Trump Eviscerates Mueller Probe in CPAC Speech: 'They're Trying To Take You Out with Bulls***'
President Donald Trump’s keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday was pretty much a Rorschach test regarding how you feel about Trump at his Trumpiest.
It definitely wasn’t fed to him via a teleprompter, something that the president made clear from the very beginning.
“You know, I’m totally off script right?” Trump said at the beginning of the speech, according to The Washington Post. “This is how I got elected, by being off script . . . and if we don’t go off script, our country is in big trouble, folks.”
And given that there wasn’t a script, there were also plenty of moments that likely had the more staid members of his administration and the Republican Party in fits — particularly when it came to the Mueller probe.
“They fight so hard on this witch hunt, this phony deal they put together,” Trump told the audience. “This phony thing that now looks like it’s dying. So they don’t have anything with Russia. There’s no collusion.
“So now they go and morph into ‘let’s inspect every deal he’s ever done!'” Trump continued. “‘We’re going to go into his finances. We’re going to check his deals. We’re going to check –‘ These people are sick,” Trump said, eliciting laughter from the audience.
“I saw Little Shifty (Adam) Schiff yesterday … and he said, ‘We’re going to look into his finances.’ I was like, ‘Where did that come from? He always talked about Russia.'”
But it was Trump’s description of the Mueller investigation and new Democratic obsession with getting the president impeached any way possible that had the crowd cheering loudest — and the network censors scrambling.
“We had the greatest (election) of all time,” Trump said. “Now we have people that lost and, unfortunately, you put the wrong people in a couple of positions, and they leave people for a long time that shouldn’t be there, and all of a sudden they’re trying to take you out with bulls***, OK?”
“They’re trying to take you out with bull****.” Eight words that sum up the Mueller investigation, and Democratic efforts against Trump, perfectly.
Here’s the video, which we warn you contains the uncensored language. Viewer discretion is advised, as always:
So yes, about that whole Russian collusion thing. The Mueller probe is wrapping up and we don’t know what he has.
We probably got a preview with Michael Cohen’s testimony last week, however. He said he couldn’t prove Russian collusion and that Roger Stone was a “free agent” who wasn’t associated with the campaign and whatever dealings he had with WikiLeaks weren’t — at least as far as Cohen could prove — done at the direction of Donald Trump.
And oh, that infamous Trump dossier meeting in Prague Cohen allegedly had with Kremlin officials?
According to Cohen, that never happened. Given the number of other things Cohen was willing to say about the president on Wednesday, rest assured that he would have talked about Prague had it happened.
Instead, the investigations of Trump now seem to be focusing on Trump’s financial dealings, specifically the non-disclosure agreement payments he made to Stormy Daniels.
Whether or not this is actually a campaign finance violation is a matter of debate, but let’s remember that the Democrats really hitched their cart to the special counsel investigation of alleged Russia collusion.
Is Stormy Daniels the Manchurian porn star? Probably not.
Yes, it was definitely off script. But when it comes to making the point, that’s sometimes how Trump does it best.
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