Rush Transcripts...Jan. 21st 2020

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Democrats Desperately Seek Four Jeff Flakes

Jan 21, 2020



RUSH: Well, well, well, well, well. So we’re gonna get it all kicked off, the sham show in the United States Senate, ostensibly about impeaching Donald Trump. What it’s really about — I mean, if the Democrats’ dream could come true, you will not have a chance to vote for Donald Trump in November ’cause he’s not gonna be there. That’s what they’re trying to affect.

Now, they got no chance at doing that. That’s the objective. So they’re attempting to do other things. Their primary focus today — and I’m gonna lay this all out for you so that you have no confusion whatsoever about it. They are targeting four Republican senators to vote with them to go against McConnell’s rules to open it up to new evidence and new witnesses.

Now, along those lines, I want to remind you of something, ’cause I mentioned it yesterday. I said that they are looking for four Jeff Flakes. You remember what happened with Jeff Flake and the Kavanaugh hearings. Jeff Flake wimped out. Now, he’s a good buddy, as much as anybody can be a good buddy, of Delaware Senator Chris Coons, and Coons was working on him outside the hearing room when they would take breaks.

“Come on, Jeff, you know what the right thing to do here is. You know this guy’s a serial pervert,” and Flake, hating Trump and mad at Trump that Flake was not gonna be reelected, couldn’t even win a primary contest in Arizona, was susceptible. What really turned Flake, if you remember and you probably don’t, which is why I, Rush Limbaugh, am here. Do you remember Flake was outside the hearing room and all senators were going back and forth to their offices and to do that they have to get on elevators and trams and trains and who knows what else.

Well, a bunch of feminazi banshees trapped Flake in an elevator — and CNN was right there, they had been tipped off — CNN was part of the feminazi banshee brigade as he was coming out of the Kavanaugh hearing, and he was scared to death. He was as scared of these women as these young boys are apparently afraid of having sex.

And, by the way, that new book we talked about. You know why these young boys are afraid of having sex? I forgot to mention the payoff. It’s porn. They’re watching porn. And they all think, “My God, this is what women expect, and I don’t have it, oh, my.” And they’re scared. They’re scared to get undressed. We’re talking 16-year-olds.

Back in my day you couldn’t wait to get undressed, no matter what the fear. But today they’re scared of having sex because they’ve all seen porn and they’re worried that they can’t possibly match up with Johnny Blue Steel or whatever his name. I don’t know, I don’t watch porn so I don’t know what these guys’ names are. Cold Blue Steel, is that one guy’s nickname? No, that’s what Viagra does for you. I’m sorry. I got confused.

So Flake was terrified. He turned whiter than your average white cake. He was scared to death. CNN was right there, and they had their own cameras, and they were screaming at him. And he was white as a sheet. He could have been a Klansman for all anybody knew. And then the Drive-Bys got it, and they put it on a 24/7 loop. And it looked like Jeff Flake was singularly targeted because he was a bad guy. And, of course, he fell hook, line, and sinker.

And he started wavering on Kavanaugh, if you remember, it was Jeff Flake (imitating Flake), “You know what? I think we do need to bring the FBI back in. I think we do need to have more investigations because of all of the revelations here from Christine Blasey Ford and Avenatti,” who, by the way, this guy was being heralded as a Democrat presidential nominee ’cause he could be the Democrat version of Trump, at least what the Democrats think of Trump.

So Avenatti apparently has been caught pilfering funds from 170 different people that had trust accounts at his law firm. This guy is in deep doo-doo. He was one of the heroes in the Kavanaugh imbroglio, and they were using Flake, they literally scared the guy to death. Well, this is what they’re gonna try to do. I’m reminding you of this to prepare you. This thing doesn’t kick off for another 50 minutes.

And between now and then — you know, they’ve got these four Republican senators targeted to vote with them — McConnell announced rules to hasten everything, speed it up, have a lot of the trial — ha-ha-ha – happen. The close of the day will be midnight. The theory, nobody will be watching. And so they’re gonna be pulling whatever similar kind of tactics they have to in order to secure these four recalcitrant Republicans.

