RUSH: I don’t know how you can say first and foremost. But one of the items is the firing of Andrew McCabe and the fact that he is not losing his pension.
Andrew McCabe was not fired by anything Donald Trump had anything to do with. Andrew McCabe was fired after an inspection, an investigation of the FBI and its handling of the Hillary Clinton email mess by the Office of Inspector General. The Office of Inspector General, the head of that agency, was appointed by Barack Obama.
And the original reason for the internal investigation of the FBI was because Obama and the Democrats were livid that Comey reopened the investigation late in October before the election. And what happened was, when the investigation got going, the inspector general in fact found something the exact opposite of what the Democrats expected to see. They found that McCabe had lied to investigators.
Now, in the process, McCabe was fired after both the inspector general and a review board within the FBI made the recommendation. Trump had nothing to do with it. Jeff Sessions had nothing to do with it, other than carrying it out. The media knows all of this. The media knows every syllable of what I just said to you. The media is making up that McCabe will lose his pension. He will not.
That’s not what he lost. He lost early access to some benefits. He did not lose his pension. But they were so successful at creating this fake news that various Democrat members of Congress were offering to hire the guy for three days so that he could qualify.
Now, here is a guy who has been found to lie by an Obama-appointed investigator, and the Democrats circle the wagons to protect this guy and to hold on to his pension, which they think is under threat. Meanwhile, over here, Michael Flynn has lost his house. Michael Flynn is broke, when he didn’t even lie to the FBI, according to the agent who interviewed him, who happens to be none other than Peter Strzok, who is best buds with Andrew McCabe.
Over here, Paul Manafort faces a year, perhaps a lifetime in jail as an out of control independent counsel is literally on a fishing expedition with no specific crime given. This special counsel is now inventing charges. He is inventing things to charge people with, such as conspiracy to defraud the United States. There is no such charge. He’s making it up. He is doing the work of the legislature.
If he has supposedly found all of these outrageous violations of existing law and statue, then why is he not charging these people with those instead of inventing something that doesn’t exist? And that’s because he thinks nobody’s gonna stop him. Because he is the man of impeccable integrity and reputation inside the Washington establishment.
Now, I think the media, after an initial sob story reaction to McCabe getting canned, they went overboard. I think they’re starting to pull back from this, because they’ve realized what I just told you. McCabe was fired, recommended to be fired by two independent agencies, one of them a Democrat appointed investigator by Obama for lying to FBI investigators.
And you want to know what else is interesting? I’m speaking rapidly here, folks. I’m trying to dial it back because there’s simply a lot to say here and my mouth is unable to keep up with my brain. So I’m gonna dial back the mouth here. Slow down a little bit. What people have begun to realize is that McCabe going public defending himself and denying this stuff has implicated Comey as having lied under oath about not leaking anything about the Trump investigation to the media or the Hillary investigation, because that’s what got McCabe in trouble. He did leak things to the media about FBI investigations and lied about that.
And when he went public, he said the director approved everything he was doing. Well, Comey testified under oath that he didn’t leak anything ever, no time, to nobody. And now McCabe is saying he leaked with the approval of the director. So Comey’s big book is coming out this week and McCabe may have inadvertently turned the tables on Comey.
So now the Drive-Bys, after an initial push on defending McCabe, are pulling back on it, I think, because even they realize there’s a big problem here. Michael Flynn is broke. Michael Flynn had to sell his house all for supposedly lying to the FBI about something that had nothing to do with Trump colluding with Russia and, again, for the umpteenth, gazillionth time, there wasn’t any of that.
But, meanwhile, the same people that are applauding Michael Flynn being destroyed are defending Andrew McCabe, including the Drive-By Media. So they’re pulling back.
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RUSH: Now, on the subject of McCabe losing his pension, this is from Forbes.com. The headline: “No, Andrew McCabe Is Not Losing his Pension … In fact, McCabe is all of 49 years old, likely 50 by the time readers see this,” meaning his birthday was, I guess, Sunday or today, whatever. “[W]hat he lost out on was … the ability to take his benefits at age 50, rather than somewhere between age 57 and age 62, and he lost his eligibility to a special top-up in benefit formula.
“These are, admittedly, tangible financial losses, but it is grossly misleading that” the Drive-By Media is giving “the general public the impression that he has lost his pension entirely.” He hasn’t, but maybe he should! Michael Flynn lost his house and is still paying! If there are gonna be two worlds where members of the swamp have no consequences or very few consequences compared to the rest of us when they violate the same laws, when they get caught in the same kind of behavior…
This is, in fact, one of the great benefits of the swamp is you are exempted, oftentimes, from the same consequences average Americans face in similar circumstances — and, of course, McCabe knew to go out and appeal to people. (sobbing) “I’ve been victimized! This is happening to me because of Trump and Russia investigation,” and it is not. This has nothing to do with that. This is Hillary’s email investigation and Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions were not part of this investigation. They didn’t order it. Obama did! It’s Obama people throughout this inspector general investigation of the FBI and the DOJ that ensnared McCabe.
