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Maude Behar Flushed Out Clapper!

May 23, 2018

RUSH: I want to get a call in here first, but, man, we’re just burgeoning here again. Let me go to Manhattan. Jeff, I’m glad you waited. You’re up first today. Welcome to the program.

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I just want to point out, I thought it was really ironic that The View — of all shows, of all people. Joy Behar is lobbing softball questions to Clapper about did they spy. And Clapper admits everything! I mean, Nunes is chipping away, trying to get the information from the DOJ and the FBI, and suddenly Clapper goes on TV and says, “We did it.” I just think it’s incredibly ironic that Joy Behar from The View would break it open.

RUSH: Oh, yeah! It’s delicious that of all people, to expose this incontrovertibly, it’s Maude Behar trying to be helpful. You know, her question to Clapper was (impression), “I mean, if you’re spying and you’re just trying to help the guy, he should be happy with you, right?” And Clapper said, “He should! He should!” Clapper said, “Yeah, we were spying. I don’t like the word ‘spying,’ but we were spying on the Russians, not the campaign.” So the caller is absolutely right here. Jeff is right. Maude Behar has flushed out James Clapper!

Maude Behar! (laughing) Ha! You gotta love it. All right.

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cccp. are you turning into dougout? Isn't it his schtick to use stupid memes that aren't funny?

They are funny to me. Comedy is subjective. So Doug is the only person that ever uses memes? Really?

Your memes are welcome here sir. And they are funny.

My favorite thing to do is find a picture and put a caption to it. Especially when it has to do with the subject at hand.

You are always welcome here my friend. Enjoy your Memorial Day.

Spygate! Trump Brands the Criminal Deep State Scandal of a Lifetime

May 23, 2018

RUSH: Well, now Donald Trump’s really done it. Now he has really done it. Now he’s referring to them as the “criminal deep state.” The Drive-By Media has the vapors. They can’t believe this. And James Comey is tweeting. And James Comey is admitting that the FBI used spies on Donald Trump. He calls them confidential human sources. Ha-ha. Plural.

Great to have you, folks. Rush Limbaugh, as always, behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. The email address, [email protected].

President Trump’s Spygate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history. And, with that, Trump has given the scandal a name: Spygate. And then listen to this next tweet. This could be the poster and the slug line for the movie: “They go after Phony Collusion with Russia, a made up Scam, and end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!”

Would that not get you into the theater, if that were the slug line for a movie? Referring to the deep state as the criminal deep state. Yeah. It is amazing to watch this play out. James Clapper, you know, I’m beginning to wonder about something. It is obvious to me that Clapper and Comey and Brennan and a few others are sticking their necks way out to protect… who? Why, none other than Barack Hussein O.

Meanwhile, where is Barack Hussein O? Well, he’s out there making gazillions of dollars. Barack Hussein O just signed a multi-eight-figure deal with Netflix with Michelle (My Belle) Obama. So while Obama’s out there raking in the dough, building a presidential library in the state of Illinois which is on the way to being abandoned — wait ’til you hear the news on that. I mean, we called this one last week. These guys are making absolute fools of themselves.

This guy Clapper is now lying all over the place. He’s on with Maude Behar yesterday on The View. And she says (imitating Behar and Clapper), “Okay. Okay. So you’re spying on the Trump campaign.” Clapper said, “Well, well, yeah, spying, yeah, I really don’t like that word. But we were not spying on Trump. We were looking for Russians.” And Maude Behar said, “Well, he ought to be happy, he ought to love you, you’re trying to help him out.” And Clapper says, “Yep, that’s right.”

Do you realize how easy this is to refute? Forget timelines here. Of course the timeline is relevant and fascinating, but not for my point here. Oh, you know what? This is an excellent opportunity for me to let you in on how I think these people are now gonna set this all up. Meaning the deep state people, the FBI, DOJ people, Clapper, Comey, Brennan, Mueller, all of these people.

Because now there is a legitimate curiosity about when this whole investigation began. And they’ve lied to us about that through the Drive-By Media. They first tried to tell us the official investigation began when they decided Carter Page might be a problem. They got a FISA warrant based on the Steele dossier. Then they said, “No, it wasn’t based on the Steele dossier. It was ’cause Carter Page had connections in Moscow.”

And then that didn’t fly because it was then revealed that the dossier’s a bunch of crap! The dossier’s political opposition research bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. So they tried something else: George Papadopoulos. Well, the investigation began July 31st, 2016, when it was learned that Papadopoulos was bragging while drunk to the Australian ambassador that he knew, the Trump campaign knew that the Russians had a bunch of missing Clinton emails.

