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<\/p>\nRUSH: There\u2019s a lot going on today. We\u2019ve had John Dowd, who is Trump\u2019s original lawyer in the Russian hearing or the investigation. Mueller\u2019s got nothing, saying there is not gonna be a report. He said this in a podcast that has been reported by ABC News. ABC News is devastated by this news.<\/p>\n
John Dowd saying Mueller\u2019s got nothing, is probably not gonna issue a report, and even if he does issue a report, there\u2019s not gonna be anything about Trump in it because there isn\u2019t any collusion.<\/p>\n
The Senate Intelligence Committee has announced that, after two years, they\u2019ve found no evidence of collusion. To my mind, if Dowd is right about this, it means all eyes should turn to the SDNY, the Southern District of New York, where actual prosecutions of the Trump inaugural committee are being prepared.<\/p>\n
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And if Mueller is not gonna issue a report and doesn\u2019t have anything, it doesn\u2019t mean that the SDNY is standing down.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: John Dowd — the original Trump lawyer during the Mueller probe — says that Mueller has nothing.\u00a0\u00a0Zilch, zero, nada!\u00a0\u00a0He maintains the president\u2019s gonna be cleared.\u00a0\u00a0He says that Mueller may not even issue a report!\u00a0\u00a0That is how deft this whole investigation has ended up being.\u00a0\u00a0Dowd spoke with ABC for the premiere of a new podcast called The Investigation.<\/p>\n
He headed Trump\u2019s “legal team during a crucial stretch of the [Mueller] investigation.” He “believes the entire affair will end in silence from … Mueller, and called the massive two-year probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign ‘a terrible waste of time.'” He said, “‘I don\u2019t think there\u2019ll be a report. … I will be shocked if anything regarding the president is made public, other than ‘We\u2019re done.\u2019 … ‘I know exactly what [Mueller] has,\u2019 Dowd said.<\/p>\n
“‘I know exactly what every witness said, what every document said. I know exactly what [Mueller] asked. And I know what the conclusion or the result is,\u2019 he said… Dowd\u2019s overall view of the investigation” is this: “He called it ‘one of the greatest frauds this country\u2019s ever seen,'” and it is.\u00a0\u00a0And there are people within the Trump legal team who have said (and this backs this up), that for the last six to nine months, and maybe even longer, Mueller hasn\u2019t even been actively involved in this, that it\u2019s been taken over by Andrew Weissmann and some of the other lawyers that Mueller hired.<\/p>\n
Here is audio from podcast where Dowd appeared.\u00a0\u00a0The host is Kyra Phillips.\u00a0\u00a0She used to be at CNN.\u00a0\u00a0Now she\u2019s… She\u2019s the wife, by the way, of John Roberts of Fox News. Just for a little, you know, gossip information for you there.\u00a0\u00a0The question: “Word is the Mueller report\u2019s gonna drop in the next couple of weeks.”<\/p>\n
DOWD:\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t think there will be a report! The rules of the department say no report.\u00a0\u00a0I will be shocked if anything regarding the president is made public other than, “We\u2019re done.”<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0He continued with this…<\/p>\n
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DOWD:\u00a0\u00a0I know what the case is.\u00a0\u00a0There is no case.\u00a0\u00a0People in the press say, “Well, they must have some surprise.”\u00a0\u00a0He doesn\u2019t have… I know exactly what he has.\u00a0\u00a0I know exactly what every witness said, what every document said.\u00a0\u00a0I know exactly what he has, and I know what the conclusion and result is.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s no basis.\u00a0\u00a0There\u2019s no exposure.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s been a terrible waste of time.\u00a0\u00a0This is one of the greatest frauds this country\u2019s ever seen.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0Look, folks, there\u2019s no question about that — and I think even saying it that way undersells the scope of what has actually happened here.\u00a0\u00a0You\u2019ve heard me weigh in and opine on this for a year and a half or longer now.\u00a0\u00a0This is more than a fraud.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a coup.\u00a0\u00a0It is a silent coup that has been perpetrated knowingly, and I think the real nature of the fraud is to cover-up the real criminality that did occur here and the real collusion that did occur here. Because the collusion with Russia happened on the Hillary Clinton side, when she commissioned that dossier to be written and Christopher Steele — an out-of-work British spy.<\/p>\n
He then gets hold of some Russian contacts he knows and they literally start making things up at the behest of Hillary Clinton and Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS.\u00a0\u00a0They literally start making things up like the golden showers story, like Trump renting a hotel room and hiring a bunch of prostitutes to come urinate on it once he found out that Michelle Obama and Barack Obama had slept in the bed.<\/p>\n
That kind of stuff.\u00a0\u00a0Thirty-six pages of it.\u00a0\u00a0John McCain was used to get this dossier spread throughout the American media with so-called credibility.\u00a0\u00a0We have all of this known criminal behavior and lying to congressional committees by members of the FBI leadership, from McCabe to Comey to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.\u00a0\u00a0And all of that, I think, is what this investigation sought to cover up.\u00a0\u00a0And I believe that when they commissioned Mueller to start this investigation — with no crime spelled out, in violation of Justice Department regulations.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re gonna appoint a special counsel, the regulations say there has to be a crime.\u00a0\u00a0You have to point the prosecutor to some specific area.\u00a0\u00a0Well, there wasn\u2019t any crime specified.\u00a0\u00a0This was open-ended.\u00a0\u00a0I think the purpose of this investigation was to allow an untouchable special counsel to be able to peel back any aspect of Donald Trump\u2019s life they wanted to try to unpeel, under the theory that somewhere there they were gonna find a crime.<\/p>\n