Cory Gardner is one. Martha McSally is another. Republicans that are thought to be in trouble. You Republicans, I just want to tell you something. You’re not in trouble. The 2020 turnout is going to be nothing like the 2018 turnout. The 2018 turnout that gave the Democrats the House is not gonna be – you’re gonna have Trump on the ballot. Donald Trump is going to win double digits black support. Donald Trump is going to kick butt in this election and nobody sees it yet, except us, who are able to read the tea leaves and just simply follow basic public opinion.

You Republicans have no need to be worried, is my point, especially worried if you align with Trump. Your problem’s gonna be if you break with Trump, that’s where your problem’s gonna be. Look at Flake. Ultimately that’s what happened to him. So I just wanted to prep you for that, and here’s Chuck You Schumer. This morning he had a little press conference. Grab audio sound bite number 22. Here he is pleading with the Republicans and moderates to join the Democrats.

SCHUMER: We will rest easy if we know we have required the truth to come out. Unfortunately in the minority that’s not solely up to us. We need four Republicans who are willing to stand up for what’s right, who are willing to stand up for what America wants and needs and not simply bow down to the president who, you know, most Americans know what this guy’s all about. Do most Americans really believe he wants a fair trail? I don’t think so.

RUSH: Most Americans understand that you and your Democrat buddies are so far over the edge on this that it’s you they want no part of, Chuck You. You may think you represent a majority of the American people and the American people’s thinking, but you’re nowhere close. They simply don’t see the president the way you do when they compare you to the president. They want no part of you.

They want no part of your policies that we had for eight years under Obama. They don’t want any part of it. They don’t want Adam Schiff ruling are the day. They don’t want any part of that. So you can live in your dreamland all you want about how you represent a majority mainstream Americans. You’re not even close to mainstream America.

You’re on the East Coast, you’re on the Left Coast — you maybe have a couple little cities in between — and that’s it. You know, Martha McSally, when Manu Raju the CNN reporter confronted her, this is exactly what they were doing. They were trying to run a preliminary Jeff Flake operation on Martha McSally. They’re trying to trap ’em — you know, trap ’em in an elevator, trap ’em in the hallway or whatever with a camera nearby to look at them and grab them scared and frightened or what have you.

Martha McSally did the right thing. She said to Manu Raju, “I’m not gonna talk to you. You’re a liberal hack, Manu!”

That’s the way to deal with this.

Do not doubt me.

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RUSH: So liberal hack Manu Raju attempted… After bombing out with Martha McSally, he confronted Mitt Romney mere moments ago, and this is how it went…

ROMNEY: I think the Democrats make a mistake when they —

RUSH: Wait a minute. Hold it. Hold it. I forgot to ask the question. Put the question on there. Manu Raju, liberal hack, CNN, said (impression), Do you have any concerns, Senator Romney? “Do you have any concerns about the changes in the rules compared to the Clinton impeachment rules that Senator McConnell has made?” Clearly, you gotta be very upset about that. Are you concerned at all?

ROMNEY: I think the Democrats make a mistake when they call outrage time and time again. If everything is an outrage, then nothing is an outrage. If they bring up witness amendments, for instance, I’m gonna say no. I’ve already indicated I am interested to hear from John Bolton, perhaps among others. But I’m not gonna be making that vote today. I’m gonna make that vote after the opening.

RUSH: Ahhh. So Romney, as of now, has held firm. This business on Bolton? (sigh) I don’t know. We’ll explain all that as the program unfolds today. This is what they’re trying to do. Now, this has not yet approached the Jeff Flake treatment. They had a bunch of deranged feminazi banshees wearing vagina hats to try to scare these guys. But it’s gonna come to that at some point. Romney says, “If everything is an outrage, then nothing is an outrage,” which is pretty much true. Look, Romney knows Trump’s not gonna lose in an election. It doesn’t make any sense.

