The Deep State’s Original Purpose Was to Rein In Trump
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RUSH: Things are starting to come into a little bit more focus, and for some of you it may have already been in focus. We’ll find out. … What is coming into focus is the Mueller investigation and what its real purpose is. And we have learned this because CNN, of all places — on their website — has revealed that there was a pre-Mueller investigation that was launched by the FBI and Andrew McCabe, and we know now the actual reason for it. And I’m gonna give you the big news and then work backwards on this.
Apparently, if we can trust what’s out there today and if we can believe it — and I think there’s something to this, simply because there isn’t any evidence of Trump colluding with Russia at all. It just didn’t happen. The upshot of everything is that all of this has been not to find Trump guilty, not to find … But the real purpose has been to just rein Trump in and stop him, to keep him sidetracked, to keep him obstructed, to keep him confused, to keep him unable to advance his agenda, to keep his staff in constant turmoil.
It has basically been a deep state plot to prevent Donald Trump from being Donald Trump, to prevent Donald Trump from having any kind of success with his agenda at all, with the added bonus being that along the way they can create the idea that Trump stole something like an election or is a thug-criminal and bad guy. But all of it — and it’s an important distinction, because they started all this knowing full well there wasn’t any crime here. There wasn’t any crime mentioned when Mueller was appointed, which violates Justice Department regulations.
Now, this has been leaked to CNN, which would be qualified as friendly media.
Their point from the get-go has been to deny Donald Trump his presidential powers, constitutional powers. It has been to deny Donald Trump his agenda, to deny Donald Trump the staff that he wants to put together, to make sure that there are constant people around Trump that will leak back to them. And, as I say, the primary source for this today is a very lengthy CNN piece. Now, you might be saying, “Come on, Rush! CNN?
“Don’t tell me all of a sudden you’re gonna start believing CNN.” It’s not that I believe CNN. It’s that I believe this story and that I believe that people at CNN would be in the leak chain to get this story, and the whole point of this story is that a Trump investigation began long before Mueller’s did! And that’s what this story is about.
Here is another take on the CNN story today about what actually has been going on here. “FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reportedly launched an obstruction of justice investigation into President Donald Trump prior to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. CNN reported Thursday evening that in the days following Comey’s ouster in May 2017, McCabe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and other leading FBI officials met to discuss how to curb [Trump] from future actions they thought would add to the turmoil at the FBI.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos. I believe the CNN story is simply the left trying to get out in front of the Mueller report that will have exactly zero, zip, nada in it for the leftists.
RUSH: You think it’s gonna have zero, zip, nada in it?
CALLER: (crosstalk) CNN doesn’t have a shred of credibility for their reporting.
RUSH: I’m not… So follow me through on this. What is this CNN report to you, then?
CALLER: This is really good news. This is the Mueller report really does not have anything in it, and now this is the left trying to change the narrative saying, you know, “Yeah, it doesn’t have anything in it, and we knew that and we reported that.”
RUSH: Okay. So —
CALLER: There’s nothing in it for them. It’s a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking. They have zero in this report on Trump.
RUSH: Okay. So the purpose of the CNN report by announcing there was an even earlier investigation of Trump that was started by FBI, and it’s where Rosenstein thought to wear a wire, this is going to help the fact that there’s no substance to the Mueller report how?
CALLER: Yes! It’s just a pivot, Rush. They’re gonna say, “That’s what it was never about. This was about Trump and what a rotten person he is, and this helped us get there,” and keep in mind that the left has a ton invested in this report. They’re singing songs about it on Saturday Night Live about what their hopes and dreams are for this report. It’s gonna be real comeuppance when this report comes out and it’s got no collusion charges. (crosstalk)
RUSH: Well, now, I think, there’s a lot of truth to that.
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