Here we have as usual a filthy disgusting Liar and links below to a bunch of Idiots on the left and in the media. If Tapper would have grill marks on his split open head I wonder if he thinks it would still be a beautiful sound? What a Disgusting F^cknut!
Tom Perez, the Democratic National Committee’s new chairman, stonewalled reporters Tuesday by refusing to divulge any concrete information about the DNC’s financial payments to Fusion GPS, the opposition research company that produced the salacious “Trump Dossier.”
In his first national press conference since the DNC payments became public, Perez stoutly defended the DNC’s decision to hire Fusion GPS, saying it would have constituted “malpractice” to not retain the opposition research firm.
“Opposition research is not simply something that ought be done, it would be malpractice not to do it,” he told reporters assembled for an on-the-record newsmakers breakfast meeting held by the Christian Science Monitor.
But Perez refused to disclose any basic information about the DNC’s role with the dossier and Fusion GPS.
When specifically asked, the DNC chairman declined to report how much money the DNC paid Fusion GPS, which DNC official authorized the payment or identify any DNC officials who actively collaborated with the opposition research firm.
One week after the Washington Post revealed that the Clinton presidential campaign and the DNC paid Fusion GPS, he told reporters he still had not examined how much money had been paid to the firm. “I don’t know how much of the opposition research was Fusion opposition research. I have not desegregated that amount.”
Perez also indicated that he had not ordered an internal investigation about the DNC’s role with the firm.
The DNC chairman continued to plead ignorance over the payments, repeating a previous claim that the hiring of Fusion GPS did not occur on his watch.
“As you know I wasn’t working at the DNC the time of this contract,” he told reporters.
He also repeated the Democrats’ charge that the Russians hacked the DNC emails and the Russians were “in regular contact” with the Trump campaign.
“We know that we were hacked by the Russians at the DNC. We now know from yesterday the Trump and the Russians were in regular contact. They weren’t getting together to trade vodka recipes. They were getting together to affect the outcome of the race in 2016,” Perez said.
Trump “has a very shady relationship with Russian authorities,” according to Perez. “What we know from the research, the Trump campaign and the Russians were talking to each other,” he added.
He also pointed a finger at the Washington Free Beacon’s financier Paul Singer, who retained Fusion GPS before the dossier was compiled, claiming the DNC merely “continued” the project.
“When their work was done, it was continued by the Democrats,” Perez said.
Omar Navarro: Maxine Waters is so out of touch with her constituents that she just blamed “Russian bots” for disrupting her town hall.
Waters blamed Russian bots for disrupting her town hall and hanging posters outside.
It doesn’t work that way, Maxine.
Maxine Waters: It is most disturbing to me that this Russian account pushed an “Impeach Maxine Waters” hashtag that ultimately trended on Twitter during that afternoon. The hashtag appeared to be coordinated with large, elaborate posters that were posted outside the town hall venue by disrupters, who were probably given the financial resources and assistance necessary to carry out their campaign of disruption.
It is stunning that such idiots are not only in office but elevated to a level of stature inside the Democrat Party.
On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock unloaded his weapons on a country music festival from his room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.
59 people were killed and 546 others were injured.
Police have still not explained his motive for the shooting. Paddock’s girlfriend and loudmouth brother have quietly disappeared. The witness gave one interview and went silent. The killer’s hard drive went missing. The hotel has not released any footage of the killer. It goes on and on…
The story has been revised numerous times and now this…
Las Vegas police announced today 30 days after the shooting that an officer discharged his gun in the room the night of the shooting. This is just coming out today — nearly 30 days later. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported:
A Metropolitan Police Department officer accidentally discharged his weapon inside the Mandalay Bay gunman’s suite the night of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, the Clark County sheriff confirmed Monday.
The police firearm went off inside the suite sometime after officers made entry, the sheriff said. But the round or rounds were not fired in the same room where gunman Stephen Paddock was found dead with what has been described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“It happened and we’re investigating it, just like we do with any officer-involved use of force,” Sheriff Joe Lombardo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Nobody was struck.”
It’s unclear what caused the officer in question, who has not been named, to discharge his weapon.
The sheriff also confirmed Monday that the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay, where the gunman’s corner suite was located, did not have security cameras facing the gunman’s room or the stairwell door that Paddock had apparently sealed sometime before the mass shooting. The only cameras on the floor faced the elevators.
This may also be the worst police investigation in US history. And it makes you think the government is hiding details from the public.
Oh come on, this is out of control now. Nothing about story is making sense. https://t.co/83FE7X6Lkm
The forces of law and order no longer control the streets of Chicago. Heck, they can't even control inmates in the jail. Civil order is collapsing. We learn that once incarcerated, the inmates are controlling the Cook County Jail and engaging in mass behavior so vile that public defenders are refusing to enter and meet their clients.
