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RUSH: Now, this Hillary e-mail story. Let me just do a brief timeline of this. Under the umbrella that, how many times have we, over the course of the last 25 years, how many times have we been treated to news stories that the Clintons are precariously balanced on the edge here and they could go over the cliff, this could be it, and each and every time not a thing happens? I can give you one example, I give you many of those, but one example specifically of how we end up being played. <\/p>\n

During the Monica Lewinsky episode, Bill Clinton was required to give testimony before the grand jury. So he goes up and he gives the testimony, the grand jurors go to the White House. The testimony occurs in one of the rooms of the White House. At the end of the day when Clinton\u2019s testimony is over, there\u2019s a leak that the prosecutors asked him something, Ken Starr asked him something, and Clinton just lost it and went berserk. And so the speculation began. What was it? What caused it? What was the question? What did Clinton do? And then little leaks continued to come day by day reinforcing that. <\/line><\/p>\n

Then some time later, I don\u2019t know if it was days or weeks, they released the video. And there was nothing. There was literally nothing. There was one question about cigars when Clinton raised his eyebrows about a half an inch, and that was it. And it was immediately apparent that everybody had been setup. And the purpose of the leak was to make everybody think, “Uh-oh, Clinton is on the verge of losing it. This is gonna be bad. We\u2019re on the verge of getting Clinton,” what have you, and then nothing happened. And the uptake on it was the Clintons survive again, whoever was trying to destroy Clinton lied. It made it look like the Clintons were the ones totally innocent and the people out to get them were the mad, rabid dogs. And that happened I can\u2019t tell you how many times over how many different events. <\/p>\n

Now, you come to the Hillary e-mail story and look at how this has all played out. Go back to the first day you heard about the fact that she had a server in her basement, wherever, and that she was running a private e-mail system \u2019cause she didn\u2019t trust the government. Remember everything you\u2019ve heard about, everything you\u2019ve heard about it was, “Wow, this is a huge violation. Holy cow, classified. Oh, my God, Mrs. Clinton,” and we started hearing the word <\/line>“indictment,” we started hearing the word “FBI investigation” and we started hearing Huma and Obama and so forth. And then there was the drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip where every day there was something new that clouded the issue and raised more doubts about Mrs. Clinton. <\/line><\/p>\n

But nothing ever happened. Nothing ever happened. It just kept drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, dripping, and everybody started guessing, “Maybe Obama\u2019s just trying to secure death by a thousand cuts. Maybe Obama, this is how he\u2019s getting even.” Remember all the stories, all the explanations for this. And while it\u2019s all going on, you can\u2019t escape the talk, “Rush, you think they\u2019re gonna get Hillary this time? This is really beside bad. If this was Petraeus, look what they did to Petraeus, Rush. Petraeus did half of this and threatened with jail. You think we\u2019re gonna get Hillary?” <\/p>\n

“I doubt it. I don\u2019t think so,” I always answered. This is the short version of the timeline, but you get the drift. <\/p>\n

Now, let me share with you some headlines today. The Drudge Report off of a New York Times story<\/a>: “FBI Fury: Obama Sabotaging Hillary Investigation.” Wait a minute. I thought all this time it was Obama running the Hillary investigation, and it was Obama slowing down the Justice Department, standing in the way of this because of what an investigation might reveal about him. I thought it was Obama in charge of the drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now the New York Times has a story saying the FBI is livid that Obama is sabotaging the Hillary investigation, which makes it look like Obama is trying to save Hillary. Really? Now, over here all of this intense focus on what Biden\u2019s gonna do. And I talked to a bunch of people today, this morning, who really believe that all of this focus on what Biden is gonna do is proof positive that Hillary\u2019s gonna be indicted. “That\u2019s all you need to you know, Rush!<\/p>\n

“The fact that Biden is looking at it closer and closer every day, the fact that people are pressuring Biden to do it, the fact that there are stories about Biden family wants him to do it. There are stories about Biden not knowing whether he should, but he\u2019s looking at it. You throw in the story about his dead son who said, “Do it, Dad!” All of this. Now Biden says, “I\u2019m gonna decide in three days.” The experts I talk to say this just means one thing. It means Biden\u2019s not gonna do this if Hillary\u2019s gonna hang around. <\/p>\n

Not after the way the media is talking about her debate performance the other night, heralding it as the greatest ever. Why should Biden get in? But he\u2019s still looking at getting in. “Rush, I\u2019m telling you, that means there\u2019s something gonna be happening to Hillary.” Now there is a UK Daily Mail story<\/a>: “Investigation into Hillary\u2019s email server focuses on Espionage Act and could get her 10 years in jail as FBI agent says she could be prosecuted just for failing to tell Obama,” and here are the bullet points:<\/p>\n

\"original\"“Federal law makes it a crime for security clearance holders to fail to tell superiors when ‘gross negligence\u2019 causes a security breach.” Check. That happened. “FBI agent tells DailyMail.com about Hillary Clinton: ‘The secretary\u2019s superior is the president of the United States.'” That\u2019s who she should have told. That\u2019s who she didn\u2019t tell. That\u2019s a crime. Bullet point number three: “‘So unless he were aware of what she was doing when she was doing it, it seems there could be a legal problem [for her].'” The final but point the UK Daily Mail story: “Obama was asked Sunday on 60 Minutes if he knew at the time that Clinton was running a home-brew email server; he replied, ‘No.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

