RUSH: Michael Cohen has accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors, and the Drive-By Media is going nuts! I mean, they\u2019re so excited here they can barely contain themselves. Now, they have forgotten something. This is not Mueller\u2019s case. Michael Cohen did not reach a plea deal with the special counsel investigating Trump. If you remember, the special counsel passed this case off to the United States attorney\u2019s office, the Southern District of New York, which is the Manhattan office of the U.S. attorney. They have the case. They are the federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n
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Mueller passed this case off with full knowledge of what Cohen had, which means Cohen didn\u2019t have anything of value that Mueller wanted which would prove collusion or obstruction, because it didn\u2019t happen. They\u2019re beside themselves because they\u2019re now hoping, “Oh, my God.” They\u2019re hoping so much that Cohen flipped on Trump. “Oh, my God.” And they\u2019re just gonna die to find out what happened.<\/p>\n
They not stopping to think that Cohen might have been in trouble on his own. That Cohen might have stretched the boundaries of the law on his own, having nothing to do with Trump. I guarantee you Mueller would not have passed this case off if there was anything in there that he could use in his upcoming blistering report to nail Trump. So I think they\u2019re getting their hopes up here over something that\u2019s not gonna materialize.<\/p>\n
I have no idea what crimes Cohen committed that he needed to enter a plea deal for. Some of it may involve Stormy Daniels. But let me tell you what they want. They want Trump\u2019s tax returns. They have always believed that Trump\u2019s tax returns hold the smoking-gun evidence that the Russians have been propping Trump up, the Trump Organization has been bought and paid for by the Russians for years and years and years.<\/p>\n
They think that Trump tax fraud will be readily seeable with Trump\u2019s tax returns. They think that it will prove that Trump does not have anywhere near the money that he has said he has and that he lives off of. That he\u2019s not a billionaire, that he\u2019s a total phony and a total fraud! And they think that\u2019s why Trump will not turn over his tax returns, and they desperately wanted to see them.<\/p>\n
So they are hoping that Cohen\u2019s got some kind of knowledge of Trump\u2019s tax returns and involved with Trump in some kind of lawbreaking that he\u2019s reached a plea deal here and thus has flipped on Trump. But I have to warn everybody that if that kind of evidence existed, I don\u2019t think Mueller would have passed the case off. There might be some Stormy Daniels stuff in there.<\/p>\n
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I mentioned earlier, I got a text message from a friend late yesterday afternoon. And I was invigorated to see this. Any time I see evidence that the general population understands something, it enthuses me. It gives me great comfort.<\/p>\n
And my buddy\u2019s message read this way: “I\u2019m sure you saw the tweet comparing Mueller to McCarthyism. Mueller is worse, and here\u2019s why. McCarthy had a limited mandate to investigate government employees. His scope was specific and defined. Mueller\u2019s mandate is not clearly defined. His scope is unlimited. The power he currently has is unprecedented and not anticipated or supported in our Constitution.”<\/p>\n
And this is so right on the money. He then said, “I don\u2019t believe we have a fourth independent branch of government, which we now have with Mueller. The deputy attorney general screwed up, not limiting the power and scope of Mueller. I\u2019m confused why it hasn\u2019t been adjusted or refined.”<\/p>\n
And I wrote back. I said, “Because the deputy AG did not screw up. The deputy AG intended exactly what you have just nailed here, buddy, and Mueller is plowing through the presidency and plowing through the Constitution and ripping both of them to shreds. He\u2019s establishing himself and his office, not as a fourth branch, but rather as the supreme branch. And that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n
Where is it written that the special counsel gets to sit in judgment of the president? There isn\u2019t anything like this in the Constitution. But that\u2019s how this is being portrayed. The media, the deputy AG, everybody is treating this special counsel, Mueller personally and his office and his investigation separately as some powerful existence over here that somehow has power over Trump, enough power to determine whether Trump stays in office or not.<\/p>\n
