{"id":280270,"date":"2018-07-25T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=280270"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:08:30","slug":"former-clinton-war-room-lawyer-and-defense-hack-provides-cnn-with-secret-tape-of-trump-and-his-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/25\/former-clinton-war-room-lawyer-and-defense-hack-provides-cnn-with-secret-tape-of-trump-and-his-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Clinton War Room Lawyer and Defense Hack Provides CNN with Secret Tape of Trump and His Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: In the first place, CNN did not obtain anything. Lanny Davis gave it to them. So why doesn\u2019t their headline say, “Former Clinton war room lawyer and defense hack provides CNN with secret tape of Trump and his lawyer”? Because that\u2019s the headline.<\/p>\n

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I know we have to talk about this stuff today, but, frankly, you know, Snerdley said he was getting bored with all this FISA stuff. This stuff is all about Trump\u2019s private life. This has nothing to do with Donald Trump even as a candidate. You know, is it just me? I have to ask, folks. Did I dream this?<\/p>\n

It seems like it was just a couple weeks ago that the Democrats and the media literally went crazy when Louie Gohmert asked Peter Strzok Smirk about his private life<\/a>, i.e., having an affair with another FBI lawyer while investigating Trump and trying to sabotage the Trump presidency and campaign, and everybody went nuts. And everybody said that Louie Gohmert should be ashamed. The Democrats in unison on that committee, they turned around, they started pointing fingers at Louie. But Louie of course was not intimidated and kept probing on this.<\/p>\n

But you remember that? Well, now all this is is the creation of noise. This is really the creation of noise. The Democrats have tried this before. This doesn\u2019t even get close to the NBC Access Hollywood video. There isn\u2019t any crime in anything that supposedly is on that tape that\u2019s been released. We discussed this tape being released yesterday and why they might have waived attorney-client privilege for it because there\u2019s nothing really incriminating on the tape in terms of a criminal sense.<\/p>\n

And it looks like this tape has been redacted or edited to end, a screeching halt here, to create a point or an illusion that may be the opposite of what\u2019s actually on the tape. Remember who we\u2019re dealing with here. Lanny Davis who came to fame defending the Clintons during the Lewinsky scandal, was very good at it, he was on TV 24 hours. If there was a cable channel on the air, Lanny Davis was there. I met Lanny Davis once. I was over at Fox to appear on — it might have been the Tony Snow Sunday show. I was in the greenroom and it was all during this Lewinsky stuff.<\/p>\n

I walked in there, and Lanny Davis, to preempt any other conversation, came up to me, “I know a great friend of yours, a great friend of yours, and we went to law school together.” And I said, “Who\u2019s that?” He said, “Michael Medved.” And that\u2019s what the conversation became about. He forestalled any conversation having anything to do with what he was doing.<\/p>\n

\"\"He said, “You know, look at me. Would you believe I can eat anything I want? I don\u2019t have to diet at all. I can eat anything I want. You know my wife is pregnant. My wife is having another baby,” like he had nothing to do with it. “My wife\u2019s at home having another baby.” Well, this is all fascinating. But that\u2019s how he forestalled, you know, any — not that I would have begun the discussion anyway.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s who the guy is. So he\u2019s now got this tape, and it\u2019s out there. And I\u2019ll tell you what this is. It\u2019s just continual noise. Reince Priebus made a great point last night. He was on Fox News. And what Priebus said I think is a great indication of what, in the swamp — you know, there are some pro-Trump people in the swamp. You can probably put \u2019em all in a phone booth, but there are some there. And I think Reince Priebus has become one of them.<\/p>\n

You know, he was chief of staff over there for a while. Priebus said if all of this stuff wasn\u2019t going on, the president\u2019s approval rating might be over 60%. If all of this stuff wasn\u2019t going on, if there wasn\u2019t all of this noise, there would be a much greater focus on the president\u2019s agenda and how successful it has been. And then he said, let\u2019s be honest, part of the reason for the noise is the president. He just won\u2019t let anything go. Something comes up that\u2019s critical of him, he has to tweet about it, he has to hit back, and we know that\u2019s what the president does.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been very open. He was on this program during the campaign when everybody was upset that he\u2019s tweeting and responding to every little attack out there. I asked him about it. He said, “Look. You hit me –” this has been my life “– you hit me, you hit my family, I\u2019m gonna hit you back. You criticize me, I\u2019m gonna criticize you back.”<\/p>\n

