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October 31, 2016, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Making the complex understandable.
That's what we do here.
And despite that, people still get it wrong, which means they have to be doing it on purpose.
Details are coming up.
But along the lines of making the complex understandable, what is all this really about?
What is what is all anybody wants to know?
Is this gonna have an effect on the election?
That's all anybody wants to know.
And I'm gonna tell you yes.
And if you don't believe that, just listen to the Democrats.
If you don't think this is gonna have an impact on the election, listen to Democrats.
You've got Dingy Harry out there reviving a technique of his in 2012.
Dingy Harry's got another friend.
And this time the friend said that Comey is breaking the hatch act.
That James Comey's breaking the law by doing what he's doing.
Dingy Harry has a friend who told him this.
Comey is not breaking the law.
He's not breaking the hatch act.
Now look, I'm gonna get into all of this because it's fun.
But the bottom line is everybody wants to know.
I played golf yesterday and over the weekend, and it's only wants it gonna have any impact on the election.
Of course it is.
Of course it is.
And as I say, all you have to know, all you have to do to know that is listen to the Democrats caterwall and whine and moan.
Why, it was just a couple months ago that James Comey was the greatest FBI director ever.
It was just a couple months ago that James Comey was a paragon of virtue, a paragon of integrity.
And now look.
I guess none of that was true.
I guess it's not operative any longer.
They are worried to death on the Hillary side.
They've nominated somebody that's under constant FBI investigation.
And there are four different investigations into the Clinton Foundation.
Do not doubt me when I tell you that within the inner circles of the Democrat Party, they are very worried about this.
Even if she gets elected, they're very worried about it.
Because what it portends for her presidency.
This woman is is corrupt.
She and her husband are constantly engaged in things that place them under investigation.
For 30 years.
This is what you get with the Clintons because of the way the Clintons operate.
And Mrs. Clinton, let me just spell it out for you before I I want to get started on Trump.
Trump is targeting blue states.
Saw that last night and bells and whistles went off.
That's fascinating to me that Trump said because wasn't it just last week we heard that Hillary was going into the red states?
Yeah, what did that mean?
That meant it was so bad for Trump that Hillary's going in there to close it out and wrap up the down ballot vote for the House and the Senate.
Now Trump's in the blue states.
You don't think it matters.
Stand by, but why are we where we are?
As for the election, Mrs. Clinton, Hillary Clinton is under this cloud of suspicion, not because of the FBI, not because of James Comey.
Hillary Clinton is where she is precisely because of her own behavior.
Hillary Clinton is under investigation because of her own egregious misconduct.
My friend Andy McCarthy used to work at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District Manhattan.
You know, tried the blind shake, lead lawyer.
Targets, persons of interest, subjects, generally have no right to know whether an investigation's open or closed.
They have no right to know, either then or now.
Mrs. Clinton's demanding that Comey come forward and produce everything.
Of course she would love to know.
She has no right to know.
No suspect has a right to know.
Prosecution doesn't have to lay out all the cards on the table before you go to trial.
She has No right to know it now.
She had no right to know it then, like any other criminal suspect, which is what she is, along with Huma Abaddon and Wiener, 650,000 emails, folks.
Joint emails on a joint computer.
Can you imagine those FBI agents and they're dealing with Hoomer's Hoomer and Wiener's computer?
Man, how many pairs of latex gloves did they have to wear in order to be investigating?
In fact, we have, ladies and gentlemen, our cameras and microphones are everywhere, and we have a behind the scenes at the FBI just dealing with this very thing.
I guess we're not ready for it.
Never mind.
We'll get to it later.
I've just finished my thought here.
Uh that the Democrat Party could have nominated anybody, but they stay they stuck with Hillary Clinton because they owed her.
You know the drill on that.
They chose, in other words, to nominate the subject of a criminal investigation.
This criminal investigation has been going on for a long time.
Not just the emails, but the Clinton Foundation.
The Democrat, this is all on the Democrats.
Everything they are facing today is all on them.
Comey is not to blame.
Now speaking of how things turn around, you remember how up until Friday, Comey was probably the most beloved hero of the news media and the rest of the Democrat Party.
