Nuke the False Premise that Trump Colluded with Russia to Steal the Election

Mueller Is Conducting Political Opposition Research

RUSH: Well, here we go again, folks, back into surreal territory. We’ve got a breaking story that the Drive-By Media thinks finally closes the loop on Trump-Russia collusion. They can barely contain themselves. But it’s as though the previous two years never happened. If what is the big news is today, the previous two years never happened. So in trying to unpack this and explain it to you, I want to begin with a question.

I’m serious about this. When you hear the term “Russian collusion” or “Trump collusion with Russia on the election,” when you hear any reference to the story — and I want to you to think back the entire two years. I want you to remember how your mind has been shaped on this, because this is the purpose of this exercise.

I want you to go back and remember shortly after the election when the New York Times and the Washington Post and CNN every day had at least one story and maybe more featuring unnamed sources from the intelligence community. And they were leaking, they were implying that there was deep collusion between the Trump campaign, maybe Trump himself personally and Russia, for the purposes of what? Stealing an election, for the purposes of sabotaging Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, for the purposes of winning the presidency.

And it went like this for months every day. There were multiple stories featuring sources unnamed in the intelligence community! And every story buried a line somewhere in it, usually beyond the halfway point, “To this point there’s no evidence to suggest any of these allegations, but we continue to investigate.” They threw that line in there because there was never any evidence of anything.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. When you hear the term “collusion” or “Russian collusion” or “Trump collusion,” “Trump campaign collusion,” what do you think of? I’m not suggesting you’re falling for it, don’t know misunderstand. I’m trying to get you to recall how the news affected you. What did you think they were trying to make you think, with all of these stories that now mount up to two years and counting?

The purpose of the news reports the last two years has been to convince as many people as possible that Trump had an ongoing secret relationship with the Russians — could have been with Putin, could have been anybody — and the purpose of this ongoing relationship was to win the 2016 election using sabotage from the Russians to harm the campaign of Mrs. Clinton. Is this basically not what they tried to make us all think happened? Is that not what collusion was said to mean?

The point is, it was an ongoing project, …

Now, to prove to you that my take on this is correct, I simply point you to the latest polling data from The Economist-YouGov poll which showed 42% of the American people believe Russians tampered with votes! That is what collusion with Russia has come to mean to the American people, precisely because that is how the story was reported.

That is the attempt the media was making to shape public opinion, to shape thinking on this, that Trump had an ongoing relationship with the Russians and that the Russian collusion involved WikiLeaks, and it involved hacking the DNC server, and it involved who knows what all.

Well, that’s what the collusion was. And the Russians were hacking the DNC server and the Russians were hacking Podesta’s emails and the Russians were hacking this and hacking that, and yet nobody has yet to prove the Russians hacked anything. The Democrats wouldn’t let the FBI see their server that they said had been hacked.

So what’s the news today? The news today is that Michael Cohen is expected to plead guilty to lying to Congress in collusion probe. Gave 70 hours of interviews to special counsel. That would be Robert Mueller.

So where is the collusion? Where is the tampering with the votes? Where is the tampering with ballot boxes and polling places? Where is all of this two years of Trump strategizing? And don’t forget Trump hired a bunch of prostitutes to urinate on Obama’s bed in Moscow. Where is all of this stuff?

We’re down now to a collusion charge essentially over one meeting, and Cohen claims Trump knew about it, Trump claims he didn’t know about it. Even if he did know about it, where is the collusion that they have tried to make all of us think happened?

Where is the tampering of votes? Where is the meetings? Where is the strategy? Where is the evidence that Trump got together with Russians to sabotage the Hillary campaign? Which is what everybody has been led to believe happened here. And now we’re down to a disagreement over a meeting in Trump Tower on June the 9th of 2016. That’s all this is about today.

Remember Rosenstein: No Vote Counts or Election Results Were Changed.

Now, if you think I’m a little bit histrionic, I am. This stuff… I cannot tell you how this aggravates me. This is the criminal justice system. This is what we have all been raised and led to believe is where justice happens, where reality trumps any other attempt. We’ve all been led to believe that the Justice Department is above and beyond corruption, and we have come to find out that’s not the case whatsoever by virtue of the fact that this investigation itself has no basis in fact anywhere.

Grab audio sound bite No. 18. I want you to hear Jerome Corsi. He was on Hannity last night. And as you listen to this, the big news today is that Cohen has flipped, Cohen admitted he lied to Congress, and he’s now telling Mueller the truth and that Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting before and after January, 2016, da-da-da-da.

I want you to listen to Corsi. Corsi is refusing to play ball with Mueller. Hannity asked him last night, “Give me an example of that. What was the Mueller team telling you that they wanted you to say? What did they want to hear?”

CORSI: They wanted to hear that I had a source connected to Assange or I did some way had a direct contact with Assange so they could do the connection, which would go Roger Stone, Jerry Corsi, Assange, and then they’d have their basis for collusion. It was complete nonsense. But they would not accept when I told them that, in fact, I never met Assange. I had no contact with Assange or intermediaries.

HANNITY: You never had any contact with Julian Assange or WikiLeaks?

CORSI: Absolutely none.

HANNITY: Never?

CORSI: Never.

he purpose of the exercise here is to understand what Mueller is doing so that we can get a read on where they are going with this. This Cohen thing, for as sleazy a character as he is, this is not an idle, random guilty plea. There is a strategy here. And since they cannot prove what they have alleged the past two years — they can’t prove hacking, they can’t prove Trump colluded, they can’t prove the Russians stole the election from Hillary, they can’t prove anything they led us to believe was happening.

Now they have to try to establish collusion in some other way, and this Trump Tower meeting and its timeline is the one example, the one and only example of collusion. Even if Trump met with somebody in Moscow to build a building, even if the meeting in Trump Tower, he knew about it or didn’t know about it, the fact the meeting happened has nothing to do with collusion and affecting the outcome of an election. Collusion isn’t a crime.

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