyond the purview. Could you read the citation for me? Uhhh, uh, could you repeat the question!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They repeat the question, and it\u2019s filled with in double negatives. He still doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s being asked. Folks, he even admitted that this was an investigation that was not run from top down. He admitted that he was&#8230; If you knew how to hear this and listen, he knew he was not engaged. This was a classic no-show job that he had, but I don\u2019t feel sorry for him. I don\u2019t feel sorry for him in the slightest. They\u2019re even&#8230; You know, Democrats are tweeting sympathy. What a great hero he\u2019s been! What a wonderful man they knew! Blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re treating him like he\u2019s somebody they don\u2019t recognize anymore, because this performance today was a shock to the Democrats. I\u2019ll tell you this. I will guarantee you that if there were a really bright, single Democrat leader, they would cancel Schiff\u2019s committee hearing this afternoon. They wouldn\u2019t risk it. They wouldn\u2019t risk another three hours, \u2019cause who knows what he may step in going forward. They wanted this guy to trigger impeachment. They wanted this guy to admit that Trump is guilty but that he couldn\u2019t charge him; Congress has to do it.<\/p>\n<p>He wouldn\u2019t do it, she Democrats have been mortally let down because of this. But back to this business about Russian interference. Not only did he refuse to answer that question, he was repeatedly asked about the Trump Tower meeting. You know, the 15-minute meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and Corey Lewandowski and some other people (and the Russian honeypot, Veselnitskaya). They tried to make a big obstruction case and collusion case out of that meeting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-254652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryBillFusion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryBillFusion.jpg 422w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HillaryBillFusion-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/>Republicans all morning said, &#8220;Well, do you know who Veselnitskaya is, Mr. Mueller? Do you know who Glenn Simpson is, Fusion GPS? They\u2019re the people that hired Christopher Steele to create this false document called the dossier on Trump.&#8221; Mueller is clueless. &#8220;Before the Trump Tower meeting, the Russian honeypot meets with Glenn Simpson, and after the meeting she meets with Glenn Simpson. She got instructions before the meeting how to conduct, how to entrap, and then after the meeting she had another meeting with Simpson, Fusion GPS, to report how it had gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mueller refused to comment.<\/p>\n<p>(stammering) &#8220;It\u2019s outside my purview! (mumbling) I&#8230; I&#8230; I&#8230; Other people are handling that part of the investigation. I&#8230; I&#8230; I&#8230; I&#8230; Could you read that back to me? I&#8230; Uh, what\u2019s the cite?&#8221; So you\u2019ve got a 15-minute meeting that\u2019s got 45 pages written about it in the Mueller report, and the minutes before and after he won\u2019t talk about! You know why? &#8216;Cause he doesn\u2019t know! I will bet you. You know, we assume that everybody in Washington knows at least what we do. We think they probably know more. They are the swamp. They run everything! This guy, I really question how much he knows about Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that his investigators didn\u2019t go anywhere near it. It is clear his investigators purposefully avoided all aspects of Hillary Clinton campaign collusion with Russia, and I don\u2019t know that this guy watches the news or reads newspapers. If all he reads is the New York Times and Washington Post, I\u2019ll guarantee you he does not know about Fusion GPS. He doesn\u2019t know about these things, and he was totally bamboozled by questions. (sputtering) &#8220;Well, that\u2019s outside the purview! I, uhhh&#8230;&#8221; These things are in the report!<\/p>\n<p>Fusion GPS is in the report.<\/p>\n<p>Veselnitskaya is in the report.<\/p>\n<p>He refuses to answer questions about it. Now, you could say that he\u2019s doing all this on purpose \u2019cause he didn\u2019t want to give the Republicans ammo; he was there simply to help the Democrats. I guess there may be a strain of that. That\u2019s possible. But on this business of Russian interference and Russian meddling? It was when they announced the indictments of these 13 Russian troll farms. It was Rosenstein that went out and announced the indictments. Now, these indictments were interesting because they were made to create the illusion that there was Russian meddling in the election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-316720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-006.