And now, now his name is worse than Mud.
And a lot of people are reminding us, you know, frankly, I had forgotten about this.
I wonder how many of you had forgotten.
In 2000 in 1992, George H.W. Bush facing Clinton.
And a week before that election, Casper Weinberger was indicted by Lawrence Walsh, a special prosecutor, and the timing was totally manufactured and totally suspicious, and nothing ever came of it.
But you had a member of the Bush cabinet, Casper Weinberger, indicted by a Democrat special prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, and there is no question that that had a tremendous impact on the election.
But the Democrats running around saying all this is unprecedented, it's undemocratic, we don't tamper with the elections prior to elections like this.
We did the Democrats do all this and more.
In fact, this is a little bit of tit for tat.
A lot of uh roosters are coming home, chickens coming home to roost here, as far as the Democrats are concerned.
Okay, now let's go back to last Friday, because I need to do a little housekeeping here.
This is an object lesson.
On this program, we were here when the news broke that the FBI had reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton and her emails.
At the time, news was scarce.
It was just beginning to be reported.
And we were, like everybody else, trying to put everything together with every little morsel that we learned.
And it caught everybody off guard.
Everybody was taken aback because we were of the impression the election or the uh the investigation had been closed, and that there was nothing to be found.
We we all were under the impression, those of us on our side, that everything that happened in that regard was odd.
FBI directors don't do what Comey did.
They don't go out and lay out a case and then and then publicly announce the recommendation not to prosecute.
Everything that Comey has done in this case usually happens behind the scenes without cameras and microphones present.
It was making that point.
Then we started wondering what does this mean?
What do they have?
What have they found?
Uh, because Comey had previously behaved in such a way as to make it look like he had been intimidated by Lynch and by Obama to sweep this thing away.
One of the uh many theories people evolved was well, this is a smokescreen, this is a distraction to take people's attention away from other things.
I got an email from a Friend, and I read his theory, and I then announced the cynic's view.
And if I'm if I said once, I said ten times that this is not my interpretation, this is not my theory, this is what the cynic would say.
This is what a cynic would say.
And that theory is that all of this is trumped up, that none of it's real, that the investigation is simply a distraction, nothing's gonna come of it.
The express purpose of it is to take WikiLeaks off the news, off the front page, off the lead item in newscasts, because it was getting hot and heavy.
WikiLeaks was finally penetrating.
It was getting through to people, and it was about the Clinton Foundation and how the Clintons got filthy rich off of their own charity.
And it featured emails from Chelsea Clinton to a guy named Doug Band.
And what happened was that Chelsea was complaining what Band was doing, or what the foundation was doing was looking like people were being hustled.
And Band took it personally.
He said, Don't blame me, your dad's doing all this too.
That was in the WikiLeaks emails.
Your dad's doing all this.
And then he laid out the things that Bill Clinton had been doing.
Or had asked him to do.
And one of the examples that Band gave, he called Coca-Cola, and he asked for a donation of uh whatever it was, three and a half million dollars to the Clinton Family Foundation, and then suggested that Coca-Cola hire Bill Clinton for another three million dollars in change per year as a consultant.
So they make a donation and they hire Clinton per, and then Dan was detailing how other donors would be hit up to hire Hillary to give speeches and so forth, and all of it was breaking out.
Then the Comey announcement comes, and naturally for the whole weekend, WikiLeaks is forgotten.
There's now been another document dump from WikiLeaks today, by the way, and it's bad for Donna Brazil.
It appears that Donna Brazil has been feeding questions to Hillary from CNN regularly and for a long time.
That's in the latest WikiLeaks email dump.
So everybody is offering their own theories as to what this Comey announcement means and what impact it might have on the election.
And I shared with people a theory that was offered and given to me by a friend of mine who's a huge cynic, a know it-all cynic.
And this, and the theory was that there's nothing here, nothing's gonna happen, there is no further information that's going to be produced by the FBI that is damaging to Hillary.
All this is a diversion to distract people's attention from what is becoming killer data, killer information in the WikiLeaks dump.
Even do it.
My morning update today on that very thing.
I began the morning update by saying I do not subscribe to this, but this is a cynic's view.