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RUSH: Oh no, the actual trial is not gonna get underway today. They’re gonna debate the rules that McConnell has proposed, and the Democrats are going batty over that. I’ll explain this in due course. But I wanted to present to you the contrast. This impeachment business, folks, is totally manufactured, made up. It is not linked to anything true. There’s not an impeachable offense that’s been committed. There was no Russian collusion. There was nothing that these people said.

You know, they’re talking about “unfairness” ’cause they can’t call witnesses. These people denied the Republicans the opportunity to call witnesses during Schiff’s basement hearings back in the fall. I mean, this is just… It’s a typical, classic Democrat partisan maneuver, and they’ve simply corrupted the entire impeachment process here as they’re doing. But this is not where America is. America may be interested, may be fascinated, but Trump is where America is.

Trump is about what America is and making that even better.

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RUSH: On to impeachment now. The Senate is in session and McConnell just announced the basic premise behind his rules, and Chuck You Schumer is now complaining and whining and moaning about how there’s a cover-up and the president doesn’t want the truth to come out and there gotta be witnesses and so forth.

This is a theme that the Democrats have come up with, that this is a cover-up. Not letting them call additional witnesses is a cover-up. This is exactly what they were hoping to achieve with the whistleblower. When the whistleblower first touted this phone call that the president had with the president of Ukraine, Zelensky, they did not think that the transcript of the phone call would be released.

They were gonna demand it, they think Trump would never do it to protect presidential privilege and so forth. And they were then lining up to say he’s covering up because that was the magic word for Nixon, cover-up, cover-up, obstruction.

Well, Trump released the transcript. That alone should end this trial. The transcript, the whole subject, what happened on the call is widely known. There is no cover-up. There’s no attempt to hide anything here. But the Democrats are simply using the term cover up to explain why they’re not being allowed to change the rules.

The Senate does not conduct investigations in impeachment. They simply do the trial. Impeachment’s the province of the House. They do the evidence gathering, and after that then they produce their articles of impeachment. Well, these two articles are zip, zero, nada. There’s not an impeachable offense in them.

The Democrats want this trial turned into a circus so that it never ends, and they want the illusion that there’s new evidence to be found out there to be introduced here. And McConnell is telling ‘em to pound sand, that’s not what we do here. So Chuck You is complaining and whining about a cover-up. That’s basically what’s happening here, but I’m gonna give you more detail about it.

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The President Makes the Case for American Greatness in Davos

Jan 21, 2020



RUSH: The president in Davos today is speaking for America. The president in Davos today is speaking for the future of America. It isn’t today’s Democrats. It isn’t today’s leftists. It’s the president. He was on fire, and it may be one of his finest speeches of his entire administration. That’s saying something, ’cause the State of the Union address last year was a bang-up great speech. It might have been the year before. One of the two.

But I want to… We’ve got some sound bites from it that you have to hear, I want you to hear, but I want you to hear what I said yesterday, because if anybody doubts that I know this guy — and I don’t mean know him to say, “Hey, Mr. President, how are ya?” or play golf or whatever. I know the man; I know who he is. I know how he thinks. I know how he looks at things without having to ask him. That’s how I know Donald Trump. Now, I want to set up some of the excerpts of the speech we have by reminding you what I told you yesterday that I thought he would do and say in his Davos speech today.

So here we go, audio sound bite number 1. It’s three… two… one… hit it!

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RUSH: He’s gonna go to Davos today, may already be there. He’s speaking to them tomorrow, and he’s gonna tell them what’s coming next…. I think it’s a very important point for as many people as possible to understand. ‘Cause like I said in the first hour, the idea that America is not the good guys and that there are prominent Americans — primarily Democrats, but there are a lot of them — who think America is the problem in the world, and the problem stems from our size.