So the president\u2019s in character. He\u2019s being who he is. The rest of these people — it literally is trying to sink a battleship with BBs fired through a plastic straw, now banned in San Francisco. Wait \u2019til we get to that. There\u2019s so much cockamamie news out there.<\/p>\n

Folks, I ran across a story yesterday and I spent a little bit of time last night and today editing it. It\u2019s by a writer I\u2019ve not heard of. His name is Douglas Rushkoff and the piece originally ran at a publication called Medium. It\u2019s been reprinted in The Guardian, the U.K. Guardian<\/a>. He is the author of a book coming up called Team Human.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this guy found himself in a room with five or six of the richest hedge fund\/tech people. Now, he has, the writer I guess has a reputation of being somewhat of a futurist, and he thought that these guys wanted to talk to him about the future and what he saw. And it wasn\u2019t about that at all. And I can\u2019t wait \u2019til we get to that point in the program today when I share this with you, because whether you like it or not, these are very influential people.<\/p>\n

As hedge fund managers, they are beyond wealthy. They\u2019re multibillionaires. They finance and underwrite a lot of the tech. The tech industry has its own bunch of super billionaires. And they are highly influential in a lot of clandestine and beneath-the-surface ways. And it\u2019s scary. It is scary what these people asked this journalist. It\u2019s scary what they believe. They cannot be very bright.<\/p>\n

They are thought of as among the most intelligent and brightest people around because they\u2019re billionaires and because they run hedge funds and have gotten rich doing that and because they\u2019re involved in tech. But when it gets right down to brass tacks common sense, these people are dangerously stupid. And I want to illustrate that as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s this other stuff that we have to start with. I don\u2019t know. Maybe Trump wasn\u2019t joking when he said that the Russians are already meddling in the 2018 campaign to try to defeat him. Maybe Trump was thinking about this so-called evidence, which surely must have been a hot topic around D.C., this Cohen business. Now, the thing about this that irritates me is I\u2019m required to spend a certain amount of time talking about it, even though it doesn\u2019t reveal anything that we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t seen… There\u2019s nothing new in here. Everything in it we have seen reported over the weekend and in the past. There isn\u2019t any crime. There isn\u2019t even the implication of a crime, other than the way Lanny Davis and some people have tried to edit the thing. It\u2019s not a crime to pay off a blackmailer, for example, and Rudy is making it clear that Trump wanted the payoff “memorialized,”<\/a> meaning he wanted there to be a record of it, which means that Rudy is saying Trump did not want to make this payment in cash.<\/p>\n

\"\"But this is nothing compared to Access Hollywood, and here\u2019s why I\u2019m really not all that hot to talking about it, because I know that it isn\u2019t gonna separate a single one of you from Trump. You look at this, and the fact that it\u2019s on CNN is step one in making sure that you are not affected by it. The fact that they won\u2019t let it go. The fact that Trump\u2019s lawyer has turned on him, many people say, “Wow! Mueller really must have something on Cohen. Wow! Mueller really must have something to cause Cohen to betray Trump like that.”<\/p>\n

This is not Mueller\u2019s case anymore. This case has been handed off (like every other Mueller case) to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, the now famous SDNY. It would be great if some of this noise could be eliminated. It won\u2019t be because the media\u2019s not going to let it evaporate or dissipate in any way.\u00a0 This is all they\u2019ve got in their ongoing quest to win the House in November and to defeat Trump in 2020 — and, if they can, still realize their dream of having Trump thrown out of office or forced to resign as quickly as is possible.<\/p>\n

So first question I got today:\u00a0 “What the hell has Mueller found to scare Cohen so much he would risk his livelihood by flipping on Trump?\u00a0 Who would ever hire Cohen again after this?\u00a0 Who gave these tapes to Lanny Davis?”\u00a0 Well, we discussed yesterday that the Trump team, Giuliani, waived privilege on these tapes.\u00a0 So if they waived privilege, then that\u2019s kind of a signal, “Okay.\u00a0 Go ahead and release \u2019em.”\u00a0 I mean, they\u2019re in the hands of the court.\u00a0 The special master has all this stuff that they absconded from Cohen\u2019s office in that raid.<\/p>\n