What follows is so disgusting that readers are cautioned to proceed only if psychologically able to face repulsive information.
Masturbating inmates have become a common sight on the walk to and from holding cells where defense attorneys meet clients, and at the jail and in courthouse lockups. Last week, in a letter to Chief Judge Timothy Evans, Public Defender Amy Campanelli said her staff has reached a breaking point.
Amy Campanelli (Rich Hein, Sun-Times).
Campanelli declined to share a copy of the letter, but confirmed that she warned the judge that her staff won't visit the jail starting Nov. 6 unless he or Sheriff Tom Dart can offer up a solution.
A spokesman for Evans said Campanelli will have a chance to speak at a regularly scheduled judges' meeting that day.
"There have always been these incidents since I became a public defender," said Campanelli, who has been in the office for more than a decade. "But it's never been like it is today, where it's like the behavior we're seeing now, every day, or every other day. It's just become pervasive. We've tried everything."
Campanelli – who lauded Dart's efforts to combat the phenomenon – said nothing has worked. Her office provided a timeline dating back to October 2015, detailing attempts to deal with an increasing number of incidents. In letter obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, Campanelli wrote to Dart in March, describing it as a "crisis" and calling for guards to be assigned to every lockup in the criminal courthouse.
"Of late, it has become a daily occurrence," she wrote. "Male detainees constantly expose themselves and masturbate while in the lockup behind the courtrooms."
The sheriff's policy director, Cara Smith, naturally minimizes the situation: "This is something that happens in custodial environments, period[.]"
But Grimm notes:
No other jail seems to have the same problem with public indecency on a similar scale to Cook County, according to the state Public Defenders Association and the Illinois Sheriffs' Association. Smith said there seems to be no reason for the number of incidents, other than a bizarre sense of nihilism among a relative handful of the 7,000-plus detainees at the jail. Attempts to stop it have met mixed results – in part because of resistance from individual public defenders and Campanelli herself, according to Smith.
The public defenders are caught on the horns of a dilemma, because the sheriff has supported legislation that would heighten the penalties for indecent exposure in jails to a felony, a move the P.D.s oppose:
Campanelli said that, on principle, public defenders couldn't support legislation that upgraded a misdemeanor to a felony. Female staffers say they face a similar dilemma when deciding whether to press charges after one of their clients pulls out his penis. The additional charges add potential jail time for their clients, and forces defenders to hand off the case to another attorney.
According a Facebook post cited by the Second City Cop blog, an attempt was made to offer a pizza party in return for halting the offensive behavior, but:
Dart tried to negotiate a pizza deal with the inmates and the next day they did a circle jerk around one of his female Directors. The Illinois Sheriff and Public Defenders say no other prison in the country has this sexual assault/masturbation problem. Way to go Sheriff.
It went as far as negotiating with pizza in a div 9 tier asking [them] to promise not to masturbate after a pizza party, next day they all masturbated in front of a director, they formed a circle around her and did a jerk circle around her. jailguards warned her and asked to escort her, she felt confident that the pizza from the night before was going to stop the jerking off. she trusted the inmates[.]
If public defenders refuse to enter the jail starting next Monday, no doubt there will be "civil liberties" lawyers charging that the inmates' right to counsel is being denied. But if inmate behavior rises to the level of criminality that repels counsel, then who is violating whose rights?
For the moment, the sheriff is spending $40,000 a week in overtime to have extra monitors of inmates.
But this is a problem that money can't solve. Inmates have lost all respect for civil society and all fear of punishment, and that is part of the larger problem of the breakdown in civil order in Chicago, on its way to becoming America's first third-world City.
Monday was quite the news day. Mueller indicted Paul Manafort, Richard Gates, a Manafort business partner, and George Papadopoulos. The latter two men are completely unknown to most Americans, very minor characters in this bit of political theater, akin to the fairy servants of A Midsummer NIght's Dream. After nearly a year, this is Mueller's big play? The results of a multi-millions dollar "investigation" (witch hunt)? Sixteen hardcore Democrat lawyers on his staff and this is it? A big nothing that is essentially, as Andrew McCarthy wrote yesterday, "...not much there, a boon to Trump."
This is most likely just an overture. Mueller and his gang of lefty thug lawyers play hardball and will use every trick in their bag to get these men to betray others. But what if there is nothing to betray? What if the only crooks are among the Democrat left?
It seems like Mueller perhaps rushed his big splash onto the stage. As of last Saturday, Manafort had no inkling he was about to be indicted. Papadopoulos had no heads up. His lawyer was not even available to him yesterday morning. This is unusual in federal non-violent crimes indictments. Was Mueller perhaps feeling the heat from all that has been revealed about his part in the Uranium One scandal and pal Comey's knowledge of the Clinton-commissioned "dossier"?