It stems from our power, both military and economic — and that we’re not the good guys? That is just so foreign to me. As much good as we do for the world, as much good as we do for ourselves — and we have no competitor in increasing the standard of living, life expectancy, economic prosperity, reduction in poverty. There’s no nation even close, and yet this is seen as a problem by a lot of people. And it irks Trump, it’s always bothered him, and it’s one of the things that he is attempting to reverse.

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RUSH: Make America Great Again. This is exactly what bothers him. It’s bothered him for a long time as a citizen like it’s bothered me, like it’s bothered you, this view of America that has been adopted by the Washington establishment — by our civil service corps, the ambassador corps — that somehow we’re the problem, that we are the destabilizing agent in the world, and it’s a bunch… It’s a crock. So setting up, this was me on yesterday’s program.

Let’s go to the president this morning in Davos — and by the way, they love him in Davos, and you know why? ‘Cause he’s been right. He talked… Davos is the industrialists and the capitalists, and there’s a bunch of leftists at this thing too. It’s a Swiss chalet bash and party. The only thing missing is the yachts that you can’t get there. They keep ’em down in the Greek isles or in St. Barth’s. But the guys that own the yachts are there, and Trump has been going, and he’s telling them two years ago what he was gonna do. He’s telling them two years ago what can be possible.

You know, it amazes me that people that have this kind of money are this dense and stupid about it, and somehow fall prey to all of this liberal thinking and the conventional wisdom — and they fall prey to it because it’s so dominant everywhere. Trump stands alone, tells them, “No. It’s wrong. America’s gonna be great. We’re coming back; let me tell you how we’re gonna do it,” and he’s done it. They love the guy in Davos now because he’s been right about it, and it’s all been beneficial to them — and it’s not just individual wealthy people I’m talking about.

It’s governments and a number of institutions which have been sucked in.

I mean, if the United States elects a guy like Obama then the world thinks, “Wow. The United States wants to go socialist. We’d better go socialist. We’ve gotta stay friends with the U.S.,” and even if they think it’s the wrong thing to do, they did it because they’re afraid of being shut out by the U.S. Well, so Trump has come along and said, “We’re not socialists and we’re never gonna be socialist, and that was an aberration; it isn’t gonna happen. We are going to be — once again — the leaders of the world, and you can be part of it. You can be with us. We have no reason to not want you to be part of it,” blah, blah, and they’re all on board.

So here. Let’s start with an audio sound bite from the president today, this morning in Davos.

THE PRESIDENT: When I spoke at this forum two years ago, I told you that we had launched the great American comeback. Today, I’m proud to declare that the United States in the midst of an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen before. America’s thriving, America’s flourishing — and, yes, America is winning again like never before. Just last week alone, the United States concluded two extraordinary trade deals, the agreement with China and the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, the two biggest trade deals ever made. These agreements represent a new model of trade for the twenty-first century — agreements that are fair, reciprocal, and that prioritize the needs of workers and families.

RUSH: And he made sure, he made sure to point out that their prior globalist hero — and there may have been some genuine feelings among this crowd that Obama was a hero. But I still believe that much of the Obama mystique was social. It was… I mean, how do you say “no”? How do you oppose the first African-American United States president? I think that accounted for a lot of what we all thought was a wild and massive embrace of Obama. I actually don’t think it was. In some places it was. I mean, don’t misunderstand. But I think a lot of people who were up front wanting to bask in the glow really were not, quote-unquote, “on board.” Trump made it an objective of his to point out that Obama left the American economy in a dismal state.

THE PRESIDENT: America’s economic turnaround has been nothing short of spectacular. When I took office three years ago, America’s economy was in a rather dismal state. The experts predicted a decade of very, very slow growth — or maybe even negative growth — high unemployment and a dwindling workforce and very much a shrinking middle class. Millions of hardworking, ordinary citizens felt neglected, betrayed, forgotten. They were rapidly losing faith in the system.