And if the Giuliani-Trump team figures that there\u2019s nothing on these tapes that is incriminating, go ahead and release \u2019em.\u00a0 You know, waive the privilege, get out in front of it, stay on offense with this stuff.\u00a0 There\u2019s supposedly 11 more tapes, and the word is that Trump isn\u2019t on any of \u2019em.\u00a0 But we don\u2019t know.\u00a0 By the way, the recording quality is horrible, and Rudy has addressed that.\u00a0 Rudy made a point that these tapes… He\u2019s heard much worse tapes than these, and he\u2019s talking about the quality.\u00a0 He\u2019s not talking about the substance.<\/p>\n

When Rudy says, “I\u2019ve heard much worse tapes,” what he\u2019s talking about is the tapes that were the result of bugging the Ravenite Social Club and other such hangouts of John Gotti.\u00a0 I happen to know the FBI agent\/agents that actually placed those bugs, risking their lives placing those bugs in various places that John Gotti hung out.\u00a0 And if you\u2019ve heard those tapes played, if you\u2019ve heard them played as they were in court, you know you can\u2019t alone understand.\u00a0 There\u2019s all kinds of echo.<\/p>\n

The microphones have to be hidden deep inside walls.\u00a0 They\u2019re not anywhere near close to the people who are speaking, and it takes a long time to actually translate these tapes or transcribe them and get them accurately.\u00a0 You cannot follow them without some sort of subtitling or closed-captioning type of effect if you happen to be watching the Gotti tapes played on TV.\u00a0 Rudy\u2019s making the point that these are the same way.\u00a0 It\u2019s very difficult to understand, and there appear to be some really quick, jagged edits in the segment of the tape that has been released.<\/p>\n

So I think it\u2019s just more of the same.\u00a0 It\u2019s the media trying to make something out of really nothing.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t anything new here.\u00a0 It is the examination of the president\u2019s private life.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, Lanny Davis, back in those days defending Bill Clinton, what did he say every night countless times on TV?\u00a0 “It\u2019s only sex.\u00a0 It\u2019s nobody\u2019s business.\u00a0 It\u2019s his private life.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t affect his job.\u00a0 We need to move on and forget it!”\u00a0 Lanny Davis, talking about Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So during the break here I was going through my Stack stuff that I got for today\u2019s program, and I just decided, screw this Cohen business, screw it. If you want to call and talk about it, if you have a question, you want comment, have at it. 800-282-2882. But I\u2019m not gonna spend any time on this above and beyond whatever it is you on the phones ask me about, because this is just another distraction.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s nothing here. We\u2019ve been here and done that, and it\u2019s just the latest attempt by the media — I\u2019m getting sick and tired of having to give credence to every one of these bogus attacks and these attempts that they are making to get rid of Trump and overturn the election results and so forth. I\u2019m not gonna help them by making this a bigger deal than it is. As I say, if you have questions about it, or you want to make a comment, feel free, have at it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I\u2019ll tell you why. I\u2019m not gonna deal with this stupid Cohen video because I\u2019m sick and tired of CNN setting the agenda. I\u2019m not gonna sit here and keep reacting to this stuff. I know Trump people are not gonna be affected by this. This has nothing to do with Trump as a candidate, nothing to do with Trump as president. This is Trump\u2019s private life. He\u2019s led a full life, a much fuller life than 95% of people covering him.<\/p>\n

