{"id":283130,"date":"2018-08-24T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=283130"},"modified":"2018-08-27T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T20:28:48","slug":"mark-penn-nails-the-special-counsel-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/08\/24\/mark-penn-nails-the-special-counsel-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Penn Nails the Special Counsel Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Audio sound bite number 10, Mark Penn, we have a couple of these. Mark Penn is now the pollster at Harvard, the former pollster for the Clintons. He\u2019s been writing some very, very smart stuff on the special counsel attacks, investigation into Trump. He was on with Maria Bartiromo today on the Fox Business Network.<\/p>\n<p>And Maria Bartiromo\u2019s question, &#8220;In your op-ed &#8211;&#8221; and he had a great one this week, which we highlighted and quoted several pull quotes to you &#8220;&#8211; in your op-ed, you wrote this: Contrast what\u2019s going on here with the treatment of millions of dollars paid to a Democrat law firm &#8211;&#8221; that\u2019d be Perkins Coie &#8220;&#8211; which in turn paid out money to a political research firm, Fusion GPS, and the British spy Christopher Steele without listing them on any campaign expenditure form, and yet no prosecutorial raids have been sprung on the law firm or on Fusion GPS or on Steele. The reason, it doesn\u2019t get to Trump. And all of this is about getting to Trump. So tell us, Mark, what you see is happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/geWj7dYVXAk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PENN: What I see is that associates of Trump are being targeted, and they\u2019re taking unrelated issues to try to force them, and I think in the code case, to plead to things that I don\u2019t even think are crimes. Whether or not these nondisclosure agreements were sought are personal expenses. This was litigated in the Edwards case, it was ruled by the FEC, we went through an entire year with President Clinton and impeachment over similar matters. The country rejects this. And at the same time if someone were really concerned about FEC reports suddenly raising them up to criminal prosecutions, one would be concerned about the millions of dollars that went to the law firm, was not disclosed, that it went to sponsor the dossier, which was an important matter in the election.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Translate: What he\u2019s saying is, look at the real criminality that occurred out there, including campaign finance violations left and right with Hillary paying for the dossier and hiding the money, having it run as a cutout through the law firm, Fusion GPS, too, and then having all of that used as legitimate intelligence supposedly in order to get a warrant to spy on the Republican campaign, where no investigation of the Democrat campaign has taken place at all.<\/p>\n<p>So he\u2019s talking here about the two-tier\u2019s justice system that we have. He\u2019s right on about it. Maria Bartiromo next said, &#8220;Well, we want to see some honesty in these investigations, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s important to point these things out. But it\u2019s just gotten so political, Mark. You don\u2019t just launch an investigation when there\u2019s no evidence. You don\u2019t wiretap somebody for no reason \u2019cause you don\u2019t like the guy.&#8221; Now, look. The importance of this question, when she says, &#8220;You don\u2019t launch an investigation when there\u2019s no evidence.&#8221; That\u2019s exactly what they did. But it gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>They launch an investigation telling everybody it\u2019s to find collusion by the Russians to help Hillary lose the election, right? They look at that for a year, and they don\u2019t find anything! There is no evidence! So what do they do. Well, you would think they\u2019d shut it down, write a report saying, sorry, we can\u2019t find any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>As Rosenstein has said over and over, none of their investigations have discovered any vote being changed, the outcome of any election being affected, nothing happened. Shut it down. They didn\u2019t. Now they\u2019re literally trying to destroy Donald Trump. And now going into his business. And using the State of New York to do it means whoever ends up getting caught in this cannot be pardoned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-283133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/APP-Mark-Penn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/APP-Mark-Penn.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/APP-Mark-Penn-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>That\u2019s why Mueller is handing off so much of this to New York, because whenever they convict somebody there, Trump cannot pardon them. And that means that it\u2019s gonna be much easier to flip them because that\u2019s the only route they\u2019re gonna have to escape any kind of serious punishment or what have you, like the CFO of the Trump Organization, who was hired by Trump\u2019s dad, has now been given immunity. This guy cannot be pardoned. Well, he\u2019s got immunity so he won\u2019t be guilty of anything.<\/p>\n<p>So I have a question for you, a serious question. There\u2019s no doubt what this is about now. This is about destroying Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. This is about wiping Donald Trump out financially. They can\u2019t get Donald Trump on collusion with Russians; so they\u2019re gonna get Donald Trump on having the audacity to do what he did: run for president and win.<\/p>\n<p>And the way they\u2019re gonna do it, they\u2019re not gonna stop looking, and they\u2019re not gonna stop turning over stones until they find somebody, whoever, that says, &#8220;Yeah. Trump shouldn\u2019t have got that tax. Yeah, Trump paid these people under the table.&#8221; &#8220;Yeah, Trump did this.&#8221; &#8220;When?&#8221; &#8220;Back in 1997.&#8221; &#8220;When?&#8221; &#8220;Back in 2002.&#8221; &#8220;Anything recent?&#8221; &#8220;Well, no, but it doesn\u2019t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not gonna stop \u2019til they get somebody saying this stuff. And it won\u2019t matter if they find somebody that offers contradictory evidence. That person will never be allowed to be heard from. None of this is ever gonna get to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: He&#039;s been writing some very, very smart stuff on the special counsel attacks, investigation of Trump.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":283133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mark Penn Nails the Special Counsel Attacks - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/08\/24\/mark-penn-nails-the-special-counsel-attacks\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mark Penn Nails the Special Counsel Attacks - 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