{"id":213907,"date":"2016-07-05T16:14:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/don_t_be_depressed_over_hillary_clinton_skating_on_the_email_scandal_it_s_now_up_to_trump_and_the_gop_to_make_the_case\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:05:12","slug":"don_t_be_depressed_over_hillary_clinton_skating_on_the_email_scandal_it_s_now_up_to_trump_and_the_gop_to_make_the_case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/05\/don_t_be_depressed_over_hillary_clinton_skating_on_the_email_scandal_it_s_now_up_to_trump_and_the_gop_to_make_the_case\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Depressed Over Hillary Clinton Skating on the Email Scandal: It\u2019s Now Up to Trump and the GOP to Make the Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: I hope none of you are depressed.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure a lot of you are.\u00a0 I told you that we were being played throughout this whole thing<\/a>.\u00a0 I never wavered, even when Comey started today.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got some sound bites coming up of the FBI director, James Comey.\u00a0 When he started out, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some of you, “Oh, my God, oh, my God, he\u2019s gonna lower the boom!”<\/p>\n

And I knew throughout the whole thing, there\u2019s no way that Barack Hussein O is gonna put Hillary on Air Force One today, fly to a campaign event, if the FBI director is going to recommend she be indicted.\u00a0 It just wasn\u2019t gonna happen.\u00a0 And then, furthermore, this puts in perspective now that apparently off-the-cuff, surprise meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch.\u00a0 Well, man, oh, man, isn\u2019t it amazing how that worked out.<\/p>\n

<\/a>So they have the meeting, it\u2019s discovered by a lone media outlet, the ABC affiliate in Phoenix. It blows up just like that lone picture of the Clintons dancing on the beach three weeks before the Lewinsky story appeared on Drudge. Everybody got all hopped up. And just like that one picture appeared and Mike McCurry in the White House started bellyaching about it, nobody had seen it, it\u2019s pre-internet, front page of the LA Times.\u00a0 What picture?<\/p>\n

So they got the picture out everywhere.\u00a0 And then three weeks later here comes the Lewinsky story on Drudge. It had been spiked by Newsweek.\u00a0 Here we go.\u00a0 So you have the one media outlet in Phoenix that finds out Clinton\u2019s on the plane with Lynch.\u00a0 Then it blows up and everybody finds out about it and all hell breaks loose.<\/p>\n

Lynch is acting all embarrassed. (imitating Lynch) “You know what? I tell you what I\u2019m gonna do. I\u2019m gonna back out of this. I am going to accept the recommendation of the FBI and the career prosecutors at the Department of Justice.”\u00a0 Isn\u2019t she looking like a champion today to the people that matter.\u00a0 She backs out.<\/p>\n

Do you think anybody knew what was coming down the pike?\u00a0 I mean, Comey said nobody knew, he hadn\u2019t talked to anybody.\u00a0 If you want to be depressed, look, I understand it.\u00a0 The thing to be really disappointed about is the sad reality that just one institution after another that we used to be able to count on, that we thought was reliable, they all seem to be crumbling right before our very eyes.<\/p>\n

So now, where we are with this, I mean, we can parse Comey, we can go through it, andwe will today just for the fun of it.\u00a0 ‘Cause you know what I thought I was listening to today?\u00a0 I told Mr. Snerdley, I said, “James Comey\u2019s press conference today reminded me of Joe Biden\u2019s announcement saying he wasn\u2019t running.”\u00a0 Remember that?<\/p>\n

Biden goes out and announces he\u2019s not running, but if you listen to the speech all throughout the speech you got the impression he was gonna run, because it laid out an agenda, it detailed what problems exist and how he was gonna solve them.\u00a0 I mean, it was the speech of somebody that was gonna run, and at the end of it he said he\u2019s not going to.\u00a0 I had the same feeling today watching Comey.<\/p>\n

He lays out all the violations. He lays out all the irregularities. He lays out all the problems, and there are a lot of people in jail for doing exactly what he\u2019s exonerated Hillary Clinton for today.\u00a0 Where does Petraeus go to get his reputation back?\u00a0 I mean, they charged him with a felony until he settled for something far less than this.<\/p>\n

Comey admits that it\u2019s likely that hostile adversaries have seen detailed data from her servers, that she had more than one.\u00a0 He\u2019s going through all this and then says (paraphrasing), “but there\u2019s nothing to see here.\u00a0 There\u2019s not a reasonable prosecutor out there that would make this case, that would bring these charges.”\u00a0 I said, “Man, this is just like the Biden speech for what it\u2019s worth.”\u00a0 The Clintons pulled a trick.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another thing.\u00a0 How many of you got all excited when you found out that Cheryl Mills had been brought in there once again for another interview and then took the fifth all these times?\u00a0 Do you know what the Clintons did with that?\u00a0 It\u2019s finally been uncovered.\u00a0 This whole thing started in 2013.\u00a0 Hillary hired a lot of her assistants as her lawyer and then claimed privilege so that they would not have to answer any questions about what went on in her office, and Cheryl Mills is one of those examples.<\/p>\n

She hires Cheryl Mills, quote, unquote, as a lawyer, and Mills thus can\u2019t testify because lawyer-client privilege, even though Mills was hired after all of this had happened.\u00a0 Comey didn\u2019t talk about any of that.<\/p>\n

So where we are now is that it\u2019s gonna be up to Trump and the Republicans to make the case, since the DOJ is not.\u00a0 I mean, there\u2019s no way that the DOJ is gonna bring charges when the FBI director doesn\u2019t suggest doing so, when there\u2019s no recommendation.<\/p>\n

Now, there is a parallel investigation Comey didn\u2019t talk about and that\u2019s into the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.\u00a0 That was another aspect of the Clinton-Lynch meeting that people were saying, “Wait a minute now, he\u2019s under investigation, too, what the heck\u2019s going on?”\u00a0 Same thing, folks.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t expect anything to come of that, like nothing was gonna ever come of this.\u00a0 I can\u2019t tell you the number of times, and I\u2019m sure it happened to you, too, no matter where you go people ask you, “Do you think Hillary\u2019s gonna be indicted?” A lot of people thought, “I think they\u2019re gonna get her. This is serious stuff. This is playing with fire. This is national security. It\u2019s top secret information.”<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s like every other time. They get all hopped up, all anticipatory, all thinking this is gonna be the time, this is gonna be it.”\u00a0 And I think the Clintons actually have a playbook strategy.\u00a0 I think one of the things they relish doing is using instances like this to get people on our side all hopped up and eager and excited, thinking that there\u2019s gonna be an actual, in this case indictment or some form of punishment, and they always skate, and people get deflated and depressed and they throw their hands up and despair and say, “I\u2019m through with it. I\u2019m finished. I don\u2019t care. It doesn\u2019t matter what I do. It doesn\u2019t matter how I vote. They\u2019re gonna win no matter what we do,” blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s their objective, is to dispirit you, depress you, and to have you thinking there\u2019s nothing that can be done to beat them.\u00a0 They just have an answer or a way to slither out of virtually everything.\u00a0 But I do think we were played.\u00a0 I spent a lot of time on Friday detailing why.\u00a0 And it has come to pass.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go through some of the things here that Comey said.\u00a0 There is evidence that they were extremely careless.\u00a0 “No evidence of intent to violate law, but evidence of carelessness with classified material.”\u00a0 I always thought that intent was irrelevant.\u00a0 “Officer, I didn\u2019t intend to speed.\u00a0 I just wasn\u2019t paying attention.”\u00a0 Oh, really?\u00a0 Okay, you weren\u2019t trying.\u00a0 Well, then forget that I stopped you.<\/p>\n