Well, lo and behold, on Friday night, my email starts blowing up.
And my brother says Twitter is blowing up by Perez that people are assigning that cynic view to me, that I actually owned it and announced it as my own on my program on Friday.
And people were cackling and being critical and comparing me to conspiracy cooks and nutcases that such a theory is insane, it's absurd, and the fact that it was never my theory, and I stated clearly, if I said it once, it had to be a minimum of five times, that it's a cynic's view, not mine.
So the people who reported it as mine had to know and had to do it on purpose.
It would simply be impossible for them not to know.
All they would have had to do is go to my website, read one little sentence or passage of me prefacing the theory by assigning it to where it came from, an email from a cynic, a friend of mine is an arrogant, know it all cynic.
And yet they ran with it.
Well, I don't know who they is, I'm not on my email was blowing up, I guess a lot of people in the network, even Fox and TV in LA.
We've got Some sound bites to deal with this just to show you.
And I just I just want to clean all this up because it's an object lesson.
I didn't say it, but they think I did, or they want you to think that I did.
We will start with uh, and there's this there's many examples.
This is just we have uh what is this KTTV, Eyeball News LA, Good Day LA, the co-host Steve Edwards speaking to a Republican strategist John Thomas about me and my supposed take on Comey reopening the investigation into Hillary's private server, and they had this little conversation.
Okay, well, I guess we don't.
It's number three.
There's all kinds of conspiracy theories going around about everything now.
Rush Limbaugh has suggested, and Rush carries a lot of weight among Republicans, has suggested that Comey did this to draw attention away from the release of WikiLeaks.
I believe that was from Rush.
I don't buy that.
And remember, there are a lot more WikiLeaks to come uh every day.
This isn't what Hillary Clinton wants in the home stretch.
All right.
And so there's that's just one of many examples.
The next Fox News, and this was Sunday on Fox News channel Fox and Friends Weekend, and they had Peter Schweitzer on, the author of Clinton Cash, and they asked him to react to a sound bite of mine.
Listen to the soundbite that they take out of context and leave out how I set it up.
Comey is just doing this to take everybody's attention off of the WikiLeaks email dump.
The WikiLeaks scandal right now is starting to hurt because it's exposing the fraud and the hustling and the collusion, the corruption is going on at the Clinton Foundation.
So that was taken totally out of content.
Now it could well be that by the time you get to producers at Fox and Friends Weekend, they have no idea.
They're just getting it second or third hand.
Uh but whoever originally got this wrong got it wrong on purpose.
How many times?
How many times did I attribute this to where it was from?
A sinning.
Not multiple, multiple times.
And yet people ignored that and attributed this to me and assigned it to it's that's that's the kind of conspiracy thinking it's just silly.
That's just irrelevant kind of theory and so forth.
Peter Schweitzer even answered the question.
They had him uh react to the bite that they played, that out of context clip, and this is number uh five.
That's exactly right.
People want to say, okay, you've got this email scandal, and then you've got the Clinton Foundation scandal.
Uh but the bottom line is why did they set up this private server?
Why did they need a private means of communication that you could not access through the Freedom of Information Act?
And the reason is you needed the server to communicate about the flow of money, the pay-to-play related to the Clinton Foundation.
So I don't think you can separate the two.
I think it's all together and part of what I called in the book the Clinton blur.
Their tendency to blur everything together, government service, money making, philanthropy, etc.
Okay.
So just I just wanted you to hear Schweitzer's reaction to it just to get his thoughts on it.
But I just I wanted to get the record set as quickly as I could here in the opening of the program for what good it meant.
It's either that or people just don't listen.
It could just people just don't listen.
Because I could not, could not have been more clear about it.
But it is what it is.
Anyway, it's got the record now.
Quick timeout, back in just a sec.
And we're back.
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New York Times, I'm sorry, Washington Post headline, Clinton aid, Huma Abaddon has told people she doesn't know how her emails wound up on her husband's computer.
All right, forget the substance of that.
This to me indicates that there's something serious going on here.
For Huma to be telling people she doesn't know how her emails wound up on her husband's.
