{"id":354212,"date":"2020-06-29T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=354212"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T18:30:10","slug":"you-have-to-doubt-the-russia-taliban-bounty-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/06\/29\/you-have-to-doubt-the-russia-taliban-bounty-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russia-Taliban Bounty Story Is Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, this Taliban story. Folks, I\u2019m gonna go out on a limb here. I really think this so-called news about Russia offering to pay the Taliban &#8212; you know, this bounty story out there that Trump says he didn\u2019t know anything about. I really think that&#8230; There\u2019s nothing in the news media that\u2019s true anymore. You have to constantly remember this. There\u2019s nothing that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-354246\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062920-Rush-Papers-Times-Lies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062920-Rush-Papers-Times-Lies.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062920-Rush-Papers-Times-Lies-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062920-Rush-Papers-Times-Lies-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You cannot rely on the first take of anything you see in the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, and so I don\u2019t. And my suspicion is aroused at every one of these stories that has supposedly bombshell, end-of-the-road news for Trump. So this news about Russia offering to pay the Taliban a bounty, I think it\u2019s a leak. I think it comes from Democrat political operatives to hurt Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I wouldn\u2019t suspect&#8230; What\u2019s this news doing out here now? None of these figures are in the news. I think this news goes way, way back to March. They didn\u2019t want this news to be buried by the coronavirus news when it was new, and the shutdown was new, and the lockdown was new, \u2019cause this doesn\u2019t make any sense at all.<\/p>\n<p>Now Pelosi is right back at it. If there is any doubt now, Pelosi is using this fake story to revive the Russia conspiracy story again, the theories that the Trump campaign &#8220;meddled in the election,&#8221; that Trump is &#8220;an agent&#8221; of Putin. She\u2019s using this to say, &#8220;Trump didn\u2019t know anything about it. He said he didn\u2019t know anything about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So if Putin wants to pay a bounty for killing American soldiers and Trump looks the other way, this fits right in with the fact that they will not give up on this meddling and conspiracy story. She was on This Week yesterday, ABC, and said she didn\u2019t believe Trump\u2019s denial that he was briefed on the plot. Instead, he wasn\u2019t briefed. She said she believed that Russia is blackmailing Trump. (impression) &#8220;This is as bad as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And yet the president will not confront the Russians on this score. Denies being briefed.&#8221; She added, &#8220;With him, all roads lead to Putin.&#8221; They won\u2019t give this up. This whole thing, this whole bounty story that he says he knew nothing about, I\u2019m sure it\u2019s a leak from Democrat operatives &#8212; with the willing participation the Drive-By Media &#8212; to carry forth this coup attempt.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, no, no, folks, it\u2019s fake news. This entire Taliban bounty-paying, Trump ignoring it, not knowing about it &#8212; he\u2019s a traitor, he\u2019s being blackmailed &#8212; is fake news! It\u2019s all made up. It\u2019s got everything the Democrats need to continue their coup. It\u2019s got the Taliban; it\u2019s got Russia. It\u2019s got the U.K. involved &#8212; which is heavily involved in the effort to get rid of Trump, their intelligence communities were.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s got the New York Times involved. It\u2019s got CNN involved. Those are the two places the primary leaks in the story (the Russian meddling story) went. The U.K. was also deeply involved in the Russian hoax to get rid of Trump. Here\u2019s the story from CNN, in case you somehow have missed it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html\">&#8220;Russian intelligence officers offered cash rewards to Taliban fighters to kill American and U.K. troops in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-354234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-NY-Times-062922220-LIES.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-NY-Times-062922220-LIES.