The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal has called for him to resign. There have in fact been numerous calls for him to resign given his and Comey's role in overseeing the Uranium One pay-to-play scheme. Seems like he is feeling some heat. As legal analysts (real ones, not CNN's Jeffrey Toobin) have weighed in all day, these indictments are a big load of nothing, certainly nothing related to any alleged Trump/Russia collusion. Clearly Mueller has found little or nothing on that score.
This flurry of legal activity then is meant to be a big distraction from the enormously serious scandal that is the Clinton participation in selling -- for $145m + to Clinton “charities” -- 20% of US uranium to Russia. It was also revealed this past week that it was the Hillary campaign and the DNC that paid nearly $10m for that ridiculous bunch of nonsense about Trump meant to ruin his political chances of becoming President and then, after he was elected, to ensure his impeachment. They commissioned and paid a fortune for a manufactured bit of licentious fiction so obviously false on its face that no one wanted to use it except Comey, David Corn of Mother Jones and Buzzfeed, NBC's sleazy attack outlet.
Mueller likely knew all about this as well. Certainly Comey did; he offered to contribute while head of the FBI, with taxpayer dollars, to Fusion GPS's costs of its production, as did Obama, it would seem. There is no way in hell that each of these high-level government operators did not know it was fake and who had generated it. They knew and they reveled in it because they knew the media would run with it and thought the rest of us would fall for it.
The establishment left has always accused conservatives of doing that of which they are in fact deeply and regularly guilty. If Republicans had a fraction of the left's willingness to discard any sense of ethics they may have learned as children, the scale might not seem so unequal, so tilted to the advantage of a radical and corrupt left because the mainstream media are so far left themselves. The tactics and strategies of the Democrats, in DC and the media, are completely antithetical to the values of most Americans, just as the current fad of disrespect shown the American flag and our anthem is offensive to most Americans.
But somehow this fact is a mystery to the DC establishment, left and right, and to the media bigs. They believe, to the bottom of their dark hearts, that their job is to educate the rest of us, to convince us that they know best, that what they believe is right and that what we think we know is just wrong. They actually believe that the rest of us must learn to embrace what they believe -- because they are right and we are stupid. This is why they so love to mock us, in their columns, their speeches, their films, and their late-night television programs. But it's never going to happen. We will never cave to their anti-American, anti-Constitutional, subversion of our culture. They still cannot grasp that this is why Trump won.
The real hero of this poorly-directed theatrical production of Mueller's is CA Congressman Devin Nunes, our Mr. Smith who went to Washington, a man who is the antithesis to Adam Schiff, a dog with a meatless bone. Nunes alone has kept searching for all the dots that need to be connected while Schiff continues to bleat about Trump's collusion with Russia and to ignore the many, many crimes of the Clintons.
Nunes has a few allies in the House and seemingly only Sen. Grassley in the Senate. The rest of the Republicans need to step up to the plate and back Nunes all the way to indictments of all those who participated in the dossier fraud and even more importantly, the Uranium One scandal. We conservatives are keeping track. Those who sit quietly with zipped lips in the face of this level of corruption, the selling out of our national security, need to go. If they cannot stand up to the unscrupulous left, they should leave Congress and let those who know the difference between right and wrong take their places.
More indictments are likely on the horizon. Will they be more sensational or even more toothless? Either way, this entire fiasco of a "probe" has been shown to be what it is, a volcanic eruption of fake news that has blown back into the faces of the left.
Mueller is a spectacular example of everything that is wrong with our government. He, like Comey, the Clintons and their entourage, Schumer, Pelosi, Schiff & company truly believe they are above the law, that our Constitution does not apply to them. But it does and that is why Mueller is running scared. Perhaps it is beginning to dawn on him that the American people are not as dumb as he thought.
RUSH: In leading into all of this today, I want to focus on what the media is focusing on. The media is slowly and reluctantly — not all of them — but slowly and reluctantly realizing that the indictment of Manafort doesn’t even get them close to where they want to be, and certainly it doesn’t get them close to where they thought they would be on Friday when it was leaked that there had been sealed indictments.
Over the weekend they all had convinced themselves that whatever this indictment, ’cause prosecutors come out with the big gun first. And stand by, because that’s a salient point here. All prosecutors who know what they’re doing come out with the big guns first, particularly when you’re at trial and you’ve got the jury impaneled. You load up the big guns because you want to create the indelible impression right off the bat that your perp is guilty.
So these people in the Drive-Bys were convinced because of the immersion they’ve been in for the past year that whatever this indictment was, that it was gonna be big, because they’ve all bought into the notion that Mueller is there to get Trump, and Mueller’s investigators are there to get Trump. And everybody in Washington’s joined at the hip in the project of getting Trump, getting him out of town, getting him out of the White House. This indictment comes, and at first they followed through on what their natural progression led them to, that this is it, this is the first phase, Manafort, Trump campaign, this is it, we’re on the way.
