Rush Limbaugh: Don’t Be Concerned About Michael Cohen

On his nationally syndicated radio program, host Rush Limbaugh said that Michael Cohen has no evidence of anything incriminating on President Donald Trump and that all Cohen is doing is trying to get the best deal he can get from the U.S. attorney’s office Southern District of New York.

Discussing revelations about the former attorney for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, on his Friday show, Limbaugh stated, “As I’m sure you know, CNN has been breathlessly reporting that Michael Cohen, all these tapes with Trump and Trump said all these incriminating things. By the way, Cohen doesn’t have any evidence for this. He has literally no evidence, and even CNN’s been forced to admit this. So what Cohen is doing here is trying to get the best deal he can get from the U.S. attorney’s office, Southern District of New York.”

Limbaugh’s comments came as the battle heats up between Cohen and the Trump legal team and in particular Attorney for the president Rudy Giuliani. In recent days Giuliani has called Cohen a liar and argued that Cohen has no credibility.

Below is a transcript of Rush Limbaugh’s remarks on his show Friday:

“As I’m sure you know, CNN has been breathlessly reporting that Michael Cohen, all these tapes with Trump and Trump said all these incriminating things and then that Michael Cohen said that Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting that his son took with the Russian honeypot and all of that and that Trump has denied knowing anything.

“By the way, Cohen doesn’t have any evidence for this. He has literally no evidence, and even CNN’s been forced to admit this. But let me just try to cause you to have no concern about this. Robert Mueller is relying so little on Cohen that he gave that case to the Southern District of New York. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York has the Cohen case, not Mueller. If Cohen had anything that would help Mueller do anything with Trump, he wouldn’t have handed off the case.

“So what Cohen is doing here is trying to get the best deal he can get from the U.S. attorney’s office, Southern District of New York. He’s trying to make it look like he’s got all kinds of dope on Trump and he’d be willing to give it up. But the thing that you have to realize here is very simple. This is not Mueller’s case. He gave it away. He gave it away weeks ago. He transferred anything to do with Cohen to the Southern District of New York like he’s done with pretty much every other charge that he has made in this case. He’s sent it off to some other court, some other jurisdiction.”