Ninety-five percent of people covering Donald Trump are jealous as hell of the life that he has lived. They\u2019re trying to cut him down for any number of reasons. And I\u2019m sick and tired of helping \u2019em out. You know, let this thing play out as it will, just like the Access Hollywood video played out. It didn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is a different kind of politician. The Democrats do not know any other way to get rid of Republican politicians than the way they\u2019ve always done it. They cannot adapt to Donald Trump. They don\u2019t know who they\u2019re dealing with. They\u2019re not trying to find out why you love him. They don\u2019t care about that. They think they\u2019re gonna finally be able to fix you into distancing yourself from him using their same old tried and true techniques.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gonna work. And, frankly, there are more important things out there today than just chronicling what the little malcontent children at CNN seem to be bugged by every day. If there\u2019s ever a group of people embarrassing themselves, it\u2019s CNN. It\u2019s not Donald Trump. And it\u2019s the rest of the Drive-By Media. This today holds no interest to me. I\u2019m not gonna get into the intricate aspects of it. It will play out as it plays out. I want to devote time to things that have much greater interest to me and I know will have much greater interest for you.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: In the meantime, Magnus in Houston, Texas.\u00a0 Great to have you with us on the program.\u00a0 Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Hello, Rush.\u00a0 I\u2019d just like to help close the book on this Lanny Davis tape.\u00a0 Let\u2019s call it what it is.\u00a0 It\u2019s not an attack on Trump.\u00a0 They know that we know we didn\u2019t elect a choirboy to go to a street fight.\u00a0 This is an attack on Melania, the first lady.\u00a0 They\u2019re trying to drive a wedge between him and his wife, and that\u2019s just dirty.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH:\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t doubt that.\u00a0 But I think it\u2019s an attack to Trump.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think these people can do anything else.\u00a0 I think they\u2019re fixated.\u00a0 I think that they have almost become robotic now.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually to me quite breathtaking to watch, particularly CNN and then next MSNBC, which I will admit I don\u2019t watch much because I really… Folks, you have to really guard against exposing yourself to too much insanity and low-IQ behavior, \u2019cause it can affect you.\u00a0 You have to be really careful.\u00a0 I don\u2019t go near this stuff.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the reasons I don\u2019t watch cable news anymore, \u2019cause it\u2019s just plain stupid. It\u2019s shortsighted. It\u2019s simple-minded, simpleton stuff.\u00a0 CNN has become an ongoing joke; they\u2019re the last people to get it.\u00a0 They\u2019ve become robotic now.\u00a0 Their hatred for Donald Trump, their disgust at being unable to dislodge him is what\u2019s driving all of this.\u00a0 They hate Melania!\u00a0 There hasn\u2019t been… Folks, there hasn\u2019t been a single story in any woman\u2019s magazine about our first lady and her fashion sense and typical first lady things.<\/p>\n

You couldn\u2019t go three days in a given week without two or three of those about Michelle Obama.\u00a0 There hasn\u2019t been one about Melania Trump because they hate her.\u00a0 The hate in this country is all contained on the left, and it is on display each and every day in the leftist media.\u00a0 Yeah, they hate Melania, and they would love for Melania to publicly abandon and leave Trump since they are unable to make you leave Trump.\u00a0 But that isn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n

But they are also trying to separate you, who voted for Trump.\u00a0 They still think they can do it.\u00a0 When they got rid of Richard Nixon… Do not make the mistake of thinking this was so long ago, so far ago that it doesn\u2019t matter today.\u00a0 They got rid of Richard Nixon.\u00a0 That, to me, was a watershed to them.\u00a0 That told them that if they put their mind to it, they can get rid of presidents.\u00a0 They tried to get rid of George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

They tried to get rid of George H. W. Bush, and they might have had a chance if he had served two terms.\u00a0 They drove George W. Bush\u2019s approval numbers down to the high twenties.\u00a0 They celebrated having done that each and every day.\u00a0 They destroyed the war on terror.\u00a0 They destroyed and undermined the war in Iraq in the process.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t care.\u00a0 They attempted to destroy the policies we had to deal with terrorists.\u00a0 They tried to blow everything up, and they\u2019re trying to do it now.<\/p>\n

They are attempting to undermine every aspect of the Trump agenda they can because the objective is to get rid of him and overturn, nullify the election results.\u00a0 They did it once; in their minds, they can do it again.\u00a0 They\u2019re obsessed with it, and they are spitting mad that they haven\u2019t been able to do it by now.\u00a0 This is the first Republican that has not slinked away and begged for forgiveness.\u00a0 This is the first Republican who has not apologized for the transgressions he\u2019s been accused of!<\/p>\n

This is the first president to fight back at \u2019em and call \u2019em out for being the small-minded Nimrods that they are!\u00a0 This is the first Republican and the first president who called \u2019em what they are: Purveyors of fake BS!\u00a0 They\u2019re beside themselves.\u00a0 They\u2019re used to people being scared of them, intimidated by them.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care what time of day you tune in to CNN, you\u2019re watching raw, undiluted sewage-level hatred for an American human being who goes by the name of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

I cannot impress upon you how beside themselves that they are, that they have not been able to get rid of him.\u00a0 I can\u2019t tell you, I cannot accurately describe the hatred they have for Trump defeating Hillary.\u00a0 I can\u2019t tell you, I can\u2019t adequately describe the hatred they have for Trump for dismantling the agenda of their precious President Obama.\u00a0 They\u2019re so fit to be tied over so much — and then you add to it the fact that Trump is an outsider and not one of them, therefore not sophisticated, not qualified, not elite enough.<\/p>\n