{"id":213927,"date":"2016-07-07T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/07\/07\/comey_twists_into_pretzels_to_avoid_a_critical_sound_bite_of_hillary_or_obama_as_race_and_gender_silence_opposition\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:14:30","slug":"comey_twists_into_pretzels_to_avoid_a_critical_sound_bite_of_hillary_or_obama_as_race_and_gender_silence_opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/07\/07\/comey_twists_into_pretzels_to_avoid_a_critical_sound_bite_of_hillary_or_obama_as_race_and_gender_silence_opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Comey Twists into Pretzels to Avoid a Critical Sound Bite of Hillary or Obama, as Race and Gender Silence Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/37\/72163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<section>RUSH: It\u2019s fascinating, literally fascinating watching the hearing going on right now. The committee in House Republicans and Democrats, conducting a hearing here with the FBI director, James Comey, over how he arrived at his decision that no reasonable prosecutor would bring the case against Hillary Clinton.You know what, folks?\u00a0 I was playing golf yesterday afternoon after the program, and this is not the first time this question\u2019s been asked of me, but it got me to thinking.\u00a0The question basically was this:\u00a0 &#8220;What does Obama have on all these people that makes them do what he wants them to do?&#8221;\u00a0 Meaning the old story about the Clintons and they had their 900 FBI files and were able to blackmail people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124558\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Comey-Truth-A2.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/>What does Obama have on Comey?\u00a0 What in the world would make Comey switch and do a 180 on a dime from the guy he really is?\u00a0 And the same with John Roberts.\u00a0 The question was asked about Roberts back during the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare when Roberts basically rewrote it from the bench to make it constitutional.\u00a0 My God, what does Obama have on these people?<\/p>\n<p>It finally hit me that that question comes up a lot, and I reject it.\u00a0 It\u2019s become too pat a question.\u00a0 It\u2019s asked too often.\u00a0 What is that old saying, Occam\u2019s razor.\u00a0 Whatever is going on, the simplest explanation is probably the explanation.\u00a0 Let me tell you what I think is going on.\u00a0 And I\u2019m sure many of you are gonna think this is simplistic and maybe even simpleton type.\u00a0 But like everybody else, I\u2019m trying to explain it.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we\u2019re gonna get to the details.<\/p>\n<p>Comey has been pretzeling himself every which way here to avoid uttering a sound bite negative to Hillary.\u00a0 But some of the Republicans have done a bang-up job today in this hearing.\u00a0 You\u2019ll hear coming up in a moment in the sound bites.\u00a0 And the Democrats are predictable, led by Elijah Cummings of the Congressional Black Caucasians, Elijah Cummings: We really don\u2019t know why you\u2019re here.\u00a0 We really respect the job you do.<\/p>\n<p>Even Lacy Clay from Missouri, congressman from Missouri went so far as to say (paraphrasing), &#8220;I know you and your agents came to Ferguson, Missouri, to investigate what happened there, and I just want to tell the world here that your agents and your organization were above and beyond reproach.&#8221;\u00a0 I\u2019m making up words. I\u2019m paraphrasing \u2019cause I don\u2019t know exactly what he said, but it was essentially, &#8220;You\u2019re the greatest guy. You\u2019re the greatest investigator. You got down and into it. We got no problem with you whatsoever here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O0vHZqVn-io\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s predictable the way these things are gonna go.\u00a0 The Democrats lamenting the sad fact that Comey even has to come up here and explain himself with the Republicans trying to get to the bottom of it.\u00a0 One of the things that the Republicans keep doing in asking their questions is: &#8220;Would a normal person, would an average person in the same situation,&#8221; blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.\u00a0 &#8220;Well, how about if this situation applied to a normal citizen or an average citizen?&#8221;\u00a0 And that\u2019s not who we\u2019re talking about here.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not talking about an average citizen; we\u2019re not talking about a normal citizen and what an average citizen would know as it goes to intent or prior knowledge or gross negligence, and we\u2019re not talking about a normal person.\u00a0 Clearly we\u2019re talking about Hillary Clinton, who is very well versed.\u00a0 I think Trey Gowdy said it better than anybody today.\u00a0 Trey Gowdy is saying that Hillary was not extremely careless.