Roger Stone case disintegrating as Bill Barr blows up Mueller's work: Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh gives a thumbs-up to President Donald J. Trump from the House Gallery Tuesday evening, Feb. 4, 2020, after President Trump awarded Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom during the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by D. Myles Cullen)

When FBI special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of 40 investigators couldn't find anything President Trump did wrong – even after Democrats claimed over and over that he colluded with Russians – they had to do something.

So they charged a number of Trump's acquaintances with various crimes, often process crimes in which they got caught while talking to those investigators.

But even that now is falling apart with the scandalous recommendation just days ago that oldtime Trump associate Roger Stone be given seven to nine years, the decision by the Department of Justice to withdraw that recommendation, the departure of four prosecutors who had worked on the case, and more.

Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh said everything is blowing up on the Democrats' agenda.

"Moving in and reducing the sentence on Stone is the final move on blowing up everything having to do with Robert J. Mueller III and Andrew Weissmann and the rest of that bogus team with those phony FBI clowns and all of the subterfuge they engaged in to overturn the election results of 2016," he said. "There wasn't a single crime committed in anything they alleged."

He explained what Stone did: "I'll tell you what Stone did, if you really want to know. You're gonna … You're gonna demand more, but I'm gonna tell you what it is. Roger Stone's crime boils down to him having tweeted, 'Congratulations to WikiLeaks' when they published the DNC emails."

He explained that Stone's "crimes" were all "process crimes. … He mixed up some dates in his posts, in his tweets. He was never charged with anything involving the Russians or election meddling, folks. Roger Stone was never charged with anything that had to do with the Mueller team being constituted and put together in the first place."

Mueller was assigned by the DOJ to look into Democrats' allegations, based on opposition research paid for partly by Hillary Clinton's campaign and using the Russian resources of a foreign agent, that Trump had colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

Mueller spent millions investigating, and found the evidence wasn't there. In fact, those investigators now are under investigation after it was confirmed fake evidence was submitted to a secret court to obtain permission for U.S. operatives to spy on the Trump campaign. That's the subject of a criminal investigation going on now.

Limbaugh said the case never got started.

"There wasn’t any evidence. There wasn’t a shred of evidence. There never has been. They haven’t produced any. So what happens in those two years? Why did he [Mueller] take that job? Well, we all know why he took the job. He was the figurehead that allowed all of his Democrat lawyers, Hillary-supporting, Trump-hating lawyers to try to build a case that could be used ultimately in impeachment to get rid of Trump and throw him out of office. And it was in the midst of all that that they ended up charging people that had nothing to do with anything. Roger Stone seven to nine years," he said.

He called it the "most outrageous political scandal that has occurred in our lifetimes."

"If there was no Trump-Russia collusion, then what the hell did Stone do with WikiLeaks that was criminal? Zip, zero, nada. WikiLeaks got hold of John Podesta’s emails ’cause John Podesta fell for a phishing scam on his own computer."

He went on: "If you beat somebody up while snatching their purse or wallet, that’s a year and a half to two years. Roger Stone was given seven to nine years for essentially tweeting, 'Congratulations' to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks when they published the DNC emails. This sentence, this seven- to nine-year sentence is proof beyond any shadow of a doubt of the vindictiveness of the Mueller team and their last-gasp effort to make what they did seem relevant.

"Forty FBI agents, folks — 40 FBI agents who knew there was nothing to the case. What did they do? Robert J. Mueller III, who knew there was nothing to the case, Andrew Weissmann who knew there was nothing to the case, and the other 15 Hillary lawyers on that team who knew there was nothing to the case, what did they do? Why, they snared Roger Stone, and they set up essentially an obstruction of justice impeachment case for the House Democrats because they didn’t have collusion."

CNBC reported, however, that all the speculation about a sentence, already denounced by Attorney General William Barr, may be for naught.

When Trump was asked about a pardon for Stone, he said he didn't want to talk about that … yet.

"But people were hurt, viciously and badly by these corrupt people," he said.