And, by the way, let’s be straight about the emails they’re talking about here. This is not the DNC hacked emails that ended up at WikiLeaks. There’s two different sets of Democrat emails here. The ones we’re talking about are the ones that they leaked to Papadopoulos that the Russians had the Hillary emails, the missing 30 or 33,000 Hillary e-mails.

Don’t be confused by this. The deep state is trying to make you think that the emails here are the DNC hacked emails that ended up at WikiLeaks and therefore are being published by media during the summer and fall of the campaign 2016. That’s not the emails that Papadopoulos was fed information about, was bragging. Those are the Hillary emails. When Trump stood up and said, “Hey, Russia, hey, Russia, nobody can find these emails. The media’s crazy. Maybe you can find ’em, Russia.” The fact that they didn’t see that that was a joke is quite telling in and of itself.

But, anyway, then the Papadopoulos story bombs out. Now the thing is that, “No, no, the investigation actually began earlier than that.” “Oh, really? When?” “Well, it began in late spring.” “What triggered it in late spring?” “Well” — and this is what I want you to be on the lookout for. People in this deep state want you to think that everybody was minding their own business and watching the presidential campaign and letting it play out. There was no attempt to influence it at all until the Trump campaign named Carter Page and Paul Manafort, Carter Page to the foreign policy team, Papadopoulos to the foreign policy team, and Manafort as campaign manager.

What they’re trying to say is the FBI already had files on these guys as people who had done business in Russia and in Ukraine, in the case of Manafort. And they’re going to try to tell you that this was an automatic trigger and that it was a just trigger because these guys that ended up on the Trump campaign were legitimate security risks. This is why they’re moving the beginning of the investigation back to late spring 2016, because that’s when the foreign policy team was put together.

If you recall — maybe you won’t, but let me refresh your memoir. You know, Trump’s an outsider. He doesn’t have a whole lot of outsiders, never has had, doesn’t listen to very many. But in a presidential campaign there’s some must-dos. And so when you’re on the verge of winning the nomination, when you’re trending like you’re gonna win it, the media in the political process begin to demand some things from you.

And among those things, who is going to be on your foreign policy team? Who are your foreign policy advisers? And the reason this question is asked is because, as I have postulated, it simply isn’t possible that everybody running for president throughout their life has met people in every walk of life that would perhaps qualify for a powerful position in a presidential administration.

And so Trump was assumed to not know any of these people. “So, hey, who’s gonna be on your national security team?” It’s a setup question in the case of Trump. But the Trump administration decided they had to have some answers. So they went out and they picked some people to fill some jobs. One of them was Papadopoulos, one of them was Carter Page, and the other was Manafort, and that is when — that’s what you’re being told now — the FBI panicked because there was a legitimate reason to panic.

They’re gonna tell you, “Those guys had ties to Russia,” and it was at that point they’re gonna try to tell you late spring 2016 that they had no choice than to start running an investigation of the Trump campaign to protect it. Maybe Trump didn’t know these guys had ties to Russia. Now, you want to be able to nuke that? Let me tell you one way you can nuke that. If indeed the FBI and the DOJ thought that Carter Page and Paul Manafort… Let’s throw Papadopoulos in for good measure.

If they really, really thought that those hires meant the Russians were going to be involved in the very high-power structure of the Trump campaign, then why not go to the Trump campaign and warn them? Why not go to Trump and whoever else and say, “Look, you might want to rethink this. We’ve got some info on these guys, and it doesn’t look good.” Why wouldn’t they warn Trump? If they really…? Now Clapper is out saying that’s what they were doing by running their informants in the Trump campaign, they were looking out for Russian activity. No, no, no, no. By their own admission, they already had that when Page and Manafort were named.

They already had that.

They started running the spies in the campaign ’cause they already suspected Manafort and Page and to an extent Papadopoulos. This is what they’re saying now, I’m not, and it’s gonna appeal to some people. I want to warn you, it’s gonna appeal. And the reason for this, they’re trying now at this late stage to come up with anything that will justify their investigation. And if they can say that it was perfectly reasonable to be concerned about Manafort and Page because they had ties to Ukraine and Russia, then they were doing the nation’s business.

But they weren’t. They weren’t looking to help Trump. They weren’t looking to protect Trump. They didn’t warn anybody in the Trump administration about these guys. They stood aside. They put spies in there, informants, and they hoped and prayed that Trump would collude with the Russians. They weren’t trying to stop it. And by the same token, here’s the way to nuke it number two. If the FBI, the DOJ, Page, Strzok, Comey, Clapper, Brennan — if they knew that the Russians were colluding, if they…?