\u00a0 She was extremely careful. That she had a well-thought-out plan that would allow her to do this and skirt the edges of the law and maybe break it, that she was not careless.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re presenting her as some bumbling nerd &#8212; no, not a nerd &#8212; she\u2019s some bumbling person that doesn\u2019t understand computers. She doesn\u2019t understand the operation of computers. She doesn\u2019t know what servers are. She doesn\u2019t know any of the computer terminology.\u00a0 She just wanted to be able to send and receive email and not have everybody see it.\u00a0 That\u2019s BS.\u00a0 That\u2019s how they\u2019re trying to portray her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2016\/07\/06\/was_the_fix_in_for_hillary_clinton_in_the_email_scandal_that_exposed_this_nation_to_such_great_risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124562\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HillaryEmailsSEE.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>I find it fascinating. Here\u2019s the smartest woman in the world one day, yet today she\u2019s a neophyte. Today she doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s doing. Today she\u2019s innocently wandering aimlessly through her job as secretary of state being unfortunately caught up in all these conflicting statutes and laws.\u00a0 Poor Mrs. Clinton, she\u2019s trying her best but she just doesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s doing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a crock.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m gonna tell you this, too.\u00a0 On social media, she\u2019s not getting away with this.\u00a0 (interruption) What do you mean, she\u2019s not sophisticated?\u00a0 She\u2019s not sophisticated.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t have a sophisticated understanding.\u00a0 She couldn\u2019t have set it up on her own.\u00a0 In fact, Comey said today it wasn\u2019t even her system, it was her husband\u2019s.\u00a0 Yeah, it was Bill\u2019s server in the basement there and she said (imitating Hillary), &#8220;Hey, you got a server?\u00a0 Cool.\u00a0 You know what?\u00a0 I want to put my stuff on your server.&#8221;\u00a0 And so they went and brought a guy in to do it and she didn\u2019t know, she didn\u2019t know.\u00a0 That\u2019s how she didn\u2019t have intent.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t know about you, folks, but it doesn\u2019t wash with me that the smartest woman in the world doesn\u2019t know anything.\u00a0 But isn\u2019t it convenient how often it is said that she\u2019s some bumbling idiot wandering aimlessly through some confusing world.\u00a0 She knew how to delete them.\u00a0 She knew how to get \u2019em off the server.\u00a0 She knew how to move servers to different locations.\u00a0 Of course she knew all that stuff.\u00a0 Gowdy is right; she was being careful, not careless.\u00a0 So we will delve into this in greater detail.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll explain my theory here to you.\u00a0 Admittedly it\u2019s gonna sound simplistic to many of you who think there has to be something deep and dark to explain this.\u00a0 And I think we can explain all of this in three words:\u00a0 race, media, history.\u00a0 Race, media, and history explain this.\u00a0 And what I mean by that is this.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t anyone, there isn\u2019t anyone in government, there isn\u2019t anyone on Capitol Hill, there isn\u2019t anybody in the Drive-By Media who wants to be the person who will be recorded in history and thus always known in history and forever attacked in the media. No one wants to be the one who denied the first African-American president his agenda or his choices.<\/p>\n<p>John Roberts, I think, pretty much said: I\u2019m not gonna sit here and be the guy that presides over a decision here that denies the first Africa &#8212; well, the president.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t say first African.\u00a0 &#8212; the president such a major, major please of legislation that was duly passed by the elected representatives of the people. He didn\u2019t want to go anywhere near it.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody to this day, after almost seven and a half years, nobody lifts a finger to stop Barack Obama.\u00a0 Nobody lifts a finger to deny Barack Obama.\u00a0 Nobody lifts a finger to oppose Obama on the serious agenda items that are transforming this nation and are resulting in the implementation of his real agenda.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think James Comey wanted to be the guy noted forever in history and attacked as such.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think Comey wanted to be the guy known for torpedoing the candidacy of the first woman nominated by her party to seek the presidency of the United States.\u00a0 So race, slash, gender, media, history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124560\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ObamaIRSCampaignDonors.