And then they ended up having expert guests on all of their shows tell ’em, “Wait a minute. The White House is right. There’s nothing in this indictment that has anything to do with Manafort at all during his time with Trump on the campaign. There’s nothing here. This is about Manafort and his business practices. And, in fact, this indictment has more of a danger potential for another Democrat, Tony Podesta, than it does for Trump.”
So after a day of a quasi-cold shower that didn’t totally cool them off yesterday, they then refocused on George Papadopoulos, because Papadopoulos was in the campaign, and Papadopoulos copped a plea. He pled guilty to a process crime. He lied to investigators and his plea occurred on October 5th, but Mueller — this is important, too — held the announcement of that for his announcement of the indictments of Manafort and his buddy, Gates, yesterday.
The problem is that Papadopoulos was not an official member of the campaign. He was a liar. That’s what he’s been charged with. The best way to describe this poor guy is that he’s a rogue. You know, campaigns, particularly the Trump campaign, is where all the action was. I mean, you go to the Republican primaries and the Trump campaign was where it’s at.
This radio show, this is where it’s at. And the first 10 years when this is the only show that’s out there, none of the others had sprung up yet, Fox News hadn’t started, I mean, this was where it was. Everyone wanted to be involved. Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.
That’s what the Trump campaign was. It attracted hangers-on like mad who wanted to be part of the campaign. Everybody wants to be part of something big. Everybody wants to have meaning in their lives. And this guy glommed onto the campaign, was able to pass himself off to certain people as a meaningful cog, but he never was. But the Drive-Bys have turned their attention to him because it’s abundantly clear to them that he provides a better route to getting Trump right now than Manafort does.
Now, Andy McCarthy, my good friend who is a former federal prosecutor, as most of you know by now, successfully prosecuted the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, 1993. Sent him to the gallows. Well, sent him to prison after a successfully tried case. Andy was a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, which is Manhattan. And Andy has since left and is now a writer, books, columns, so forth, predominantly at National Review.
And he had a piece. He had a piece today (well, he actually posted it last night) that put this whole thing in terrific perspective. Remember the experience from which he comes. He is a former federal prosecutor. He has done what Mueller is doing. Not as a special counsel, but as an investigator and somebody who gathers evidence for the express purpose of getting a conviction against those who have been charged or gathering enough evidence to secure charges.
I want to read to you a paragraph from Andy’s piece because it remind me of a conversation I had with him about this long, long, long ago, and I want to add to one of his points here. He writes, “To put it another way: Notice that Mueller did not make Papadopoulos plead guilty to collusion with Russia. For a prosecutor…” Papadopoulos pled guilty to lying, a process crime, a Martha Stewart kind of crime. He didn’t plead guilty to what everybody is hoping to prove here and that is collusion with Russia.
Andy writes, “For a prosecutor, there is nothing better than getting a cooperating accomplice to admit guilt to the [entire] scheme the prosecutor is investigating.” If you can get that, you are halfway home. “It goes a long way toward proving that the scheme existed. Once you’ve got that — once you have a cooperating accomplice admitting guilt to the scheme — it becomes much easier to prove that the cooperator’s confederates are guilty too.
“But even though there’s a great deal of evidence that Papadopoulos colluded with Russia, there’s no charge along those lines.” That’s not what Papadopoulos has been charged with, which is utterly strange. All there is… “There’s just a single false statement charge on which — according to the plea agreement — he’s probably looking at no jail time. And if there is, it’s not gonna be any more than six months. Why no collusion charge?” Papadopoulos is out there admitting that he had this professor and he was telling this professor stuff and the professor said he had dirt on Hillary.
He was trying to arrange a meeting between the professor and the campaign, and Papadopoulos wanted to be the go-between. He wanted to be a powerful guy. He wanted to come up with evidence that would help the Trump campaign defeat Hillary, blah, blah. But none of that is what he’s been charged with — none of it — even though he admits it. “Why no collusion charge? Because collusion is not a crime.” Did you know that? It isn’t a crime. But here’s what I remember Andy telling me.
I’ve peeled his brain about the Blind Sheikh trial, because to me it’s been such… For me, it was a learning exercise, and it was especially relevant in recent years as all of these legal cases involving Guantanamo and terrorism and so forth sprang up and how we secured — how Andy secured — that guilty verdict. That conviction has always fascinated me, and I remember him telling me that one of his best days in the entire Blind Sheikh trial came in the first week, because he secured the cooperation of one of the other main defendants.
The Blind Sheikh had a bunch of coconspirator defendants also on trial, and Andy got one of those defendants to cooperate and plead guilty. So when this happens, and if you watch enough legal and crime shows on TV, you know that when somebody pleads guilty the exchange for an agreement or lesser charges or whatever, they have to go to court and “allocute.” (interruption) You know what that term means, Dawn, because you’re in there transcribing this stuff. “Allocute” means they have to go in there and admit it, in their own words.