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-NY-Times-062922220-LIES-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-NY-Times-062922220-LIES-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Now, keep in mind something: Only two Americans have been killed in Afghanistan this entire year. Only two! We don\u2019t have a massive swath of murder out there taking place of American troops. Two! This is anonymous-source allegations just like all of the other lie stories with Russia meddling in the New York Times for nearly four years.<\/p>\n<p>It probably is a fake intelligence report, just like the golden showers story, all these prostitutes that Trump hired to urinate on a bed because Obama and Michelle (My Belle) Obama had slept on it in Moscow. Now, unlike the Obama Regime, the adults in the Trump administration don\u2019t brief the president on unverified intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>But Comey and Brennan and Clapper went into the Oval Office &#8212; or went into Trump Tower on January 6th and told Trump a bunch of BS. They told him about the golden showers story as though it were verified. The Trump intelligence team does not waste his time with unverified stuff. There\u2019s no question in my mind that this whole thing is a continuation of the Russian-meddling hoax, and I\u2019ll tell you why.<\/p>\n<p>That hoax, that ongoing coup, the impeachment of Ukraine &#8212; that brought in a ton of campaign donations, folks. Over the past few years, that brought in money like the Democrats haven\u2019t seen before. And Pelosi wants to keep that alive for that reason to make donors feel they haven\u2019t been duped by a phony story, to make donors feel they haven\u2019t been duped by the entire story.<\/p>\n<p>Stop and think. You\u2019re a Democrat donor or you\u2019re a Democrat consumer of news, and for four years&#8230; Let\u2019s just say three, for the hell of it. For three years, every news source you trust and every elected Democrat you trust and have given money to &#8212; or have purchased online news subscriptions to, like the Post or the New York Times or CNN &#8212; has lied to you through their teeth.<\/p>\n<p>They told you Trump was a goner. They told you Trump was history. They told you Trump was cheating. They told you, &#8220;Trump cheated, stole the election, worked with Putin! He\u2019s a Russian agent. Putin\u2019s running him! Trump stole it; it should have been Hillary.&#8221; For three years, you were told this, as a Democrat donor, as a Democrat voter, as a Democrat consumer of fake news.<\/p>\n<p>You bought it. You bought everything they said about it, and then here comes the evidence and there wasn\u2019t any evidence and there wasn\u2019t any collusion and there wasn\u2019t any of this and there wasn\u2019t any of that. You can\u2019t let it go. You can\u2019t apologize for getting it wrong. No! You can\u2019t let it go. You gotta continue it. So we have a fake impeachment with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-354219\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062920-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062920-Pelosi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062920-Pelosi-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/APP-062920-Pelosi-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have fake Avenatti, fake Stormy Daniels, fake Michael Cohen &#8212; all premised on the fact that somebody\u2019s got the news, the evidence that Trump cheated, stole the election, worked with Russia. Nobody has it \u2019cause it didn\u2019t happen. Now? Now we have news of the Taliban having a bounty! &#8220;Russian intelligence officers offering cash rewards to the Taliban to kill U.S. troops,&#8221; of which there have been two deaths all year, and now Pelosi has revived &#8212; running around talking about &#8212; the Russian hoax.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s got&#8230; Well, she can\u2019t let it die. She can\u2019t let all of these donors figure out that they wasted millions and millions and millions of dollars. I\u2019ll tell you something else. If Plugs Biden is 12 points ahead in the polls or 20 points ahead in the polls or whatever number these fake polls have Biden ahead by, why are they going back to this? Why are they going back to Trump-Russia? Why are they going back to the coup?<\/p>\n<p>Why are they going back to the hoax? Why are they going back to the fact that Trump stole the election, worked with Putin, is a traitor, and is a Russian agent? Why are they going back to that if Biden\u2019s really ahead by all that much? I don\u2019t believe any of this. I don\u2019t believe a word that I see of how much trouble Trump is in, about his internal polling being bad, stories are now that it\u2019s so bad Trump is threatening to quit.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s so depressed, he walking around the White House thinking of resigning because he\u2019s got no chance of winning. (Snort!) It\u2019s just&#8230; It\u2019s absurd, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Fake news! It&#039;s all made up. 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