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/>Look at the IRS scandals.\u00a0 Comey was running the FBI during all of that and nobody paid a price for any of that, either, because that\u2019s still Obama.\u00a0 Nobody wants to go anywhere near it.\u00a0 Well, the evidence is abundant.\u00a0 It is everywhere that race has paralyzed all serious opposition and policy to Barack Obama.\u00a0 You know as well as I do that if it were anybody but Obama and Hillary Clinton, the exact opposite would be happening here.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ll tell you this.\u00a0 When Obama is gone, when he\u2019s no longer in the White House, and particularly if the Republicans win the White House, if it\u2019s Trump, you watch how quickly our laws once again revert to their former status and importance.\u00a0 The media and the Democrats will easily hold Donald Trump accountable to the law for his agenda and do everything they can to stop it, everything they can to railroad it, everything they can to torpedo it.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to, my gosh, what kind of secret information do they have on Comey that would turn him into this quivering mess that will not proceed, that question is asked so much and offered up so often as an explanation for the inexplicable, and I think it\u2019s not that complicated.\u00a0 I think if you\u2019re doubting me &#8212; I understand if you might, \u2019cause it does sound simplistic, but the evidence is abundant. And particularly if you live in Washington, and if you\u2019re already an accredited member of the establishment, you want to hold on to that more than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>You know how the media is. You know you don\u2019t want to end up being pilloried. You know you don\u2019t want to be the first in history, with all the race problems existing in the country, you don\u2019t want to be the one guy noted forever for as long as history is written that ends up derailing or causing there to be a smear or black mark or what have you, on the Obama administration or Hillary Clinton as the first female.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124561\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HillaryPower.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/>And, by the way, the opposition to the Clintons predates even this.\u00a0 If you have other ideas, I mean, have at it.\u00a0 It could be a combination of things, but I think these are all real and relevant factors, because I\u2019ve just seen too much evidence of it for the past seven and a half years.\u00a0 There hasn\u2019t been any serious opposition to Obama and what he wants to do anywhere.\u00a0 There haven\u2019t been a whole lot of people even stand up in Washington who are part of the official political elite and establishment.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have anybody even standing up and criticizing Obama.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got some members of Congress who do who are relatively new arrivals and so forth, freshman second year, second term, what have you. But for the people that make things happen, the people that run the FBI, the people that run the State Department.\u00a0 And of course over at Justice they\u2019re gonna circle the wagons for their guy anyway because they\u2019re circling the wagons for themselves.\u00a0 And it boils down to, especially the Hillary situation, I mean, Comey works for who?\u00a0 He works for the president. He\u2019s the FBI director, supposed independence, yeah.\u00a0 But it was never gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I did the monologue last Friday we\u2019re being played.\u00a0 I never for a moment believed that the Barack Obama administration would actually engage in action that would result in Hillary Clinton not being the presidential nominee of that party.\u00a0 They\u2019re just not gonna do something that would damage her because they can\u2019t limit the damage to her, the damage to themselves.\u00a0 You know, if they get Hillary on this, how many other people have skated on this?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124567\" class=\"img_right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HillaryServerSHORT.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>In fact, there\u2019s a story here, US News &amp; World Report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2016-07-06\/attorneys-intend-to-ask-for-the-clinton-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Attorneys Intend to Ask for &#8216;the Clinton Deal\u2019<\/a> &#8212; Attorneys for people who allegedly mishandled classified information say the outcome of the FBI\u2019s investigation into Hillary Clinton could be good news for their clients. &#8230; Mark Zaid, a defense attorney for national security whistleblowers and people accused of mishandling secrets, says he plans to ask for &#8216;the Clinton deal\u2019 in the future. And Zaid says he probably can get it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She didn\u2019t know. She didn\u2019t intend to.