Somewhere they\u2019re gonna find something that they could charge with a crime. But even though — and this is crucially important — let\u2019s say Dowd\u2019s right. Let\u2019s say there isn\u2019t a report, let\u2019s say that there\u2019s nothing here. The damage, and a lot of it, has been done! Two years of leaks. A coup has taken place here. A silent coup. Two years of never-ending leaks, that Trump stole the election, that he colluded with the Russians, the Russians tampered with votes, the Russians may have affected the outcome of an election.<\/p>\n
This investigation has served as another opposition research project for the Democrat Party to use if all else fails in a campaign against Trump in 2020. So even if Mueller\u2019s got nothing, we can\u2019t say that it was useless. Because look what they were able to do every day, 24\/7, 24 hours, seven days a week, every day, look what they were able to do in their effort to defame and slander Donald Trump. And they pulled that off every day for two years.<\/p>\n
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The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, the AP, Google, Facebook, Twitter, look at the defamation that surrounded Donald Trump and smothered Donald Trump and his family in the mainstream media under the presumption that he was guilty of stealing an election and colluding with Russia. So to say that the investigation ends with nothing, is a big yawner, is not true.<\/p>\n
The Democrats now have an unbelievable amount of Mueller-gathered opposition research against Trump. If there\u2019s not a report, I would contend to you that if there isn\u2019t a report here, the sole reason is because they don\u2019t want to give away the opposition research they\u2019ve collected on Trump. What price is Mueller gonna pay if there\u2019s no report? He\u2019s not elected to anything. He\u2019s Mr. Integrity, as far as the media is concerned.<\/p>\n
So if there\u2019s no report and people on the left are gonna have to deal with the fact that they thought this guy had the smoking gun evidence to get rid of Trump, and they\u2019ll have their own mental breakdowns to deal with among hard-core leftists in the general public who really believe that Mueller had the goods here. But if there\u2019s no report, it\u2019s not gonna be because they didn\u2019t find anything. It\u2019s going to be because they\u2019re not gonna divulge all of the dirt that they did find on Trump that is usable in a campaign.<\/p>\n
And all of this opposition research all of these two years, this entire effort at slanderous defamation has been paid for by the American taxpayer with no financial accounting whatsoever. And these prosecutors of Mueller\u2019s have been out of control. They have put people in jail. They have ruined people\u2019s lives over nothing but process crimes, lying to investigators in the case of Michael Flynn. And who knows what the hell Manafort and Gates did. But whatever it was, it wasn\u2019t colluding with Russia on behalf of Trump or anybody else.<\/p>\n
Manafort\u2019s in solitary confinement, slowly fading away into obscurity. There have been no limits. There has been no accountability. There has been no knowledge of what\u2019s gone on here. Robert Mueller is the invisible man. There has not been any updating the American people. If they knew 14 months ago that there was no evidence of Trump colluding with Russia, why not announce it? Because it wasn\u2019t the purpose. The purpose is to continue this fraud that Trump did collude, to continue this slanderous defamation that Trump is illegitimate, does not deserve to be the president.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s why they didn\u2019t announce they don\u2019t have anything. That\u2019s why they might not announce that they didn\u2019t find anything now, if Dowd is right. They don\u2019t need Mueller to issue a report in order to engage in leaks and smears as 2020 draws near. Okay. So Mueller doesn\u2019t issue a report. But what\u2019s to say select media won\u2019t be shown that report? And what\u2019s to say that select media will not leak some of what they\u2019ve been shown?<\/p>\n
And what if the report has all kinds of caca in it about Trump being unfit for office? “Yes. We didn\u2019t find any evidence of collusion, but Trump made America vulnerable to such collusion with his lack of preparation, lack of sophisticate.” Start leaking stuff like that. “Unnamed sources in the intelligence community tell the New York Times and Washington Post that the reported clearly says Donald Trump is unqualified to breathe” or some such thing.<\/p>\n
This report is gonna be used against Donald Trump with nobody ever knowing what\u2019s in it for sure. And they will need to use that information, because if a report is not issued that finds collusion with the Russians, Trump may experience a huge bump in the ratings for a witch hunt. They can\u2019t afford that. They can\u2019t afford for, “Sorry, no report here, no collusion.” Think of the bump Trump will get from that. They\u2019ve got to have some way of countering it.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0\u00a0If it\u2019s true that Mueller does not issue a report on Russian collusion and Trump, it\u2019s only so that Democrats can continue to leak from what it supposedly says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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