They stand up before the judge and they explain to everybody what they did. Andy secured this guy, this coconspirator. He got a guilty plea out of the guy, and this guy had to allocate. He had to tell the judge in his own words what he did that made him guilty, and Andy told me he had this guy admit the whole scheme, admit everything. That was the deal. “You want to be treated differently here? You want to be slapped on the wrist? You want to be protected from these guys? You tell everything. Admit everything.”
“Admit the structure of the Blind Sheikh’s cell. Admit what your ideology is. Admit what you guys believe. Admit why that matters in terms of what you did. Admit the role of the Blind Sheikh. Admit the role of everybody else involved. Talk about the different targets that you guys all had that you were planning to bomb and the people you were planning to assassinate.” Andy made this guy get up and explain all of that, and he said that may have been the best day — one of the best days — of trial.
Because at the opening moments of the trial, I have my witness admitting everything. True, it’s a plea deal, but he’s still explaining and admitting everything, and he’s got to tell the truth or else he doesn’t get the deal. (paraphrasing) “And so I had one of the Blind Sheikh’s confederates owning up to everything on one of the first days of the trial, and there’s my case being made for me by one of the coconspirators.” The prosecutor investigating a big criminal scheme, that’s what you do. If you get a cooperator like, in this case, Papadopoulos? You make him plead guilty to the big scheme.
You make him explain the roles of the other conspirators. You make him allocute to everything. And once you have that, then you’ve proved that the big scheme exists and you are then 90% of the way to convicting the other participants. As a prosecutor, you want to get the jury over the belief hurdle as soon as you can, and even more important: In the opening statement, you have one of coconspirators stand up and admit it. He succeeded in doing that. ‘Cause once one of the coconspirators comes up there and says:
“Okay. There was a scheme. There was a plan. And I was in on it.” And if the jury believes that, well — and they have to; why else would he admit this guilty? To get a plea deal. The point is, this is not what Mueller did with Papadopoulos. Why? Because he doesn’t have it with Papadopoulos. I have to take a break. But you get the drift here. This was a — in the eyes of several people, you’ll hear some sound bites coming up) — very weak opening, if Mueller is behaving as per the usual that prosecutors and special counsels do when they’re trying to nail big fish.
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RUSH: By the way, it’s all falling apart for Papadopoulos in another way. The professor is disclaiming much of what Papadopoulos is saying. The professor’s name is Mifsud. That story coming up. I just want to close the loop on this. What did Mueller do here? Instead of having Papadopoulos cop to the whole scheme and collusion and the campaign trying to collude with Russia, instead he has this accomplice (Papadopoulos) in collusion, has him plead guilty to… What? A single false statement, which under the sentencing guidelines he’s looking at no jail time? I mean, this is a firecracker that doesn’t go off. I mean, this is a fizzler.
Why would Mueller do this?
You launch with your big guns!
You’ve got the Drive-Bys waiting for the big gun. You’ve got the Drive-Bys waiting for the end-all. This is it! This is what the investigation’s been all about since Friday, the announcement of the leak, and everybody’s chomping at the bit — and this? Manafort with nothing to do with Trump and now Papadopoulos nothing to do with collusion but instead lying to investigators? Now, Mueller is not an idiot. He knows that you want your cooperators to admit the thing you have spent months investigating actually happened and that there’s supposed all kinds of evidence of collusion, he doesn’t have Papadopoulos plead guilty to collusion because, again, collusion isn’t a crime, but also Papadopoulos can’t testify to any no matter what?
Hang on. There’s one more thing I want to add to this too.
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RUSH: So conceding that Robert Mueller isn’t an idiot, he knows what I just told you, that Andy McCarthy wanted to accomplish in the Blind Sheikh trial. You open up with the kill shot. In Andy’s case, he had one of the Blind Sheikh’s coconspirators admit to everything and finger all the other coconspirators and then spell out the targets. And that’s ideal. That’s what all prosecutors would love to be able to do.
So here’s Mueller, he’s got Manafort under indictment, and he’s got this guy Papadopoulos. And he cannot get Papadopoulos plead guilty to collusion because collusion isn’t a crime. The crime has to be conspiracy. There’s that word. And in this case, conspiracy means an agreement to violate the law, an agreement to violate a particular criminal statute, i.e., conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to bomb a building, conspiracy to hack an email system, conspiracy to hide your emails and server from whoever. If you’ve got conspiracy, now you have a crime. But he doesn’t have Papadopoulos on conspiracy.
So this is an opener without any kind of a big bang. And it means they don’t have that. If they had that, if they had Papadopoulos or Manafort on conspiracy to collude, then they would make people plead guilty to that. That’s prosecution 101. Here’s J. Christian Adams. We’ve had him on the program. He was a member of the Department of Justice’s civil rights division after Obama was inaugurated. You remember Chris quit when Eric Holder announced that there would be no Department of Justice investigation or action taken against the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia for the actions they had taken in voter fraud.