&#8221; But they have clearly demonstrated, the Republicans on this committee have demonstrated that Hillary Clinton lied.\u00a0 Now, Comey won\u2019t admit that she lied to the FBI, but he can\u2019t deny that she may have lied to Congress.\u00a0 But there\u2019s another aspect of this, folks, and you know me.\u00a0 I have learned by experience to temper my expectations, and I just have a sense that where maybe Hillary Clinton skated legally, I\u2019m not so sure she is skating with the public, as the Clintons always have in the past.<\/p>\n<p>There are too many people who use email who understand it, who are not falling for her excuses.\u00a0 They\u2019re not being fooled by her lies.\u00a0 And she\u2019s not that liked anyway.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t start out with a great likability quotient.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t have this deep connection and bond with a large group of her supporters that will circle the wagons and defend her for anything.<\/p>\n<p>So I think she\u2019s more vulnerable than a Clinton has ever been in the past 25 years.\u00a0 She may not be facing any sanction from the legal system, but I\u2019m not so sure in the court of public opinion that she\u2019s skating.\u00a0 We\u2019ll just have to see as things unfold.<\/p>\n<p>Now a brief time-out.\u00a0 We\u2019ll come back and let you hear some of the back-and-forth at this hearing that occurred this morning.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s just go to the audio sound bites, get started here on the hearing.\u00a0 By the way, before I do that I need to probably tell you one thing.\u00a0 Andy McCarthy has weighed in.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2016\/07\/06\/rush_interviews_former_federal_prosecutor_andy_mccarthy_on_the_fbi_investigation_into_mrs_clinton_s_email_scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We had him on the program yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0 He\u2019s well versed in these matters, as you know by now, and he posted a piece at National Review Online: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/437560\/fbi-director-comeys-suggestion-congresss-gross-negligence-statute-invalid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;FBI Director Comey\u2019s Suggestion that Congress\u2019s Gross Negligence Statute Is Invalid.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said, okay, now I understand it.\u00a0 &#8220;Director Comey\u2019s explanation is now clear, though he did not lay it out in his report earlier this week.&#8221; He said Comey said some other stuff today in his opening statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The statute criminalizing gross negligence in mishandling classified information is invalid because it does not require proof of intent to improperly transmit classified information to places it is not supposed to be or to people not authorized to have it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124568\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FBIComey-BW-1.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/>&#8220;The director claims that the statute has only been used once since its enactment in 1917, and therefore its invocation as written in Mrs. Clinton\u2019s case would be suspect. He implies that the only way to save the statute is for the Justice Department to do what prosecutors routinely tell judges that they are not permitted to do: rewrite the statute &#8212; in this instance, to add a higher mens rea proof requirement. With due respect, this argument is very unconvincing, for at least two reasons,&#8221; and goes on to say on so.<\/p>\n<p>But the point of this is that Comey claims that the gross negligence statute didn\u2019t come into play here and he could have used it because she was grossly negligent, he didn\u2019t use it, it\u2019s invalid because it didn\u2019t require proof of intent. So he\u2019s continuing to hang his hat on the fact that she didn\u2019t intend to do any of this. And he made the point today that you can\u2019t find a case where somebody has been imprisoned absent their intent to traffic.\u00a0 As I watched that, I thought, well, that isn\u2019t true.\u00a0 But what do I know.\u00a0 He\u2019s the FBI director.\u00a0 And he\u2019s also former deputy attorney general.\u00a0 So he\u2019s gotta know more than I do.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems to me I\u2019ve read about a sailor who inadvertently took pictures of a nuclear reactor on a sub to send back and show mom and dad, and he\u2019s in jail because that\u2019s classified, a nuclear reactor.\u00a0 You can\u2019t do it.\u00a0 And there clearly was no intent on the part of that sailor to send classified information to our enemies.\u00a0 He was just sending a picture home to mom or dad or some friends or whatever, if I recall right.\u00a0 Comey said you can\u2019t find a case where somebody has been put in jail or been convicted or been charged without the necessary intent.