{"id":322616,"date":"2019-09-19T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=322616"},"modified":"2019-09-23T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:24:22","slug":"dems-cant-let-go-of-russia-collusion-lie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/19\/dems-cant-let-go-of-russia-collusion-lie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Can\u2019t Let Go of Russia Collusion Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Democrats cannot let go. They can\u2019t let go of Russian collusion. Jerry Nadler and that stupid hearing with Lewandowski<\/a>. It is amazing. It\u2019s purely for show, folks. There is no crime that Nadler is investigating. And do you know why? It\u2019s really very simple. The reason there isn\u2019t a crime that Nadler is pursuing in this faux impeachment business is that the FBI and Mueller investigation were what?<\/p>\n

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They were counterintelligence investigations. They were not criminal investigations because there was no evidence of a crime. As such, you cannot obstruct, a president cannot obstruct a counterintelligence investigation. It isn\u2019t possible. Obstruction is a crime. And so, for there to be obstruction, there has to be the investigation of a crime. There never was an investigation of a crime.<\/p>\n

Now, most people don\u2019t know this. You in this audience do because we spent countless days explaining that this was a counterintelligence investigation, not criminal. As such, there\u2019s no way Trump could obstruct anything. Now, what Nadler and his buddies are trying to say, “Well, that\u2019s not true because what Trump did, Trump went to a bunch of people and told them to make sure this investigation ended quickly, that he didn\u2019t do anything, if they want to investigate to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen in the –”<\/p>\n

He can do all of that and more! There is no crime here. So everything Nadler is doing is purely for show. They do not have an impeachable offensive. They do not have obstruction. They do not have collusion. They\u2019ve got nothing.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s really frustrating because this is the kind of thing that\u2019s so esoteric that unless you explain it to people like I am explaining it to you, everybody\u2019s gonna think there\u2019s an impeachment inquiry going on. There isn\u2019t even one of those going on! What Nadler is doing is not an official impeachment inquiry. He hasn\u2019t made the proper steps nothing for that to actually exist. This is nothing but show. And in the midst of that, we got this story that some intelligence person overheard the president say something that he didn\u2019t think was proper.<\/p>\n

So he called somebody, and he reported to the inspector general for the intelligence community. He reported that the president said something. It\u2019s not against the law for the president to say things! The president can say what he wants to anybody! Like Obama could say to Medvedev (paraphrased), “Hey, tell Vladimir to be patient. As soon as I win reelection, I\u2019ll get back on schedule getting rid of American nukes.” Remember that open-mic grab of Obama talking to the Russian president, who was then gonna go back and report to Putin?<\/p>\n