They had intimidated people from showing up at a particularly polling place or two and voting. And Holder had made it clear that we’re not gonna go after those people, so J. Christian Adams resigned and set out on a new career. He was on Fox last night and he was asked what he makes of the charges, what he makes of the Mueller indictments from yesterday, and here’s what he said.
ADAMS: It’s striking how these are charges from things that happened a long time ago, have nothing to do with Russia. All through the indictment you have these unnecessary allusions to Russia that have nothing to do with laundering Ukrainian money. It all has to do with keeping the Russia story alive by dribbling these little hints there’s something more nefarious than rank money laundering going on. So I think that’s the problem with the team that Mueller has assembled. There’s been plenty of reporting about who these lawyers are, and it’s really time to examine whether or not this investigation’s going anywhere, ’cause this is a terribly weak debut.
RUSH: Exactly right, buttressing the point that I remember Andy McCarthy making to me in a conversation about the Blind Sheikh trial. This is weak. It’s a weak opener. And his point about the lawyers that Mueller’s hired, look, they’re no different than the Drive-Bys in the sense that they’re committed leftists, they are Hillary and/or Obama campaign donors, fundraisers, big time muckety-mucks. And I’m sure they all believe that Trump did this, they all believe. They can’t believe they lost the election. They can’t believe it was straight up. It had to happen with cheating.
The charge has been ridiculous from the get-go, but they’ve made it so often they live in it now. It’s taken on a life of its own, and if these lawyers investigating this stuff are unable to be objective about this, then Mueller’s team might have a problem if this is the best they’ve got.
Now, some might say, “But, Rush, you might be forgetting the fact that Mueller could be sandbagging. Could be wanting everybody to think and analyze this the way you are.” Well, I’ll hold that out as a possibility since so much of what happens today happens for media consumption. I have no doubt that Mueller and his team — you know, Adams is right here when he talks about these irrelevant references to Russia in the Manafort indictment. Nothing to do with Russia. But they’re feeding the mob.
Mueller knows enough to know that he’s got to keep the press engaged on his side so they put some morsels in there that they know the press is gonna gobble and swallow and misapply. But it’s gonna make it look like Mueller’s on the case and Mueller’s got something, when they really don’t have anything. Now, the downside to sandbagging is what does it get them in the courtroom?
They want to get Trump for real, not just in the media. Unless they think that getting Trump in the media will be enough to force him out of office. But they, quote, unquote, gotten Trump in the media every day since the election. And Trump’s still there, and there’s no sign he’s going anywhere. Much of the daily news being ignored by these people is off-the-charts good.
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RUSH: The story on Papadopoulos not only is what he pled guilty to relatively nothing in terms of getting Trump… I mean, he pleads guilty to a process crime. They don’t even have this guy on conspiracy to collude.
It’s getting even worse now. “Mysterious Professor in Papadopoulos Doc[ument]s Says he Did not Discuss Clinton Emails.” Now, it’s a he said, he said, and we don’t know which is which except Papadopoulos did admit lying to the FBI. So there’s that. But it looks more and more like this guy was almost a groupie and a rogue. He wanted to be where the action was. He wanted to get in on the Trump campaign and he wanted to climb that ladder. He wanted to matter, and he wanted to be a key cog, a key ingredient — and he told people he was, when he wasn’t. The New York Daily News has the story.
“The mysterious unnamed professor at the center of the charges against a former President Trump adviser…” This guy was never an adviser. Never, ever did he advise Donald Trump on anything. This is how they do it. Papadopoulos never advised Trump on anything, and yet: “former President Trump advisor says he has a ‘clear conscience.’ George Papadopolous [sic], a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, pled guilty after lying about his connections with Russian officials looking to set up a meeting with the then-candidate, according to documents unveiled Monday.
“Papadopoulos admitted that he lied when he told investigators he did not meet with the professor after joining the campaign, and said that the academic” professor, for those of you in Rio Linda, “had claimed that Russian officials had ‘dirt’ and ‘thousands of emails’ from Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton. Now, the professor’s name is Joseph Mifsud. He’s “a former Maltese official.” That means, for those of you in Rio Linda, he’s from Malta. He “co-directs the London Academy of Diplomacy at the University of Stirling [and] was identified in media reports after details in the documents pointed to his attendance at a conference in Russia last year.
“He told the Daily Telegraph Tuesday that he is the professor in the documents, but said that the acquaintance in Moscow with government connections who he introduced Papadopoulos to was only an academic. Mifsud also told the paper that he did not know anything about Russian ‘dirt’ on Clinton, and said that he was upset by the ‘incredible’ claims. He also diminished a claim that he introduced Papadopoulos to a relative of Vladimir Putin, which the adviser also admitted was untrue.”