\u00a0 I thought, it seems to me there\u2019s a couple of them, and they\u2019ve been written about recently.<\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, that\u2019s that.\u00a0 Here is the first sound bite of Comey and his interchange here with Jason Chaffetz, who is the committee chairman.\u00a0 They were trying to get to the nub of this right off the bat.\u00a0 Chaffetz\u2019s question to Comey: &#8220;Did Hillary Clinton lie?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2vyE4QWk1o\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 To the FBI?\u00a0 We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>CHAFFETZ:\u00a0 Did she lie to the public?<\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 That\u2019s a question I\u2019m not qualified to answer.\u00a0 I can speak about what she said to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>CHAFFETZ:\u00a0 Did Hillary Clinton lie under oath?<\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 Not to the FBI, not in a case we\u2019re working.<\/p>\n<p>CHAFFETZ:\u00a0 Did you review the documents where Congressman Jim Jordan asked her specifically, and she said, quote, &#8220;There was nothing marked classified on my emails either sent or received,&#8221; end quote?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124570\" class=\"img_right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FBLComey_large.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>COMEY:\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember reviewing that particular testimony.\u00a0 I\u2019m aware of that being said, though.<\/p>\n<p>CHAFFETZ:\u00a0 Did the FBI investigate her statements under oath on this topic?<\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 Not to my knowledge, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been a referral from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>CHAFFETZ:\u00a0 Do you need a referral from Congress to investigate her statements under oath?<\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 Sure do.<\/p>\n<p>CHAFFETZ:\u00a0 You\u2019ll have one.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have one in the next few hours.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 &#8220;You\u2019ll have one in a few hours.&#8221;\u00a0 Next up is Comey making Chaffetz\u2019s point.\u00a0 Chaffetz then says, &#8220;The FBI does background checks.\u00a0 If Hillary Clinton applied for the job at the FBI, would the FBI give Hillary Clinton a security clearance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to answer a hypothetical.\u00a0 The FBI has a robust process in which we adjudicate the suitability of people for employment in the Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>CHAFFETZ:\u00a0 Given the fact pattern you laid out less than 48 hours ago, would a person who had dealt with classified information like that, would that person be granted a security clearance at the FBI?<\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 It would be a very important consideration in a suitability determination.<\/p>\n<p>CHAFFETZ:\u00a0 You\u2019re kind of making my point, Director, the point being, \u2019cause I injected the word &#8220;Hillary Clinton&#8221; you gave me a different answer.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 See, this is what I meant when I told you earlier that Comey is bending over backwards, he\u2019s pretzeling himself here, if you will, to avoid creating an anti-Hillary Clinton sound bite.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I want to go back to my original theory here.\u00a0 I was asked on the golf course yesterday, I get asked this question all the time, &#8220;What does Obama have on these guys?\u00a0 What does Hillary have on these guys?\u00a0 What do they have on John Roberts?&#8221;\u00a0 I don\u2019t think that\u2019s it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think that\u2019s it at all.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s race, slash, gender, history, and media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124569\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HillaryemailsSecurity-Risk-2B.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/>I just don\u2019t think Jim Comey wants to be noted in history books for the next 2,000 years, and you know this is how it would go down, if Comey had recommended she be charged, do you know what they\u2019d be doing to him today?\u00a0 You know what would have happened to him in the media?\u00a0 You might say, &#8220;Well, hey, he signed up, he knows, you gotta be able to take these hits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Folks, I understand that sentiment, and it may describe you.\u00a0 You may think that that\u2019s what you would do.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t see anybody doing it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see anybody trying to stop Obama\u2019s agenda, not seriously.