On his radio program Thursday, Rush Limbaugh addressed the story that’s been consuming the media for the last 24 hours: Michael Cohen’s plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller related to discussions in 2016 of a “Moscow Trump Tower.” The latest developments and the media blitz over the “bombshell” plea deal prompted Limbaugh to ask his audience to step back and remember something Trump’s critics in the media want them to forget: What started off as an investigation into what we were led to believe was complex, wide-ranging, coordinated collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians has devolved into the nothingburger Trump Tower meeting and questions about Trump trying to work out a legal business deal in Moscow.
“When you hear the term ‘Russian collusion’ or ‘Trump collusion with Russia on the election,’ when you hear any reference to the story — and I want to you to think back the entire two years. I want you to remember how your mind has been shaped on this, because this is the purpose of this exercise,” said Limbaugh. “I want you to go back and remember shortly after the election when The New York Times and The Washington Post and CNN every day had at least one story and maybe more featuring unnamed sources from the intelligence community. And they were leaking, they were implying that there was deep collusion between the Trump campaign, maybe Trump himself personally and Russia, for the purposes of what? Stealing an election, for the purposes of sabotaging Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, for the purposes of winning the presidency.”
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