It's different from saying there's nothing there.
There's nothing to see.
And I I don't I but instead she's saying, I don't know how my emails ended up on his computer.
This guy that she was or still, I guess, is married to is just a creep.
This guy, you want nowhere near anything serious.
And apparently he has as much knowledge of what she's doing as he as she does.
And this has got to have that campaign in an absolute uproar over how this could have happened.
But instead of her going out and saying, there's nothing there.
I don't care what they think they've got, Hillary, there's nothing there.
Instead, she's saying, I mean, I don't know, I don't know how my emails wound up bummed.
Dog ate my homework type of stuff here.
There is something here.
Has to be based on Huma's reaction to it.
A question, Mr. Snerdley.
Why do you think so many people find it necessary to distort what I say?
And it's beginning to happen more and more among so-called right wing or friendly so-called conservative sites.
Why do you think that's necessary?
Why is it necessary to distort what I say?
Uh well.
Oh, you think that's what it is.
I don't I don't I don't want to share his answer, folks.
His answer is it's tied to people having grudges.
Um my point is, if if what I say is so outrageous and so terrible, and so why not just report what I say?
Why have to distort what I say?
Oh, they can't report what I say because then they'd have nothing to say themselves.
Well, this is what I meant and what I have meant, folks, when I have said for the last recent number of years that there's an internecine fight on the right.
We can't even unify around the concept of defeating Democrats anymore because conservatism is too busy trying to take itself out, essentially.
Uh and it makes no sense whatsoever.
Democrats cast aside whatever dev disagreements they have and unify around the concept of turning us into dust.
In fact, speaking of that, do you know this columnist for the Miami Herald named Leonard Pitts?
Does his name ring a bell?
He's syndicated.
He's running, he runs in the Baltimore Sun and number of other places.
Leonard Pitts wrote a piece over the weekend, I think.
I don't know when he wrote it.
It was sent to me on Saturday.
I don't know when it, but it's recent, in which he said, I don't want the Republican Party just defeated.
I want them destroyed.
I want them immolated, I want them grounded to dust.
I want them to not exist after this election.
Thank God for Leonard Pitts.
Leonard Pitts just honestly happened to portray the exact mindset of the entire Democrat Party in his column.
That is exactly what they want.
We can't even unify around the concept of beating them, much less emulating them or grinding them into dust.
We can't even unite around.
We have to, we're too busy trying to distort what various members of our so-called own club have to say.
It's just, it's mind-boggling.
But again, I don't know why anybody would find it necessary to distort what I say if it's so bad to begin with.
I think they have to distort what I say in order to construct ways in which to disagree with me or to otherwise impugn my honor and integrity.
But this was kind of blatant.
The left didn't do this.
I mean, this is this our so-called buddies on the right purposely taking full out of context what I said on purpose.
It had to be on purpose because I prefaced this way too many times for what it was.
Peter Thiel, perhaps the lone Silicon Valley billionaire who is supporting Donald Trump.
And Peter Thiel is taking his lumps in Silicon Valley.
As you know, I read a lot of tech blogs, and they hate Peter Thiel.
These are young millennial tech journalists who all believe in climate change, who all believe in practically whatever any Democrat anywhere has to say, they all believe it.
I mean, they're robots.
They have been mind-numbed through their education and just accept Peter Thiel, therefore, is a standout and they stand alone.
And, full disclosure, I have met and chatted with Peter Thiel.
One time, Conrad Black and I found ourselves at the same dinner party, and we ended up discussing world events, focusing on the future of the United States and China as it was that night with uh with Peter Thiel, and I found him to be brilliant and engaging, and I was stunned when I got to this place that he was conservative Republican.
I was stunned that he was not a leftist, let me put it that way.
Whatever he is, maybe he's libertarian, I don't know.
But I was stunned to surprise out that he find out that he was not a leftist.
So he's at the National Press Club today, trying to bring it home for Trump.
He spoke at the Republican National Convention.
And two sound bites here.
I want to see what you think of the.
I think these are these are he's the co-founder PayPal.
I think it would be helpful to point that out.
Co founder PayPal, and he's um an investor in many like-minded uh industries and businesses in Silicon Valley.
