IG Report Proves There is a Deep State

RUSH: I made a prediction yesterday that the media would go on offense and try to mischaracterize this report, and they did. And you know how they did it? If you read the executive summary of the inspector general report, and if that’s all you read, you’re not gonna know anything.

You’re gonna think that this is a big pile of nothing. It’s stunning! You read the details of the report (chuckling), and you are prepared zero by reading the executive summary. There’s something really odd about this, because the executive summary does not summarize the real important details and discoveries in this report. It’s almost as though the executive summary is there for the media to focus on and highlight while ignoring the nuts and bolts in the effort to make this no big deal.

So now we go to a really odd couple of sound bites. Christopher Wray, the FBI director, did a press conference yesterday afternoon at 5:30 Eastern. Sound bite 1 from it here…

WRAY: I take this report very seriously, and we accept its findings and recommendations. (pause) It’s also important, though, to note what the inspector general did not find.

RUSH: See this?

WRAY: This report did not find —

RUSH: See?

WRAY: — any evidence of political bias.

RUSH: See?

WRAY: — or improper considerations actually impacting the investigation under review.

RUSH: See? I predicted it! The establishment will focus on what’s not in the report, and right there is the FBI director. Now, I know he’s gotta protect his agency and I know he’s gotta protect his people. But look: “To note what the inspector general did not find: The report did not find any evidence of political bias.” It most certainly did, if you go beyond the executive summary. In fact, the political bias and other kinds of bias are documented. I take that back. They are illustrated!

The truth is that there isn’t documented evidence of bias. By that… This is a trick, folks. This is a game. When the IG says, “There’s no evidence of bias,” what he’s saying is that he couldn’t find a piece of paper or an email or a text — from Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, any of them — that said, “We are Republican haters. We are Democrat lovers. We want Hillary to win. We want Trump to lose.” He said, “There is no documentary evidence,” and that is true.

But that’s a semantic word game. In the meat and potatoes of the report, the inspector general illustrates that there was bias against Donald Trump every day in the FBI and at the DOJ. It’s inescapable. But because there’s not in one little telltale, bombshell, smoking-gun memo, he can that there was “no political bias or improper consideration.” That’s just absolutely false.

At any rate, Lindsey Grahamnesty… You’ve gotta hears this, sound bite No. 24, CNN this morning. He’s talking to Kate Bolduan about the inspector general report. She asks him what is his takeaway.

GRAHAM: You’d be kidding yourself if you think this doesn’t do a lot of damage to the institutions that are now looking at the president. This gives a face, to many, of what the deep state it looks like. I’ve been saying there’s not a deep state. (chuckles) Then I look at this and I see the people who are conducting an investigation of one political candidate versus the other seem to have a very… Um, not just a political opinion, but a motivation. If you don’t believe that the average American is gonna think that the FBI is far more political than they ever believed, that’s crazy. J. Edgar Hoover’s spirit is alive and well in some corners of the FBI.

RUSH: All right. Now we’re supposed to go, “All right, all right, we’ve got a convert. ” How did he miss it? Senator Graham says, “After I saw that report, I now believe in the deep state.” He had to wait for the deep state to admit that it exists before he believed it?

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