Forget that. If they knew and if they could prove — which they still haven’t been able to do, by the way. If they could prove that the Russians were using the Trump campaign to screw the Hillary Clinton campaign and if Trump was involved, then why not stop it and arrest somebody who was responsible for it in the Trump campaign? Why sit back and watch it? Why put spies in that are not identifying themselves? If they are there to protect Trump, the way to protect Trump was to go to him and say, “Hey, you need to know about Manafort and Page.

“You need to know what we know about ’em. You maybe need to rethink this.” They act really altruistic, but they weren’t. They didn’t say a word about this. The spies were there for entrapment, not protection. Yet Clapper is all over television trying to redefine the narrative that it was all for the protection of Donald Trump, that they weren’t spying on Trump, that they were looking out for the Russians. The way to nuke that No. 3 is, “Okay, then, Mr. Clapper, if you’re worried about the Russians tampering, why didn’t you have a spy in the Hillary campaign?

“Why were you not concerned about the Russians trying to harm Hillary? Because, after all, you have said throughout all of this that that was the objective. The Russians were trying to hurt Hillary. Well, then why didn’t you have some spies in her campaign to see if they were succeeding?” And the answer is — dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut — all of this is BS. They all expected Hillary Clinton to win. They didn’t think Donald Trump had a chance. They wanted to destroy Donald Trump as soon as he won the nomination.

They planted spies and so forth in late spring 2016. The Obama administration is where this whole thing originated. None of this is possible without the players and the actors in the Obama administration. And they are still out there — the Clappers, the Brennans, the Comeys — and they’re doing everything they can. They’re admitting to spying. They’re trying to rearrange the narrative that it was helpful and not punitive.

Meanwhile, Obama is out there not having to weigh in, not being asked about it, not being asked to defend the actions of his underlings while he’s raking in big, beaucoup bucks from Netflix and whoever the publisher is. Is it Random House? I don’t know who the publisher is for the joint memoir. But it’s coming to a head now with Trump referring to this now as “Spygate,” “criminal deep state.” They go after phony collusion with Russia, a made-up scam.

They end up getting caught in a major spy scandal the likes of which we may never have seen before. I think that is true. Trump tweeted last night that a spy was put in his campaign to help Crooked Hillary win. The tweet was, “If the person placed very early into my campaign wasn’t a SPY put there by the previous Administration for political purposes, how come such a seemingly massive amount of money was paid for services rendered — many times higher than normal…[?]

RUSH: Folks, a major, major point here. Barack Obama and Brennan have both said that the Russians were warned to stop doing what they were doing. Obama did it publicly, and Obama did this twice, by the way, in explaining how difficult it would be to actually hack and determine the outcome of a presidential election.

But, I mean, even before Trump won the nomination, Obama’s out there on TV and he’s acknowledging this Russian attempt at collusion, and he said — I’ll never forget it. We’ve even played the audio where he’s relaying to people that he had met with Putin and he had told him to cut it out. And he did it in this typical Obama faux professorial, pseudointellectual (imitating Obama), “And I was meeting with President Putin and I was very serious with him and I just told him to cut it out. Just that simple. I told him to cut it out.” As though the Word of God had just been handed down from Mt. Sinai.

But the point is, Obama’s acknowledging that they know that the Russians are trying something, or at least — you know, folks, I have to tell you something. I know it is conventional wisdom if you know what’s good for you, you acknowledge, “Oh, yeah. The Russians, no doubt they were trying to hamper our election. No doubt they were.”

I have to tell you, I don’t even buy into that, the way it’s being portrayed. The Russians, and before them the Soviets, had as a matter of their existence the infiltration of various areas of their enemies. The Soviets long ago invaded American education. The Soviets long ago invaded American religion. It’s just what communism does. It doesn’t sit there and just idly observe enemies. It tries to destroy them.

And during the Cold War and other areas the Soviets were all over this country attempting to influence. They’ve always been trying to get spies placed in the State Department. Whitaker Chambers was one of the early Soviet spies who defected. Whitaker Chambers, the life and case highlighted by William F. Buckley Jr. at National Review. He was a long Soviet spy, came out, went public, details, many books written about it. Alger Hiss. It isn’t new. And the way this is being portrayed is that it is new.

This particular instance of Russian collusion is being presented to the American public as though there’s something unique about it, never before done, because this collusion was aimed at Hillary Clinton, this collusion tried to steal a presidential election. And my point is that it isn’t anything new. They have been trying to discredit American presidents and presidential candidates since the days of the Soviet Union, since the Malta conference they have been trying to do this.

But this is all being presented as though it’s unique, it is more successful than it’s ever been. And I would even argue that. I would argue the old Soviet Union had much greater success infiltrating American institutions than this current crop of Putin former KGB people in stealing the U.S. election. It’s flat-out not possible. And yet the narrative is that it happened and that they couldn’t stop it and we tried, and it’s just not true, folks, I say plaintively.