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t see anybody trying to stand in the way of Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 Bernie Sanders is the closest we got to it, and Obama in 2008, and Obama had cover because race counts for more than gender when you start talking politically correct things in American politics today.<\/p>\n<p>So Obama was never gonna be guilty of denying Hillary Clinton the quest to become the first female president because he was on the way to becoming even more historical.\u00a0 But can you imagine what they\u2019d write about James Comey?\u00a0 They wouldn\u2019t say the FBI.\u00a0 They wouldn\u2019t say the Department of Justice.\u00a0 James Comey, as director of the FBI.\u00a0 And can you imagine what they would accuse him of?<\/p>\n<p>You know what left would be doing?\u00a0 &#8220;Who did he collude with on the Republican side?\u00a0 What did they promise Comey?\u00a0 What did the Republicans promise Comey?\u00a0 Did they promise him a Supreme Court nomination?\u00a0 Did they promise Comey the VP slot?&#8221;\u00a0 If he\u2019d gone after Hillary, if he\u2019d recommended charges, and then by the time the Drive-Bys start writing the immediate history and then your typical left-wing historians start writing long-term history, can you imagine how Comey would be treated by them?<\/p>\n<p>And to say that he\u2019s not aware of that, that\u2019s not true.\u00a0 To say that, &#8220;Come on, Rush, these people are adults.\u00a0 They take the heat.\u00a0 That\u2019s what this is all about.&#8221;\u00a0 That\u2019s what you think.\u00a0 That\u2019s what you would think they\u2019d do.\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t happen, does it?\u00a0 In every one of these seemingly slam dunk incidents, be it John Roberts at the Supreme Court with a clearly unconstitutional Obamacare, and everybody under the sun knows that Hillary Clinton was trafficking in classified information and violating the law doing it.\u00a0 Everybody knows it.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that some people think she should get away with it.\u00a0 They are Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>There are some people who think she shouldn\u2019t be held accountable for it because it\u2019s the Republicans trying to nail her.\u00a0 But nobody denies that what she did here is things they couldn\u2019t get away with.\u00a0 Everybody knows this.\u00a0 And yet nobody wants to take the action that would force her to face accountability before the law, do they?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, who does Hillary know?\u00a0 What do they know about Comey?\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 All there has to be is a reasonable fear.\u00a0 If you\u2019re talking about the Clintons and you\u2019re in Washington, you have a 25-year history of those people getting away with everything.\u00a0 You have a 25-year history of those people successfully punishing their political enemies.\u00a0 You see what they did to Ken Starr.\u00a0 You see what they have done to anybody that\u2019s tried to come after them.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a stretch here.\u00a0 And the fact that Comey was bending to avoid creating what would end up being a sound bite in a political add that would be run by the Republicans is just more evidence for me, for my simplistic theory on all of this.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a break.\u00a0 We\u2019ll get into Trey Gowdy next.\u00a0 Gowdy was good, and this is what he does.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 And here we go.\u00a0 This is Trey Gowdy now.\u00a0 Again, Gowdy is under the impression that we all know that Hillary Clinton conspired to break numerous laws.\u00a0 And this is not the first time, by the way, this email business, her server.\u00a0 I mean, the intent&#8230; Comey was even asked (paraphrased exchange), &#8220;Didn\u2019t you find any intent in her having an off-site server?\u00a0 Didn\u2019t you find any intent in her setting up a server off site?\u00a0 Didn\u2019t you find any intent?\u00a0 And she lied about only having one device!&#8221; He said, &#8220;Well, no.\u00a0 I found convenience.\u00a0 She just wanted a more convenient setup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She found out that her husband had a server in the basement of their home and decided to use that.&#8221;\u00a0 But Trey Gowdy, his point was that Hillary Clinton\u2019s not been careless at all, that she has been extremely careful.\u00a0 So we are up to audio sound bite number four.\u00a0 And Gowdy starts out by saying, &#8220;Look, I\u2019m gonna ask you to put on your old hat.&#8221;\u00a0 Meaning: I want to take you back to where you\u2019re in the Department of Justice &#8212; you\u2019re not the FBI director &#8212; and you were a prosecutor.\u00a0 &#8220;False exculpatory statements, they are used for what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 Either for the substantive prosecution or for evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>GOWDY:\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 Intent and consciousness of guilt, right?