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072419-Mueller-Testify-Congress-006-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>They indicted these 13 Russian troll farms knowing they would never be prosecuted, knowing that the Russians would never extradite these people that had been accused. These were just joke public relations indictments designed to make the Office of Special Counsel look like they had established collusion. When Rosenstein went out to announce these indictments &#8212; and nobody reported this, but he mentioned it at the end of his press conference. He stressed it, and the media totally ignored it. He stressed in none of these indictments is an American citizen alleged to have been involved.<\/p>\n<p>In none of these indictments are we alleging that a single vote has been changed. In none of these indictments are we suggesting that the outcome of any election was affected. So Mueller\u2019s boss, Rosenstein, publicly announced that no votes were changed, no election outcomes were altered. Mueller refused to answer the question. &#8220;Well, that\u2019s outside my&#8230; Uh, the purview. I can\u2019t go&#8230; (sputtering) I\u2019m not gonna go there. I\u2019m not answering that. Uhnhhh, there are people Department of Justice looking. I can\u2019t compromise any other investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not about anybody\u2019s other investigation. It\u2019s yours! So does he not know? Does he not know that no votes were changed? I mean, to not answer the question! You gotta know! If you\u2019re running the investigation about Trump colluding with Russia, don\u2019t you think that it\u2019s a fundamental bit of information as to whether or not the Russians tampered with any elections, changed any votes, or altered the outcome of any election? Mueller purports not to know or to claim it\u2019s outside the purview of the hearing?<\/p>\n<p>It was really pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I look at these Democrats, folks. They routinely try to destroy innocent people &#8212; Kavanaugh, Robert Bork, Trump. They protect people like Hillary Clinton, where there is a mountain of evidence that, in her case, she violated the Espionage Act a minimum of 50 times. We\u2019re looking at a party here today that is dangerously corrupt. But I wouldn\u2019t feel sorry for the confused or feeble or out-of-it or stonewalling Robert Mueller, just like I don\u2019t feel sorry for anybody named Christine Blasey Ford or any of these other phony baloneys that the Democrats trot out and try to portray as big-time victims.<\/p>\n<p>They literally attempted today in a couple of questions by the Democrats to make Mueller a victim of Trump. &#8220;He wanted to fire you, didn\u2019t he! He was telling people to fire you, wasn\u2019t he? He was instructing people to not flip and not to&#8230; He really wanted to screw you, didn\u2019t he?&#8221; (impression) &#8220;Well, I&#8230; I&#8230; (sputtering) Uh, it\u2019s an interpretation, maybe&#8230; Uh, it\u2019s not in the purview. Uh, if it\u2019s in the report, then I stand by it. If it\u2019s not in the report, well, then, I\u2019m&#8230; I\u2019m not gonna go there.&#8221; The Democrat Party proceeded today under the assumption that something happened that didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-228389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-018.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-018-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rush-Photos-SMALL-018-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>They have been assuming it. Their attitude, the narrative all day that they operated on and attempted to create was that Trump is guilty of crimes and that were he not president, he would have been charged. But the problem is reality. Trump is not guilty because he has not been charged. There is no such thing in the American criminal justice system as &#8220;exoneration.&#8221; You don\u2019t investigate to find somebody not guilty and then you don\u2019t go out and say, &#8220;We can\u2019t exonerate because&#8230;&#8221; Well, wait a minute. You didn\u2019t charge. You didn\u2019t find any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Again, a really salient point: Mueller multiple times today said the only reason they didn\u2019t come to a decision on whether to charge obstruction was because of the guidelines from the Office of Legal Counsel saying you cannot indict a sitting president. Attorney General Barr has written and stated multiple times that he asked &#8220;Bob&#8221; multiple times, &#8220;Is the OLC guideline the only reason you didn\u2019t indict?&#8221; Mueller said, &#8220;Oh, no. 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