And there\u2019s no such power invested in either a special counsel or this one! The Constitution does not address this. That\u2019s why I say that Mueller is destroying the presidency here. He\u2019s literally plowing through it with this idea that the presidency is subject to an ongoing, never-ending review of some appointed lawyer and however many tainted investigators he can assemble.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s exactly how this is being portrayed. It\u2019s exactly how it\u2019s being presented in the media. And it\u2019s exactly how Mueller is playing it! Which, again, I ask, how can the man with the greatest integrity and honor and honesty in Washington engage in this? Because this is shredding the Constitution. He is not a fourth branch. He\u2019s not a supreme branch. Trump can fire him any time he wants. He does not have the power to judge Trump\u2019s presidency each and every day.<\/p>\n
Imagine if we did. Imagine if there were such a constitutional position. The American people vote, they elect a president. But over here is somebody appointed from the Department of Justice to conduct essentially an ongoing investigation day in and day out of the man the American people just elected. He can investigate 20 years ago, 30 years ago.<\/p>\n
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He can investigate the present, there\u2019s no limit on what he can investigate, no limit to his subpoena power. There is no limit to who he can charge. There\u2019s no limit to how much money he can spend. That\u2019s what this is. And in the process it is, he\u2019s plowing through the presidency, the office of the presidency as defined and explained in the Constitution.<\/p>\n
Now, I will guarantee you there are a lot of people, average, ordinary citizens who do not know that the Department of Justice is part of the executive branch. They do not know it. They think it\u2019s a separate branch that has more power than the presidency because that\u2019s how all this is being presented. And they think that Robert Mueller has the legitimate power to sit there and determine whether or not Donald Trump is fit to be president.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve accepted it because that\u2019s how the media and the Democrat Party has presented it. That\u2019s how the Department of Justice, some of the leaders in that DOJ and at the top of the FBI, that\u2019s how they have played this whole thing. The Drive-By Media and the Democrat Party are waiting breathlessly for Robert Mueller to pronounce on the legitimacy of the Trump presidency. That\u2019s what they are waiting for.<\/p>\n
They are hoping and praying that Robert Mueller will write a report that comes as close as possible to saying Donald Trump\u2019s presidency is illegitimate, that he should not be serving, that he should not have won. That\u2019s what they want to see. And if that\u2019s what happens, that will be nothing more than a tremendous and desperately damaging assault on the United States Constitution, because there is no such power invested in any office, any department, or any individual in the Constitution.<\/p>\n
I think a lot of what\u2019s going on is the players here involved are trying to bait Trump into firing Mueller. They\u2019re desperately looking for Trump to obstruct. They don\u2019t have any collusion because there wasn\u2019t any — all of this is so bogus. Every aspect of this is a gigantic fraud. But now they want a process crime. They want to get Trump on a process crime. And I\u2019m not talking about perjury. They want to try to get Trump for obstruction by firing Comey. If they can try to bait Trump into firing Mueller or Rosenstein, then they can make a beeline for obstruction.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Michael Cohen has surrendered to the FBI. The plea deal supposedly involves campaign finance violations, which… That might be related to the payoffs to Stormy Daniels, the porn star. Anyway, we\u2019ll see. Just keep in mind that Mueller passed that case off to the Southern District of New York, U.S. attorney\u2019s office. So there\u2019s nothing in there about the Russians in it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right. MSNBC, CNN can barely keep their clothes on, folks. They\u2019re about to descend into a massive live orgy of happiness. There are two people related to Trump now that are in court flipping. One would be Cohen, the other would be Manafort. They are convinced this is the beginning of the end of Trump. Here is the New York Times story on Cohen. Not that you can trust this. See, this is the thing. But the key to this, to me, is in the opening sentence.<\/p>\n
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Does not include cooperation? Well, now, since we\u2019re discussing who assigns gender when and various other leftist contortions as they go through life trying to be happy, what does this mean? The deal does not include corporation. They\u2019re telling us that Cohen flipped! Well, not according to this.<\/p>\n