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<\/p>\nRUSH: Fort Pierce, Florida. Jerry, great to have you on the program today, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hey, I watched that Mueller hearing yesterday, and I discovered that there definitely was clearly discovered obstruction yesterday, and that was by the Mueller team in itself. And I want to know — and you mentioned it a little bit briefly earlier — who made the decisions to not investigate the FISA warrants, the Steele dossier, Fusion GPS, the culpability of the Obama administration and who, what and where with them while all this was going on?<\/p>\n
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Somebody made the conscious decision to not investigate that. Now, if this was truly about Russian interference in our election rather than just get Trump, they wouldn\u2019t have done that. So it showed they weren\u2019t into that at all. It was completely \u201cGo after Trump.\u201d And I think they absolutely made the case that they proved that yesterday.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I think that\u2019s exactly right. Whoever it was that made the decision, it\u2019s probably not one person. I\u2019m sure that Comey was involved, Obama — look, you can\u2019t talk about all that happened here without going to the very top levels of the Obama administration. All of these people that were engaged in this are not freelancers. Most of them have life experiences of taking orders, be it in the chain of command in the FBI, be it an agent in the CIA, be it the military. They\u2019re in the business of taking orders. And there are a lot of people in this chain whose experience is giving orders.<\/p>\n
So, yeah, you\u2019re absolutely right. The aspect of Russian interference in the election was itself just a distraction. That\u2019s not what was being investigated. If it was, you would have to have included Steele, the Steele dossier, Fusion GPS, and the Hillary campaign. But there was no interest. This was pure and simple a silent coup that was executed, the objective being to get rid of President Trump.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Lucy in McKinney, Texas. It\u2019s great to have you with us. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. I wanted to ask you if Mueller was such a doddering old guy, wasn\u2019t quite all there and everybody knew it from the get-go, why do you think everybody was gushing over him when he was appointed by Rosenstein?<\/p>\n
RUSH: ‘Cause of his reputation. His reputation of integrity and Mr. Honor gave the whole enterprise an aura of nonpartisanship, of honesty, of integrity, and of honor. That was his role. His role was to have his CV, his resume and his reputation transferred to the investigation while the true partisans, Weissmann and the other 14 Hillary lawyers, worked cloaked in secrecy. From the American people, anyway.<\/p>\n
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I mean, Strzok Smirk and Page. They were hired. Mueller hired \u2019em all. In fact, we think Mueller hired \u2019em all, but we don\u2019t even know that. They may have hired themselves. Look, this is a cabal. These people, Weissmann and all of his cohorts have involvement in many DOJ cases. They have involvement in the Enron cases, the Ted Stevens case. They may have appointed themselves or somebody in the DOJ.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a cabal. And Mueller, you know, gets away with the reputation he hired them, but that may not even be the case. But he was there to provide the veneer of integrity and honesty and unassailability.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: We have gone back to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites yet again, ladies and gentlemen. You remember what you\u2019ve heard now the past, oh, almost 24 hours. (summarized) “Gee, what happened to Bob? Oh, my God! Mueller blew it. Aw, gee, Mueller, he wasn\u2019t even there. He didn\u2019t even… Oh, this poor, doddering old guy. Oh, my God. This is horrible. That was a disaster for the Democrats. Oh, my…” You\u2019ve heard all of that, right? Well, let\u2019s go back May 17th and 18th. We have a montage of everybody we could find in the Drive-By Media on the day Mueller\u2019s appointment was announced…<\/p>\n
PHIL MUDD: If you have a kid and you\u2019ve despaired that there\u2019s not a hero in America, Robert Mueller\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
BARNEY FRANK: Bob Mueller was a wonderful appointment.<\/p>\n
GLORIA BORGER: Mueller is an impeccable choice.<\/p>\n
JEFFREY TOOBIN: There is literally no more respected person in American law enforcement than Bob Mueller.<\/p>\n
SCOTT PELLEY: (noise) Mueller is a well-respected former FBI director.<\/p>\n
DAN ABRAMS: …well respected, well regarded…<\/p>\n
BOB BECKEL: The guy\u2019s got an enormous amount of strength among Democrats.<\/p>\n
LEONARD LANCE: (noise) Mr. Mueller will be thorough in his investigation.<\/p>\n
JOHN GARAMENDI: (noise) Mueller is highly competent, highly capable.<\/p>\n
MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT: Bob Mueller is a man that\u2019s respected by both parties.<\/p>\n
MIKE BARNICLE: Bob Mueller is the definition of honesty, integrity, character, discipline.<\/p>\n
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JASON CHAFFETZ: He has impeccable credentials.<\/p>\n
STEPHEN HADLEY: He\u2019s a by-the-book-kind of guy. Very reassuring to the public.<\/p>\n
NICOLLE WALLACE: Bob Mueller is a national treasure!<\/p>\n
TIM NAFTALI: Mueller understands the law.<\/p>\n
MOHAMAD ELLEITHEE: Mueller is the right choice \u2019cause he will take it where it leads him.<\/p>\n
PAUL BEGALA: Mr. Mueller (snickers) is a credible law enforcement official. He [Trump] may be perfectly, pristinely innocent, and I will accept that if that\u2019s what we find.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ah! That was The Forehead, Paul Begala. They haven\u2019t accepted it, have they? They haven\u2019t accepted what Mueller found because Mueller didn\u2019t find anything. But this is two years ago. This is May 17th and 18th of 2017, a montage of people after Mueller\u2019s appointment had been made, and you hear what it was. (summarized) “He\u2019s impeccable, definition of a patriot. He\u2019s a real hero in America, an impeccable choice — well respected, well regarded, enormous amount of strength! He\u2019ll be thorough. He\u2019s a man respected by both parties, the definition of honesty, integrity, character, and discipline.”<\/p>\n
Where\u2019s all this stuff today? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Where did all of this go? (laughing) This is why Mueller was appointed, ladies and gentlemen, and I love The Forhead\u2019s comments: “Mr. Mueller\u2019s a credible law enforcement official. [Trump] may be perfectly, pristinely innocent, and I will accept that if that\u2019s what” Mueller finds. Ahhhh. Sometimes, folks, it\u2019s like going to the carnival and having a rigged gun shooting the apples, hoping you can take home the teddy bear as a prize.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: There\u2019s a new poll out from The Politico and Morning Consult today<\/a>. Forty-two percent of voters say that the Mueller investigation was conducted “not too fairly” or “fairly at all.” Only 37% of all voters say the “investigation was carried out ‘very\u2019 or ‘somewhat fairly.'” Well, now, that is a gigantic hit to the reputation of Bob Mueller, who shows up with impeccable honor, impeccable integrity, unassailable dignity, and now only 37% say that it was conducted fairly.<\/p>\n Now, the headline for this: “Voter Skepticism About Mueller Investigation Grows, Says Politico Poll.” Now, how does this happen? Because the Drive-By Media… I\u2019ll tell you how it happens. Let me just cut to the quick. I\u2019ll tell you how it happens, and I\u2019m surprised that it\u2019s as high as 37% who think it was fair. But you have to allow for practically all those are gonna be Democrats. Everything in context. For 2-1\/2 years, the American people heard multiple times a day, no matter where they went for news…<\/p>\n If they got their news at the Washington Post or the New York Times, or ABC\/CBS\/NBC, or MSNBC or USA Today or the Los Angeles Times, you take your pick. For 2-1\/2 years — and I\u2019m not exaggerating. There were as many as four stories a day in the first year with the New York Times, the Washington Post. For 2-1\/2 years, the American people heard how Trump had colluded with Russia. They heard variations of Trump is a traitor. They heard the election was illegitimate. They heard that Hillary actually won.<\/p>\n They heard that the Russians cheated and Trump helped them. He worked with them, and he won, and he shouldn\u2019t have — and any and all sundry variations of this — for 2-1\/2 years, and then during those 2-1\/2 years, the Mueller investigation begins, and along with the assurances that Trump had cheated… Now, the assurances at that point were in the form of anonymous sources quoted by these newspapers. “Current and former U.S. government officials… Current and former members of the U.S. intelligence community…”<\/p>\n For two years, Mueller investigates and investigates and invest — and for two years, the media keeps hyping it and hyping it — and then the report comes out, and what does it say? “No collusion, and we can\u2019t reach a decision on obstruction of justice.” Can you imagine the gigantic thud that that hit with the American people? Forget the media. Forget the Washington establishment. Imagine yourself as John and Susie Q. Citizen, and you\u2019re not particularly politically involved. You vote, you care, but you\u2019re not a wonk.<\/p>\n You don\u2019t follow this stuff first and last every day. You watch the news 10 or 20 minutes here, 30 minutes there, but you\u2019re living your life. In the process, you cannot escape that Trump colluded. You cannot escape, for 2-1\/2 years, “Trump stole the election and might even be a traitor,” and then the evidence that you, John Q. Citizen, have been expecting (because it\u2019s been hyped) comes out and it\u2019s zero. Can you imagine the thud? This is what the Democrats are never gonna be able to overcome.