\u00a0 Is that right?<\/p>\n<p>COMEY:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n<p>GOWDY:\u00a0 Consciousness of guilt and intent.\u00a0 In your old job, you would prove intent, as you just referenced, by showing the jury evidence of a complex scheme that was designed for the very purpose of concealing the public record. And you would be arguing in addition to concealment, the destruction that you and I just talked about or certainly the failure to preserve.\u00a0 You would argue all of that under the heading of &#8220;intent.&#8221;\u00a0 You would also be arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme, when it started, when it ended, and the number of emails whether they were originally classified or up-classified. You would argue all of that under the heading of intent?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 So Gowdy is walking everybody through this. Look, Comey\u2019s answer to this was to not acknowledge any of this.\u00a0 What Gowdy is doing, his audience is not Comey.\u00a0 His audience is us.\u00a0 His audience is the American people.\u00a0 His audience is social media.\u00a0 His audience is the Drive-By Media. It\u2019s anybody who wants to pick this up because this is really good what he did here.\u00a0 Because Comey says there wasn\u2019t intent; you can\u2019t find any intent.\u00a0 And Gowdy walks him through how, in his old job as a prosecutor, he could not have missed intent.<\/p>\n<p>He would show the jury evidence of a complex scheme designed for the very purpose of concealing the public record.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the server in her basement is.\u00a0 The server in her basement is an effort to conceal her work.\u00a0 Everybody knows she did this.\u00a0 Everybody knows the purpose was to keep out prying eyes.\u00a0 The Clintons are paranoid. They\u2019re excessively private. They don\u2019t want people investigating, and they don\u2019t want Freedom of Information Act requests to be able to produce anything.\u00a0 Government records are public by law.\u00a0 That\u2019s why the fact that she didn\u2019t use a State Department server is the beginning of suspicions in this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_124573\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FBUGowdy.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/>So the very fact that she creates a server at home &#8212; the purpose of which is to conceal the public record (i.e., her work that is represented on that computer) &#8212; and then he says to Comey, &#8220;You would be arguing in addition to concealment, the destruction that you and I just talked about.&#8221;\u00a0 She had 60,000 emails.\u00a0 She threw 30,000 away.\u00a0 She only turned over half of those 60,000. And in the 30,000 that were thrown away, Comey admitted that they found 110 that dealt with secure information, classified and otherwise, with 56 different threads in it.\u00a0 So Gowdy is saying (summarized):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to the obvious intent of concealing by having her server, she threw away the evidence. She threw away half of the content of that server.\u00a0 That is intent!\u00a0 The failure to preserve.\u00a0 All of that would come under the heading of &#8216;intent.\u2019\u00a0 And you\u2019re also arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme, when it started, when it ended, the number of emails.&#8221;\u00a0 So he walked everybody threw here, how everything she did comes under the heading of intent to hide, intent to shade, intent to prevent disclosure.\u00a0 And he wasn\u2019t through.\u00a0 He continued with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>GOWDY:\u00a0 You mentioned there\u2019s no prescient for criminal prosecution.\u00a0 My theory is, there still isn\u2019t.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing to keep a future secretary of state or president from this exact same email scheme, or their staff.\u00a0 And my real fear is this, this double-track justice system that is rightly or wrongly perceived in this country that if you are a private in the Army and you email yourself classified information, you will be kicked out, but if you are Hillary Clinton and you seek a promotion to commander-in-chief, you will not be.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 And, again, Comey, he really&#8230; There was not a question here.\u00a0 So Comey was not&#8230; We don\u2019t have what he said in response, since there wasn\u2019t a question.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t say, &#8220;Gowdy, you know what? You\u2019re right! You\u2019re right! You\u2019re absolutely right; I was the wrong, and I\u2019m gonna go back.&#8221;\u00a0 He didn\u2019t do any of that, \u2019cause remember, now, Gowdy\u2019s purpose here&#8230; I mean, nobody thinks Comey\u2019s gonna change his mind.\u00a0 Don\u2019t think that\u2019s what this is about.\u00a0 This is for people to get on the record what really happened and to try to explain how Comey was wrong in their opinion.