“… bogus from the beginning…”

RUSH: Hi, folks. This report is exactly what I thought it was gonna be, and it is being reacted to exactly as I thought it would be reacted to. There is no need for a 400-page report. There’s only one reason for a 400-page report, and that is to create the news environment that is occurring right now. This entire thing is bogus from the beginning.

But, no. I’ve had a chance to read some of this report today — by no means all of it, it’s 400 pages. And, my friends, I’m telling you, this report is made to order for the Democrat Party to ignore what is the only important thing about this: no collusion, no obstruction, period. That’s it!

Mueller even says in this report, “Congress still has the opportunity to find obstruction of justice.” Never mind Barr has looked at it, a lot of people looked at it, we don’t find any of this rises to the level of obstruction of justice. Doesn’t matter to the media, doesn’t matter to the Democrats. And then here’s old Bobby Mueller turning over the responsibility now to Congress.

But if you turn on cable news today — and it doesn’t matter what channel — all you’re going to get is ongoing discussions and reading of various excerpts from the report…

This report is just the latest installment of the ongoing effort to convince as many Americans as possible that Donald Trump is illegitimate, that his election was illegitimate, that he’s a bad guy and that he doesn’t deserve to be president. He may not have colluded with Russia, but he sure as hell tried to get in the way of our investigation.

Well, this is what happens when you lose elections, Democrats. You don’t get to set the agenda on things. The Justice Department does press conferences all the time announcing the results of investigations. They’re out there claiming that this thing was rigged from top to bottom. Barr is acting as Trump’s personal lawyer, ignoring for the fact that Eric Holder said a couple of times he was Barack Obama’s wingman. They applauded that, didn’t have any problem with that.

Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, these people are making fools of themselves, continuing now their belief that Trump did do something and no matter what Barr said today, this report is gonna prove it.

The Drive-Bys are really focusing on something in the report. Apparently one of Trump’s lawyers, Don McGahn, says that Trump told him he’s fed up. He’s fed up with Sessions, he’s ticked off at Sessions, he wants Sessions to go out there and denounce Mueller. And McGahn says that Trump told him to go fire Mueller but McGahn says I don’t want to do that because I don’t want to create another Saturday Night Massacre.

CNN claims Trump feeling screwed is admission of guilt!

Well, how about looking at it from Trump’s perspective. He knows he’s being set up here. He knows that he didn’t do what all of this is alleging day in and day out four or five times a day for two years in every media outlet in this country. He knows he didn’t do it. He knows they’re trying to run him out of office. He knows that in their term he’s innocent. What would you do in this circumstance?

But the bottom line is, Mueller wasn’t fired. So now they’ve gotta say, “Well, Trump wanted to. His intent was to obstruct.” I heard Jeffrey Toobin actually just say this. If you intend to obstruct justice, you may have well have obstructed justice. No, you don’t obstruct justice just by intending to.

Here’s Jake Tapper on CNN mere moments ago theorizing about why there were no obstruction of justice indictments. Wait ’til you hear this.

TAPPER: The reason why more White House aides or administration officials have not been themselves indicted or charged with obstruction of justice is because they ignored President Trump’s orders. President Trump could tell the White House counsel Don McGahn fire Robert Mueller, Don McGahn said to himself “no,” and therefore Don McGahn is a free man.

The same thing with Corey Lewandowski or any number of other individuals named in the Mueller report is that the way that all these administration officials preserved their freedom and are not in jail right now or at least charged and in court right now is because they refused to carry out the orders that President Trump demanded of them.

RUSH: So you see how this is gonna work. What the hell is that? This is manufacturing crimes where none occurred and none are alleged.

By the way, little Pencil Neck is still out there today claiming he’s got evidence of Russian collusion. At some point when does somebody demand that Pencil Neck produce it?

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