<\/p>\n No matter how many committees they convene, no matter how many witnesses they bring up there, no matter how many times they try to pump Mueller full with air and get him back up there for five or six hours, they\u2019re never going to be able to change the reality that there was no collusion. But measured against the assuredness that there was… Folks, all of this that\u2019s happened since the Mueller? Most of it has been met with a yawn, \u2019cause as far as John and Susie Q. Citizen are concerned, there wasn\u2019t any collusion. So they\u2019ve lost a little faith in the media and are scratching their heads over it.<\/p>\n It may not be an active suspicion they have, but they can\u2019t help but now wonder what else they\u2019re being told isn\u2019t true. So now we get a poll from the Morning Consult and Politico that only 37% think it was fair. It\u2019s actually a very high number. It ought to be (chuckles) 10 or 20. But we have to figure the 37% are Democrats. Most of them are. It is striking. “Former FBI director Robert Mueller said he doesn\u2019t know who or what Fusion GPS is.” How can you not? In fact, I\u2019m gonna go back to David “Rodham” Gergen. We played a sound bite from David “Rodham” Gergen a moment ago on CNN.<\/p>\n Okay. The dossier is it. That\u2019s what everybody\u2019s relying on. How can you not cover where it came from? And the Washington Post reported that it was Hillary Clinton opposition research! So if you\u2019re David Gergen and CNN, how do you ignore that? How come that is something, even though it\u2019s revealed in the Washington Post, that becomes something that the right talks about — and, therefore, if the right talks about it, we at CNN will not? How do you not talk about Christopher Steele?<\/p>\n Once the dossier is illustrated to be totally made up and political opposition research, how do you, as CNN, continue to ignore it and to treat it as though it\u2019s a nonfactor or irrelevant? I mean, they\u2019re positioning themselves here as a genuine news organization! They do not present themselves as partisans. If they were openly, admittedly partisan, then this would make sense. But these people trying to tell us that they are straight-down-the-middle, objective journalists.<\/p>\n So they\u2019ve got a new rule: If the right wing talks about it, conservative media talks about it, they don\u2019t. If conservative media talks about it, it isn\u2019t news. Well, how can it not be news? How can the FISA warrant process not be news? How can the Steele dossier not be news? In fact, CNN got a Pulitzer Prize for supposedly uncovering the fact that Trump had been told about the dossier, and yet the dossier is something they ignore because the right wing talks about it!<\/p>\n But if you listen to Mueller, he doesn\u2019t know about Fusion GPS. He didn\u2019t know about Christopher Steele. He didn\u2019t know about the dossier, didn\u2019t know who paid for the dossier, didn\u2019t know that the dossier was used to get FISA warrants. It\u2019s all adds up to never-ending dis-believability. Here\u2019s a tweet, ladies and gentlemen, from one of the famous Never Trumpers. This is Jonah Goldberg<\/a> at National Review. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s still at National Review or if he\u2019s left. I think he\u2019s left.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-032519-Russia-Hoax.jpg\")
Blah, blah. Such citations. Every “unnamed source” was automatically given credibility. These stories were not presented as possibilities. They were presented as truth, factual truth. The president colluded, the Russians colluded, Trump colluded with them. Then the Mueller investigation starts, and then it gets added onto, and now, “This guy\u2019s gonna find it! Now we\u2019re gonna get the proof. We\u2019re not gonna have just anonymous sources in newspapers and cable news. We\u2019re gonna get the actual proof.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072519-Mueller.jpg\")
In the sound bite, he is crediting the Republicans for being far better prepared, far more prepared. He couldn\u2019t understand it, could not understand it! (impression) “Republicans were talking about a lot of things that we don\u2019t talk about here at CNN. We don\u2019t cover those things. Those are things on the right. We don\u2019t cover \u2019em.” Republicans were more prepared. They rehearsed. They had mock hearings. They spent a lot of time pretending to interview Mueller. But if you\u2019re David “Rodham” Gergen and CNN, how can you not cover what we cover?<\/p>\n
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<\/a>I think he\u2019s joined some cruise company called Bulwark. I don\u2019t know. Some such thing. Anyway, here is his tweet: “Look, I think Mueller had a bad day. I think his performance bolstered the case that his staff ran the show. But Mueller also demonstrated that he is a vastly better man than Trump.” (repeats) Mueller “demonstrated that he is a vastly better man than Trump.” You know how? “Trump heaps gross scorn on him for two years and Mueller refused a single ad hominem.”<\/p>\n