RUSH: I want to explain something. You probably have heard that Robert Mueller has the supremo reputation, of all the people inside the Beltway, of all the people in the establishment, he is beyond reproach. Robert Mueller is not tainted by bias in any direction. He’s the essence of pure fairness, objectivity, and decency.
The attorney general at the time was John Ashcroft. He was in the hospital with pancreatitis. That’s a disease that can be fatal and for which the only treatment is not eating. You can look it up. Ashcroft was not well. There was a section of the Patriot Act that Bush was insistent on including warrantless wiretap searches of known and suspected terrorists. Comey was the deputy attorney general. He was not Saint Comey yet. He was the deputy AG, and he and Mueller went to Ashcroft’s hospital room and forced Ashcroft to sign an indictment that they sponsored opposing Bush on warrantless wiretaps.
That’s all it took. All you had to do to gain the approval of the swamp is to go in there and stand up to George W. Bush, and that’s what Mueller and that’s what Comey did. And Mueller’s reputation since then, impeccable, unassailable, said to be straight down the middle, the guy has run the FBI. He’s run the CIA. I don’t think so. But he’s capable of running all these things.
So that’s the origin of his untouchable, unblemished, unpockmarked, except for his varicose veins, which you wouldn’t want to see an aerial shot of. It’s the only thing that gives the guy any color. That’s way back in 2002, 2001, whenever Ashcroft was ill at the time. And that reputation has survived.
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