Oh, he did more than that. He said it probably wasn\u2019t that big a deal, even though he thought she had made a stupid mistake. Now, when I saw him say that, that she made a stupid mistake, that was Obama saying she did it; we all know she did it. That was not Obama protecting her. The New York Times story from which the Drudge headline is culled: “FBI Fury: Obama Sabotaging Hillary Investigation.” That headline is “Obama\u2019s Comments on Clinton E-mails Collide with FBI Inquiry<\/a>.” The New York Times apparently is not sick of this story. <\/p>\n

These former law enforcement officials talking to the New York Times don\u2019t seem to realize that Obama has fundamentally transformed America, and things like the FBI being nonpartisan are now quaint, outmoded concepts. “Federal agents were still cataloging the classified information from Hillary Rodham Clinton\u2019s personal e-mail server last week when President Obama went on television and played down the matter. …<\/p>\n

“Those statements angered FBI agents who have been working for months to determine whether Ms. Clinton\u2019s e-mail setup had in fact put any of the nation\u2019s secrets at risk, according to current and former law enforcement officials. Investigators have not reached any conclusions about whether the information on the server had been compromised…” Well, wait. Okay, that little sentence right here in the midst of all of this headline brouhaha: “Investigators have not reached any conclusions about whether the information on the server had been compromised or whether to recommend charges…” <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, then what is all of this about? I have allowed myself to be played by these people way too many times all of these years, and the inconsistencies in this e-mail story from day to day… One day, “There\u2019s nothing to see here. There\u2019s nothing to it. It\u2019s no big deal,” to, “Obama\u2019s shielding her! Obama\u2019s doing it. It\u2019s totally up to Obama what he wants to do. If he wants her to get indicted, she\u2019s gonna be indicted. If he doesn\u2019t, she won\u2019t be.” It\u2019s run the gamut. And it\u2019s largely speculation — informed speculation, granted, but it\u2019s still speculation. <\/p>\n

And now we hear that the FBI is investigating violation of the Espionage Act, which would send her to jail for 10 years if she\u2019s indicted and if she\u2019s convicted, and that Obama\u2019s standing in the way of that investigation. We\u2019ve reached the point where, as far as the low-information voters are concerned, they don\u2019t care anymore. It\u2019s news about something and nothing ever happens. It\u2019s a drip, drip, drip. Someday the news is really big and damaging potentially like this, and other days it\u2019s just no big deal. Nothing to see here.<\/p>\n

The server was in a bathroom in Denver and nothing happened. And Mrs. Clinton, she didn\u2019t know if anything was classified, and she\u2019s answered every question about, and all this stuff, and after a while people glaze over because they just can\u2019t keep track of it, don\u2019t want to keep track of it. It\u2019s a story that\u2019s been out there for months, and nothing has happened. If it\u2019s a setup, if we\u2019re being played like we always have been played, well, then they\u2019re doing it really well, because this is huge story. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s sabotaging the Hillary investigation. The FBI is now trying to prove she violated the Espionage Act. That\u2019s big. That\u2019s minimum 10 years. If she escapes all of this, what do you think the headlines are? What do you think the narrative is? “Superwoman! They threw everything they had at Hillary Clinton, but in the end she bested all of them. In the end she outlasted all of them. In the end, even if she had violated the law, they couldn\u2019t prove it. They didn\u2019t have the guts to prosecute. They couldn\u2019t do anything with it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s an opportunity to build this woman up as Superwoman — smart — particularly coming off this so-called great and brilliant debate performance. And I\u2019ve just been played one too many times, many too many times. I\u2019ve seen this in action before. And over here, don\u2019t forget the name David Petraeus. David Petraeus was charged and he was threatened with jail for doing much less than what these allegations against Mrs. Clinton are. Meaning if they want to go after somebody on this basis, they can and they can do it easily and they\u2019ve got the goods. <\/p>\n

You see, that\u2019s the rub: They\u2019ve got the goods. FBI investigation or not, they\u2019ve got the goods. She violated the law. As I said two weeks ago, where the hell is the indictment? What is going on here? What is the point of this drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip and it\u2019s to place. Honestly how many of you got up today, saw this news, and got excited? “Oh, man! Oh, man! It looks like they\u2019re really getting close.” See, that\u2019s the purpose. Yeah, you go back and the real news out of the Bill Clinton grand jury was that he committed perjury. <\/line><\/p>\n

That was the real news.<\/p>\n

But they were able to diminish that because they leaked the fact that he had lost it and gone nuts with some question about Monica Lewinsky and some cigars. That didn\u2019t happen, but that\u2019s what everybody was looking for when they released the video. They didn\u2019t notice the lies. They didn\u2019t register. And when it was all over, the wind went out of everybody\u2019s sails again and they were disappointed. “I thought we were gonna get him, man. I thought he blew up! I thought…” We realized we got set up and played again. The question is: “Is it happening again now with this e-mail caca? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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