RUSH: We go to Powell, Ohio. Chris, it’s up to you to kick us off today, sir. Welcome, and how are you?
Obviously, what that says is that Comey had been shielding that relationship and they were worried that, if he was gone, and that went to a general investigation in the FBI, that all of this stuff that we’re now finding out would be uncovered. But, by instantly passing that over to Mueller, by creating that just absolutely phony special counsel and turning all of that investigation over to them, I think the hope there was to try to cover-up everything. That’s why it wasn’t ’til a month later that Rosenstein got around to even writing a —
RUSH: Okay. Let me jump in because we’re all over the board, and I haven’t brought this up yet; but you’re… Let me deal with this this way. The New York Times has a story today. Maybe it was over the weekend; I don’t recall when. But they’ve got a story that basically tries to position Bruce Ohr as a nobody, that he was just a low-level functionary that gets caught up in all this. I mean, the New York Times really has abandoned journalism. It is stunning. They literally abandoned journalism.
The FBI fired Steele because he lied to them and continued to leak to the media when the FBI had told him to stop. Bruce Ohr kept talking to him and kept dropping in news media hands what Steele was feeding him. Bruce Ohr is at the center of all of this, the aim of which is to get Trump. He’s not ancillary. He’s not secondary, as the New York Times is trying to make it look like he is in this story.
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