{"id":259354,"date":"2018-01-04T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=259354"},"modified":"2018-01-05T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:26:17","slug":"the-new-york-times-tries-to-save-the-russia-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/01\/04\/the-new-york-times-tries-to-save-the-russia-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Tries to Save the Russia Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, there are other things happening out there that are percolating, and they\u2019re also falling apart. The Media\/Democrat Party investigation into collusion between Trump and Russia has fallen apart — it is hanging by a thread — and the evidence is last Saturday\u2019s New York Times.\u00a0The New York Times has done a 180.<\/p>\n

\"\"They realize they\u2019re on their last legs. There isn\u2019t any evidence of Trump collusion with Russia. There is evidence of Hillary and the Democrat Party collusion with Russia, but no evidence of any kind with Trump and Russia. Yet we have a special counsel investigating this, and nothing will happen to that. That\u2019s gotta be protected. It\u2019s gotta be saved. So on Saturday the New York Times comes out with a story claiming that it\u2019s an entirely different reason now for investigating this. The Trump-Russia collusion story doesn\u2019t have any legs, and it\u2019s about to fall apart, and the reason for this… Well, there are many reasons.<\/p>\n

But the primary bit of evidence in quotes involved this guy Carter Page. Does that name ring a bell? He was one of the first obscure, original, supposed Trump campaign officials. He was an adviser. And it was Carter Page who was written about more often than anybody else in the now-famous Trump dossier written by Christopher Steele.<\/p>\n

Well, what\u2019s become of that? Because on Saturday the New York Times published an op-ed by the two guys that created and founded Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS is the company that actually created the Trump dossier. The Fusion GPS was the connect between the Hillary campaign and Christopher Steele, who wrote the Trump dossier. They arranged for it, the money was piped through a law firm to give one level of deniability to the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n

And now all of a sudden the focus is not on Carter Page anymore but it is on this guy George Papadopoulos, who is an obscure member of the Trump foreign policy team. It\u2019s even a stretch to say that. And it\u2019s all based on the fact that he got drunk one night with somebody in the Australian diplomatic corps and happened to allude to the fact that he\u2019d been told that the Russians have some dirt on Hillary they want to pass on.<\/p>\n

So they have totally abandoned, the New York Times and the Drive-By Media have abandoned, the original concept of Trump colluding with Russia with Carter Page and have now glommed on to this guy George Papadopoulos. And they\u2019ve also said in this op-ed that there now is a new purpose. Rather than collusion between Trump and Russia, what the Fusion guys are really looking into now is Trump\u2019s business practices.<\/p>\n

Now, it will take a while to go through the original concepts of the Trump-Russia collusion via the dossier and dropping that, Carter Page, moving on to George Papadopoulos. But the point is, that whole story is about to unravel. That whole story is on the verge of unraveling, and the New York Times and the media had to do what they could to revive it and save it, and that\u2019s what their articles and op-eds were on Saturday.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking about the Mueller investigation. That\u2019s a separate entity. But it\u2019s based on some of this. You know, this yearlong, more than yearlong everyday story in the media, Trump colluded with Russia, there isn\u2019t anybody there, and they know it, and they\u2019re on the verge of dropping it and redirecting it, recomposing it to be something else that still is Trump cheated.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Look. Here\u2019s another way to look at all of this stuff with the collusion story falling apart, folks. Thanks to Devin Nunes, who is the head of the House Intelligence Committee, and he has hung in there, the Department of Justice and the FBI are now going to have to turn over all the documents relative to the Trump dossier from Fusion GPS. Now, that\u2019s another story in and of itself. Fusion GPS is now demanding that those documents, transcript of their testimony be released, even though previously they didn\u2019t want it. Now they\u2019re claiming they want it, demanding transparency when they obstructed it in the past.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason for this. The New York Times now realizes with Devin Nunes prevailing and all of this is gonna be produced and released at some point, the New York Times realizes that this is going to expose the Fusion GPS founder\u2019s testimony. When that is released it\u2019s going to expose what a fraud this whole thing about Trump-Russia collusion has been. They\u2019re gonna discover how it was invented to please Hillary\u2019s campaign who paid for it.<\/p>\n