So here's the first of the two bites.
I don't agree with everything Donald Trump has said and done.
And I don't think the millions of other people voting for him do either.
Nobody thinks his comments about women were acceptable.
But I don't think the voters pull the lever in order to endorse a candidate's flaws.
It's not a lack of judgment that leads Americans to vote for Trump.
We're voting for Trump because we judge the leadership of our country to have failed.
This judgment has been hard to accept for some of the country's most fortunate, socially prominent people.
It's certainly been hard to accept for Silicon Valley, where many people have learned to keep quiet if they dissent from the coastal bubble.
Now, this, uh folks, this is right on the money.
This explains every Trump supporter.
You know, the the media and a lot of uh nose out of joint Republicans, and even a lot of nose out of joint conservatives are wandering around trying to figure out why this reprogate, right?
Why this this this coarse, this this braggart, this bombastic, this this is rough around the edge.
Why is why this guy with no character, why do so many people support him, and Thiel nails it here?
And it's true for everybody supporting Trump.
They're not endorsing Trump because of his flaws.
His flaws don't matter right now because people have judged the current leadership of the country to have failed and failed big, and they show no signs of even realizing they've failed.
The people opposing Trump, both in the Republican and Democrat Party, do not sense a crisis.
How many times have we discussed this?
They do not sense a country off the rails, because for them it isn't.
They do not have to live with any of the conditions their policies create.
They do not, they're not worried about the unemployment rate, it'll never affect them.
They're not worried about open borders immigration, it doesn't affect them.
Their kids are not going to be around the people that commit crimes who have crossed the border illegally.
They are not going to be confronted by it.
They live in protected enclaves in large part, but most of the policy, the Obamacare, it doesn't matter to them.
They have their own workarounds for this.
Taxes, Obamacare, uh jobs, manufacturing whatever it is, they have purposely insulated themselves.
It's it's a it's a fact that people have slowly come to realize that people in Washington create rules for the rest of the country for which they exempt themselves or from which they exempt themselves.
So there's two sets of rules here.
And the people Running the country right now are seen as having failed big time.
Not only that, not only have they failed, they have lied during campaigns.
They have led voters to believe they do understand the problem, and they do think the country is at a crossroads crisis.
And they have led people to believe that they're going to work hard to say close the borders and have immigration make sense.
It's going to be legal, that they're going to get Obamacare fixed, health care fixed, and nothing ever happens.
It's just words.
And they have listened to these words for one election cycle too many now.
And here finally is a chance to blow it up.
The Trump, and I have maintained from the beginning, from all the way back in the primaries.
I I I spent I don't know how many hours combined trying to explain to people why Trump had the support that he has, who the people were supporting him, and why they could not be peeled off from him.
Why, no matter what they tried to take Trump's supporters and get them to abandon him, it didn't work.
I've spent I don't know how many hours trying to explain.
Donald Trump exists, not because America has descended to the gutter culturally or socially and finds a reality TV star to be more genuine than a politician.
Donald Trump has ascended to the position he holds because the people who have been in power are taking the country down the tubes and in the wrong direction, and there's no way people have tried every which way they think, using the Democrat process, to stop it.
They've voted, they have donated, they've tried to raise money, but the IRS has come along and shut some of them down, as you well know.
So the voters are just fed up with the fact that they are betters, the elites, the ruling class, the establishment, they just don't see the country as most people have to live it.
And so Trump represents an opportunity to change the leadership of the country simply because it's failed.
It has failed, and it will continue to fail if it doesn't change, because it's the same people with the same kind of thinking.
Here's the next bite from people.
For a long time, our elites have been in the habit of denying difficult realities.
That's how bubbles form.
Nobody would suggest that Donald Trump is a humble man.
But the big things he's right about amount to a much needed dose of humility.
Just as much as it's about making America great, Trump's agenda is about making America a normal country.
A normal country doesn't have a half-trillion dollar trade deficit.
A normal country doesn't fight five simultaneous undeclared wars.
In a normal country, the government actually does its job.
See how simple this is?
Things are not normal.
This is not the way America is supposed to work.
It's no more complicated than that.
