RUSH: Now, Trump tweeted earlier today that everybody here at the G20 is talking about why Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA. (laughing) Here you have the 20 largest economies of the world meeting in a summit.
And Trump tweets that all anybody’s talking about is Podesta refusing to let the FBI look at the DNC computer! (laughing) So we have a story here from the New York Post today. Peter Schweizer is back: “Uncovering the Russia Ties of Hillary’s Campaign Chief,” and this is an in-depth story and it’s actually an expose the guy who does have ties with Russia, and that’s John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign manager. Schweizer was on… I think he’s been on Fox, maybe Fox Business Channel. He’s been talking about this, and here’s some pull on quotes from the story. It’s an op-ed that Schweizer wrote.
“In short, Clinton’s top campaign chief and a senior counselor to Obama,” that’s Podesta, “sat on [a company named] Joule’s board alongside top Russian officials as Putin’s Kremlin-backed investment fund funneled $35 million into Joule.” The bottom line here is that Podesta was an investor and director of a company into which an investment fund run by Putin invested $35 million. So the Russians put $35 million into a company that Podesta worked for and worked with. “No one looking at the Podesta fact pattern can claim to care about rooting out Russian collusion and not rigorously investigate the tangle of relationships.”
If you’re gonna talk about collusion — Russian collusion, Trump, whatever — you have to look at real collusion between Russia and Podesta. Schweizer says, “Are U.S. officials investigating the matter? We don’t know. When Bartiromo asked Podesta whether his closed-door session in front of the House Intelligence Committee included questions about his Russian ties and Joule, Podesta punted: ‘I have already told you that I was asked not to talk about specific questions, and I said I would respect that.'”