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what Gowdy laid out here.\u00a0 And then he went on to say after all this that to him, this is not any evidence of carelessness.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t careless or negligent whatsoever.\u00a0 She was careful, and in being careful &#8212; in structuring this to keep it hidden &#8212; we have intent out the wazoo.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:\u00a0 By the way, I should point out Don Lemon&#8230; This is in advance of my own theory as espoused earlier. Don Lemon on CNN last night suggested that sexism is at play in the criticism of Hillary\u2019s email comments.\u00a0 You see?\u00a0 Sexism! Yeah.\u00a0 They\u2019re only going after Hillary because she\u2019s a woman.\u00a0 So you level that charge, and the right people get scared. &#8220;Oh, no! I don\u2019t want to be call a sexist. Oh, no! I don\u2019t want them to call me a racist. Oh, no! I don\u2019t want them to call me a bigot.&#8221; So you let them do what they do.\u00a0 That\u2019s how this all works.<\/p>\n<p>So, as I say, we\u2019re loaded here today, folks.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Don Lemon suggests that sexism is at play in the criticism of Clinton\u2019s email conduct.\u00a0 &#8220;CNN host Don Lemon suggested &#8211;&#8221; what is this, Thursday, so Tuesday &#8220;&#8211; that sexism was in part responsible for the criticism of Hillary Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server, commenting that as the first woman with a &#8216;real shot at winning the White House,\u2019 the &#8216;men at the top\u2019 would have a lot to say about her.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon compared the tumult over Clinton\u2019s emails to fireworks on the Fourth of July.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;This is CNN Tonight. I\u2019m Don Lemon. When you\u2019re the first woman with a real shot at winning the White House, you know at least one thing is for sure. The men at the top are going to have a lot to say about you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fnKtjpICaG8\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember how outraged Don Lemon was over the treatment of Sarah Palin by the men at the top?\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 Do you remember how Don Lemon was very mad at how the men at the top were treating Sarah Palin when she might end up being the first female vice president?\u00a0 I don\u2019t recall that, either.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember one word of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is how Lemon led his report on FBI Director James Comey\u2019s 15-minute statement Tuesday in which he did not recommend charges be brought against Clinton for her conduct at the State Department. &#8230; Lemon also played clips of both Donald Trump criticizing Clinton and of President Obama emphatically praising her while on the campaign trail. Trump and Obama are both men, playing into Lemon\u2019s narrative that sexism may play a role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, for what it\u2019s worth, this is a Washington Free Beacon story, they point out here: &#8220;Clinton\u2019s gender was not brought up at all in Comey\u2019s remarks about her and the investigation into her private email server, nor did they play into Obama and Trump\u2019s commentary about her. It is unclear why Lemon would make such a remark about an issue having nothing to do with gender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Precisely.\u00a0 Why did he bring it up?\u00a0 That\u2019s what liberals do.\u00a0 Remember, Hillary Clinton is automatically qualified.\u00a0 That has been decided.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton\u2019s automatically qualified.\u00a0 Anybody coming along and says she isn\u2019t, well, it can\u2019t be because she\u2019s not qualified, because she is.\u00a0 They\u2019ve determined that.\u00a0 So it has to be something else.\u00a0 And what do they conclude?\u00a0 It\u2019s always gonna be racism, sexism, bigotry, or homophobia.\u00a0 I mean, those are the things that the Republicans are routinely accused of, that conservatives are routinely accused of, and have been accused of for decades.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, those are the things that Republicans bend over backwards trying to prove are not true and have been doing that for decades, such as agreeing with the idea that we need comprehensive immigration reform, largely in part not only to satisfy donors who demand it, but to show the Hispanics that we do like you, we\u2019re not racists like the Democrats say.<\/p>\n<p>And of course it never works.\u00a0 We\u2019re in the process here of trying to prove the old thing about proving a negative, which you can\u2019t do, but it keeps you on defense as a result.\u00a0 So, anyway, Don Lemon, I know he doesn\u2019t speak for anybody. 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