So the point, the Papadopoulos story is falling apart. And there never was anything to it because the indictment or the guilty plea is about lying to the prosecutors. Nothing about conspiracy to collude with the Russians.
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RUSH: We go back to Rick in Lexington, Kentucky. Greetings. Great to have you on the program. How are you doing?
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Isn’t it curious that after a full year of leaks left and right designed to damage the president that Mueller is able to contain an arrest he made back in July?
RUSH: (chuckles) That’s the way to look at this. Exactly right. Not just the year. Look at the money! The Clintons and the DNC spent $12 million total on that dossier and related issues. Look at the money that Mueller has spent just hiring his lawyers and whatever investigators they’ve hired. Look at the value of the free media the Democrats have been given by the media for running 24/7 destroy-Trump stories. The fact that they haven’t been able to get rid of Trump with this?
CALLER: Yep.
RUSH: This is an unprecedented onslaught and attack, both in length of time, intensity, and money spent.
CALLER: Can they use Papadopoulos…? They call him a proactive witness or whatever. Can they use him to entrap people?
RUSH: I think they did. I think they wired him. There’s a story that he wore a wire, and even at that — and the media got all atwitter about that when they learned that Papadopoulos wore a wire. But they got nothing out of it, apparently. Now, look, there are still, I’m told, two more sealed indictments. (sigh) I’m looking at five seconds here so I’m not gonna start trying to make a point, but hang on after the break. Keep listening and I’ll close the loop on this.
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RUSH: Now, what I was gonna say — again, I hate being redundant, but I mentioned this in the first hour and not since, and some people may missed it. Normally prosecutors open up with everything they’ve got. If they’ve got it, they open up with everything they’ve got. You shape the jury pool. You tell the guys you’re coming after you’ve got ’em. I gave the example of Andy McCarthy, the Blind Sheikh. He turned one of the sheikh’s coconspirators, got the guy to plead guilty and allocute before the judge and jury.
He explained everything. He explained who the sheikh was, what their targets were, who their assassination targets were, what bridges and tunnels they were gonna hit. He gave up everything; 90% the prosecution’s case was made by one of the defendants in the first week of the trial. And it is the objective of every prosecutor… You know, you don’t start small to sandbag or lull people to sleep. So if you apply that philosophy to Mueller, if he opened with the best he’s got, he’s got nothing. He opened with Manafort with no ties to the Trump campaign in the indictment. No ties to Russia in the Trump campaign. No ties to anything beyond 2014 or ’15.
The second guy, Papadopoulos — who even wore a wire — is not even pleading guilty to collusion. They can’t ’cause there’s no crime. They didn’t even get his guy on conspiracy to conclude. They got this guy on a process crime, lying to investigators. So if you look at it, the standard behavior mode of prosecutors to secure a win, you open up with everything you got. You know, there’s no longer surprise witnesses permitted. You have to, in discovery, tell the defense the witnesses you have. You have to give them the witness list.
So you can’t do what Democrats in politics do and sandbag and save everything for a, quote, unquote, “October Surprise.” In court, you launch. Now, if Mueller is trying the case in the media, well, that could change the equation. If Mueller wants to lull everybody to sleep by making ’em think this is the best we’ve got, then that could explain why he opens with nothing here. On the other hand, if Mueller actually wants to end up in court someday and actually wants to get a conviction of some people that would lead to the impeachment of Trump, then he opened with nothing.
We just don’t know.
Now, in Mueller’s case, you know, impeachment is a political procedure. This “high crimes and misdemeanors stuff.” You can’t impeach a president until there is the political will in the country to do it. The Republicans in 1998 learned this. They tried to impeach Clinton, but the public didn’t want Clinton impeached even though they had the goods. He lied under oath, he had done the Lewinsky dirty dancing. He’d done all that stuff. As Obama’s preacher Reverend Wright said, “He was riiiiding dirty,” but it wasn’t enough to get him impeached. (interruption)
Well, he did. That’s what Jeremiah Wright said, “Bill was riiiiding dirty!” That was how he described the Lewinsky affair. “Mommy! Mommy! Why’d Mr. Limbaugh say ‘riding dirty’?” “Don’t worry, Little Johnny. It just means that his car needed to be washed.” “Oh, okay.” So if Mueller is doing this for political reasons — if Mueller has a blockbuster that he’s holding to come out later — then we just don’t know. But based on what we do know and the fact that there has yet to be any evidence of collusion Trump and Russia?
