If You Want to End This, Mr. President, Start Pardoning
Apr 11, 2018
RUSH: Audio sound bite. I got two more here. And these are related to the point that I made yesterday that the real thing Trump could do, if he wants to stop this, is start pardoning people. If you really want to stop the investigation, if you want to stop the distraction — because, look, this investigation is bogus to begin with. It’s an investigation into Trump colluding with Russia to steal the election. It didn’t happen. Am I broken record on this or what? The only collusion is with the Hillary camp and the DNC and the Russians.
So this thing is a gigantic distraction. And it has one purpose, and that’s to get rid of Donald Trump. Firing people doing the investigation is not gonna stop the investigation. It’s just gonna transfer it to other people and probably extend it, because whoever replaces whoever gets fired has to start from square one getting up to speed. Firing these people is not gonna accomplish anything. But pardoning the people who have already copped a plea or are on trial soon or who are under investigation, you pardon people, that’s how you shut this down.
The media would go bat crazy, of course, but they’re already bat crazy each and every day. How much more bat crazy can they get? And they probably can. But at least you stop the thing that is aimed at bringing you down. And you take those people and you force them to start taking you out in different ways. You’re not gonna stop the establishment trying to take you out if you’re Trump. But you can stop this particular effort, this investigation in its tracks.
So having said that, here’s Dan Abrams. Dan Abrams used to be on MSNBC. He’s a lawyer. He’s the son of Floyd Abrams, noted First Amendment expert and lawyer. His website is Mediaite. Got a couple of others. He’s on Good Morning America today with the Clinton war room staffer George Stephanopoulos. And they’re getting worried about this because Stephanopoulos said to, “Do you think Trump would try to pardon Michael Cohen?â€
ABRAMS: I think that if Michael Cohen’s indicted, it’s not a question of if President Trump pardons him; it’s a question of when. I think that Michael Cohen is gonna feel very safe that if and when he is indicted, he will be pardoned either before the trial or after the trial, but at some point.
RUSH: Now, wait a minute, now. If he’s indicted. How many years is that down the road? Nobody’s in a hurry here. In fact, I would suspect that the investigators, everybody involved in trying to take Trump out is gonna try to tell get multiple weeks out of the raid alone. We may not hear another thing about this raid for a long time because of course they’ll have to sift through all the attorney-client privilege information, and they’ll have to determine which they can see and which they can’t see. And it’s gonna take a lot of time. It’s gonna require a lot of lawyers. And we may not hear any more about this other than leaks for a month or two.
An indictment? Cohen? We not gonna be anywhere near an indictment in this case anywhere this year! Unless the indictment is a week before the election. But Trump can pardon the guy any time he wants. Don’t have to wait for an indictment. I’m pretty sure. Let me double-check that. Here’s Kimberley Strassel making my point that I made yesterday. She’s on Fox News Channel Happening Now today, Jon Scott. This is right before noon today.
STRASSEL: I think the question that has to be asked is would it be helpful rather than counterproductive to go ahead and fire anybody in this train, and I cannot see in any situation where that would be the case. If you fire Jeff Sessions, he still has Rod Rosenstein who he’s been very critical. Firing Rod Rosenstein would cause an enormous uproar on Capitol Hill, likely in the Senate. And firing Bob Mueller, as Senator Rubio said, would simply result in another special counsel, who would finish the work.
RUSH: Right. Finish the work, but have to start at square one getting up to speed. “I don’t know what this case is really all about,†the new special counsel would say. “I only have media reports, I can’t go on that so I gotta go in –†And they just start it all over. Firing people, absolute wrong thing.
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