He could have added any number of things here to define normal country.
A normal country does not have health care priced beyond the vast majority of the population's ability to afford it.
The normal country does not have 94 million Americans not working.
Almost half the adult population is not working.
That's not normal.
And when you, if you want to delve into the culture, then it's really not normal.
Now, TEL didn't go there, but a lot of people do when they make these assessments.
It's not working.
This is not how it's supposed to work.
It's not normal.
The leadership and the leadership consists of not it's not political parties.
It's not an indictment of Democrats only or Republicans only, it's the establishment ruling class of Washington that is properly seen as the leadership of the nation.
And they're failing.
And not only are things abnormal, they're getting worse.
There's no indication that anybody there understands.
What needs to be improved, much less how to do it.
Quick time out, my friends.
We got more when we come back.
Don't go away.
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No, it's very clear to me.
Let me repeat this.
This Washington Post headline.
Uh, and it's from two days ago.
Clinton aid Huma Abaddon has told people she doesn't know how her emails wound up at her husband's computer.
Folks, that's all we need to know that it's serious.
If there was nothing on her husband's computer, if these 650,000 emails, whatever number of emails, if there's nothing to see there, Huma Abaddon would be telling people.
There's nothing there.
They can look all they want.
There's nothing on there.
I told the truth.
I got rid of everything of mine.
If this is my husband's, I haven't the slightest idea what's on there, but I'm not worried.
She didn't say any of that.
She's out there telling people she doesn't know how her emails wound up on her husband's computer.
Now what they're trying to do with this, this is the dead giveaway.
That Washington Post headline tells me that the Democrats, a Hillary campaign, is trying to use Huma's alleged cluelessness as a decoy.
It's it's it's not just to portray Huma as an innocent victim of Carlos danger.
It's to remove her intent to commit crimes.
That's what they're trying to do.
Well, I didn't know how to be.
The headline is an admission by the Clinton crime family that what the FBI has is real and just as damning as Comey's letter implies.
And what it could be, we don't know.
It could be she's committed perjury.
She told the FBI she had given them everything.
She told the FBI she had destroyed everything.
Now they've found who knows what.
And her answer is, I got rid of it all.
There's nothing.
I don't care what they've got, it's nothing.
No, her answer is I don't know how those in wheels ended up on my husband's computer.
Yeah, I know how to read between the lines here.
So we have, let's take a look at what we've got here and look at what the American voter should be made aware of.
We've got this deviant.
Anthony Wiener and his unsecured laptop, which may have, most likely does have, classified State Department data on it.
And this is a guy who's been sexting with teenage girls.
From everything from a blackmail risk to just absolute reprobate behavior.
This guy has had access to who and who knows a guy like this sexting with teenagers.
One of the things guys like this like to do is really impress young people with what they know and how inside they are.
Who knows what this guy's blabbed.
Then we have WikiLeaks.
And all of the information we're learning about the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, we've got Hillary's illegal server, and we know the President of the United States lied.
When he said he didn't know about it till we all found out in the news, he was communicating with her on what he knew to be an illegal surfer by using a fake name.
Obama has been reduced to a liar.
This is what happens to people who come in contact with the Clintons.
Nothing good happens to most of them.
And Clinton and her illegal behaviors now snared Obama for whatever reason.
Then we've got Obamacare, which is just an abject disaster.
That was also presented with a series of major serious lies.
Like your doctor keep him, like your plan, keep it.
Premium's gonna come down $2,500.
None of it was true.
Every bit of it has been a giant lie for the sake of getting it passed.
The voters need to know as much as possible about this, and thank goodness Trump is carrying the water on it.
Now there's another WikiLeaks dumped today, bad for Donna Brazil.
It turns out she's been passing all kinds of questions to the Clinton campaign.
Get this CNN just announced that Donna Brazil will not be coming back.
Quote, we are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned.
Well, let's see if that discomfort continues in what they learn about Hillary then.
Need to check something.
Didn't CNN, when this whole thing came up about Brazil, passing questions to Hillary, didn't CNN say that that was impossible because they hadn't shared the questions with her?
I need to check into that.
This is this is great, actually, what's happening.
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