And given that’s what this is ostensibly about? And now that we know that Hillary and the DNC bought and paid for and practically wrote the Trump dossier, then a logical conclusion would be Mueller — if this is the best he’s got — doesn’t have anything. Again, let’s play J. Christian Adams, that sound bite. Let me find it here. It is audio sound bite number… I’ve already put it at the bottom. It’s sound bite number 9. Here, this will help explain it one more time. We’ll play Dershowitz after this, number 10. So here’s J. Christian Adams…
ADAMS: It’s striking how these are charges from things that happened a long time ago, have nothing to do with Russia. All through the indictment you have these unnecessary allusions to Russia that have nothing to do with laundering Ukrainian money. It all has to do with keeping the Russia story alive by dribbling these little hints there’s something more nefarious than rank money laundering going on. So I think that’s the problem with the team that Mueller has assembled. There’s been plenty of reporting about who these lawyers are, and it’s really time to examine whether or not this investigation’s going anywhere, ’cause this is a terribly weak debut.
RUSH: And that’s right: “a terribly weak debut.” But again, if he’s trying this case in the media and setting everybody up for what he thinks he has is a blockbuster yet to come, we won’t know. Now, CNN right now has this graphic on screen: “Trump Seethes over Russia Indictments.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders is doing the White House briefing. Trump seethes! They’re painting a picture Trump in the White House that he’s told everybody to leave him alone and he’s just sitting there seething. This is because the chief of staff, General Kelly, said, “Yeah, Trump’s bothered by this.”
But I don’t believe Trump has told everybody to get out room and he’s sitting there steaming over things. This is no different than when they reported Trump’s wandering the White House in his underwear talking to portraits of previous presidents seeking guidance. They want to make it look like he’s unhinged, delusional, barely hanging on to sanity — and they’re trying to do it here again. They’re trying to make it look like these Russia indictments are… I guarantee, Trump’s in the White House laughing at these indictments. There’s nothing to them, folks.
If Trump is seething over this stuff, somebody needs to grab him and shake him by the shoulders real quick, because there’s nothing to seethe over here. What there is to seethe over is the whole process. What there is to be livid about is this transparently phony effort made up of phony evidence and phony allegations and phony dossiers and phony this and phony that to get the guy thrown out of office. Seething over that? Yeah. But not over these indictments. These indictments actually, on balance, are beneficial.
They’re helpful to Trump. They don’t indict him. They don’t implicate him in anything, other than this, you know, this Papadopoulos — this groupie hanger-on — and Manafort, who been indicted here for nothing that he did with the Trump campaign. Here’s Dershowitz. This was last night on Fox. Question: “You said today you think Manafort’s domino number one, this is the first domino, these indictments of Manafort, domino number one. What do you mean by that, Professor?”
DERSHOWITZ: They never would have the indicted him for money laundering or tax evasion if he weren’t somebody who they thought could turn on Trump. This is dominos. You knock down the first domino; that knocks down the second domino. Ultimately, what Mueller is aiming for is the big domino in the Oval Office. I don’t think they’re gonna get him. I don’t think they have anything, ’cause collusion, even if it were to be established, isn’t a crime! You have to find something that actually violates the federal criminal statute. I don’t think they’re even close to that.
RUSH: He’s right. There’s no… Even if Trump did collude, even if Trump called Putin, no collusion. It has to be a conspiracy to break a law, and they don’t have that. And Trump didn’t call Putin. It’s a bad example. I shouldn’t have used it. It has not happened. There’s no evidence for it whatsoever, and Professor Dershowitz here is right on the money. Now, here’s Kelly. Grab sound bite number 13. This is chiefs of staff. This is last night on Fox. The chief of staff is admitting here that this whole investigation is distracting to Trump but not that Trump’s sitting in there seething about anything.
KELLY: Yeah, and it should wrap up soon. I mean, it would seem that they’re towards the end of the witness pile. I don’t know how much longer it could possibly go on, but we’re in great hopes that it wraps up. It is very distracting to the president, as it would be to any citizen, to be investigated of something while at the same time trying to carry the weight of being president of the United States. He and I have, as you might imagine, multiple conversations a day. Generally, in the morning when we first talk it’ll be about these kind of things, just general conversation before we get down to business, but it is very distracting.
RUSH: That’s a good point, that whether there is anything to the investigation or not, it can result in hampering a presidency. This is, I think, another objective here of this investigation. All of this, folks, in a generic sense is aimed at ruining Donald Trump. However they can get it done. This is the insiders of the establishment grabbing every weapon they have and loading it with all the ammo they’ve got and aiming it at one guy. In their world, this kind of invasion of their turf will not stand.
“Some derelict real estate developer from New York who lives in a tawdry, gold-plated building is not gonna come in here and undo 75 years of great work we’ve engaged in to chop the U.S. down to size so it’s being no more important other nation of the world. We’re not gonna stand for it!” That’s what’s going on, and they’re sending a message to any other outsider like Trump who may be getting dreams of grandeur about replicating what Trump has done himself.
Amy Campanelli (Rich Hein, Sun-Times).
This is most likely just an overture. Mueller and his gang of lefty 