So they needed to get ahead of this. And that\u2019s what Saturday\u2019s op-eds were about. Now they\u2019re claiming that the dossier was not the catalyst for the FBI investigation. That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to say. “The dossier? No, you\u2019re wrong about that. The dossier was not the catalyst. No, no. It was George Papadopoulos. Yeah, George Papadopoulos and his drunken rant to the Australian diplomat. Yeah, that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been looking at all along.” That\u2019s a crock. It\u2019s a made-up lie. The dossier was the focus. That\u2019s been exposed now as a campaign opposition research document bought and paid for by Hillary.<\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re trying to say the dossier was never anything. They\u2019re trying to get ahead of this because of Devin Nunes prevailing and demanding that all this stuff be made public. Here\u2019s the problem with their attempt now to make it look like George Papadopoulos was the driver of this. James Clapper, what ran the national security apparatus for Obama, claimed that he didn\u2019t even know who Papadopoulos was when he left the job as the Director of National Intelligence, he didn\u2019t even know who the guy was.<\/p>\n

Papadopoulos could not have been the catalyst for this, could not have been the mover and the shaker and the reason all this happened, but that\u2019s the story they\u2019re trying to construct, because this whole thing is on the verge of unraveling on them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Some audio sound bites support of the recent contentions made by me. First Robby Mook. This was Monday on CNN\u2019s Newsroom. Poppy Harlow, one of the infobabes at CNN, was speaking with Mook. He was Hillary\u2019s campaign manager, and the subject was what the Democrat strategy should be for the 2018 midterms. Poppy Harlow, the infobabe, said, “Robbie, you\u2019re a master at running campaigns.” Remember, now, these are the people that lost, okay? They lost to Donald Trump. They lost to somebody who, according to Michael Wolff, wanted to lose.<\/p>\n

They lost to somebody who they thought was gonna lose. They lost to somebody that they didn\u2019t think possible could win. And yet, “Robbie, you\u2019re a master at running campaigns. What do the Democrats need to run on?” This is heartening to me: They want to consult the losers about strategy for the 2018 midterms. So Robbie, what do Democrats need to run on? Can they run on the midterms on Russia, Russia, Russia, anti-Trump, anti-Trump, or do they need more to really win?<\/p>\n

MOOK: I don\u2019t think the Russia investigation is a winning message.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>MOOK: You know, voters are… They watch and they look to see what your priorities seem to be, what you\u2019re spending your time on, what your focus is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sputtering) Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Wait a minute! For the last year and a half, this has been it! That has been the reason you\u2019re gonna impeach Trump. This has been the reason Trump was elected, that the election was fraudulent, that the Russians cheated, that Trump colluded with \u2019em, that Hillary got screwed out of the election; it was hers — and now? “I don\u2019t think the Russia investigation\u2019s a winning message. Remember, now, these people have their own internal polling data, and they trust it.<\/p>\n

You and I may not anymore, but they do. They live and die by these polls. So obviously their internal polling data is telling them: This thing? There\u2019s nothing there. Don\u2019t run on it. They can\u2019t win on this, and the reason is that there isn\u2019t anything there, folks. They haven\u2019t been able to produce a shred of evidence. And I don\u2019t care how low-information the lowest low-information voter is out there. The lowest low-information voter can still figure out that Trump\u2019s still in the White House.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t found any evidence that he colluded. All it is is a bunch of allegations. So here\u2019s Mook, the brilliant architect of the Hillary campaign saying, “I don\u2019t think we need to run on it. Eh, it\u2019s not gonna take us anywhere.” I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s unraveling. Now, the Mueller investigation, that\u2019s a whole different thing, and, remember, that is about impeaching Trump, and that\u2019s about finding anything. It doesn\u2019t have to be collusion. They\u2019re long past that. And here\u2019s Clapper.<\/p>\n

I just wanted you to hear this because this was Tuesday night on CNN, Anderson Cooper speaking with… This is the guy that formally ran the Office of National Intelligence. You know what that is? After 9\/11, the Bush administration created this new intelligence agency called the Director of National Intelligence, DNI, and this guy, this department is where all intel goes, the CIA, the DIA, the “FBIIA,” the “NSAIA,” whatever it is. It sifts now through this massive bureaucracy called the director of the department.<\/p>\n

Clapper and the guy Obama chose to run it. Now, that means that all intel runs through this guy, and this guy has said that the dossier, he and the CIA director for Obama… I forget the clown\u2019s name, mental block. Brennan. They have both said that that dossier formed the basis for investigating Trump, and now that dossier, they\u2019re trying to whittle it away and change it to Papadopoulos being the reason. Now, this is important because they\u2019re now saying that… The New York Times is saying that Papadopoulos has always been the reason why they\u2019ve been looking at Trump.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s Clapper on Tuesday on CNN, Anderson Cooper: “Was George Papadopoulos a major factor in the launch of the investigation?”<\/p>\n