RUSH: Exactly! What were they being told? “America’s best days are behind us. America’s best days may not have been legitimate. We’re in a new era of decline mandated by world conditions. The United States finally must pay the price for all of its sins that it has committed that led to its superpower status.” Yada yada yada. Obama’s crowd said, “We’re the ones to manage the decline so the pain will be as limited as possible on you.” That’s just three years ago that Trump came along and said, “This is not necessary! It’s not necessary to see the country this way. It isn’t necessary to see the world this way. There’s no reason in the world the United States has to be seen as in decline.”

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RUSH: If you don’t want to believe me — and I know that you do. But if you need a second to the notion that these people in Davos are embracing Trump and eating it up because Trump has shown them they were all wrong when they signed on to Obamaism and United Nationsism, here’s Andrew Ross Sorkin this morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box. He’s on there with the cohost, Joe Kernen, who said to Sorkin, “You said President Trump is being embraced in Davos?”

SORKIN: Embraced and called “the New Davos Man.” The construct of what it used to be to be a Davos Man — of multilateral negotiations, of everything being (unintelligible) — and he sort of turned the whole thing on its head. And I think there was an expectation two or three years ago here that it wasn’t gonna work. And everybody, dare I say, has been — thus far, at least — proven wrong.

RUSH: Exactly. “Two or three years ago, eh, it was thought it wasn’t gonna work.” What wasn’t gonna work? Make America Great Again wasn’t gonna work? Reviving U.S. economy wasn’t gonna work? Who in the world says America isn’t gonna work? (chuckles) Answer: Democrats. Quite simply. American leftists, the worldwide establishment who don’t want America to work. America stands in the way of globalist ambitions of people who are not Americans.

Cutting down the world’s lone superpower is fundamental — it’s required — if you are going to institute some mad dream of a globalist regime or government that you are part of. You cannot have a globalist government if the most powerful economy and the freest society on earth is not part of it. So subordinating the United States, getting rid of borders, the whole concept of nations? It makes perfect sense why people of that bent would try to convince people America’s best days are behind them.

“America’s glory days are over. It’s time for new thinking!”

Donald Trump has come along and said, “Pfft!” to that.

So let’s go back to Trump’s remarks, now that you’ve heard it confirmed that he is being embraced, because everybody there was proven wrong. They didn’t think Trump was gonna be able to do it. They didn’t think Trump knew how to do it. They thought Trump was a bunch of bluster. You know, Make America Great Again? They thought that was white nationalism, which is an absolute crock. Here is Trump telling them how he changed the American economy with a blue-collar boom, and he pointed out to this crowd how all this is impacting Millennials.

THE PRESIDENT: Since my election, America has gained over seven million jobs. The unemployment rate is now less than 3.5%. We’re concentrating and creating the most inclusive economy ever to exist. We are lifting up Americans of every race, color, religion, and creed. Since I took office, more than two million Millennials have gotten jobs, and their wages have grown by nearly 5% annually — a number that was unthinkable. This is a blue-collar boom. Since my election, the net worth of the bottom half of wage earners has increased by plus-47%, three times faster than the increase for the top 1%. Real median household income is at the highest level ever recorded. The American dream is back bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.

RUSH: Damn right it is — and it’s, once again, the envy of the world, and it’s not unreachable for these people. All they have to do is abandon their own socialism, which (sigh) is very, very difficult to do. But Boris Johnson in the U.K. is doing his own impersonation of Trump, and they’re even talking about moving the House of Lords out of London (I mean, that’d be like moving the Senate to Omaha) just to separate it from everything else.

Anyway, you heard Trump talk about how since he “took office, more than two million Millennials have gotten jobs, and their wages have grown by nearly 5%.” “We’re concentrating and creating the most inclusive economy ever to exist. We are lifting up Americans of every race, color, religion, and creed.” The Wall Street Journal had a story. Let’s see. It would be… This is two days ago now, and it was a summary of various polling data out there, presidential approval numbers.

Listen to this: “Trump has an 83% approval rating among farmers and ranchers. He has a 34% approval rate with African-Americans, has a 47% approval rate Hispanics, has a 90% approval rate with Republicans.” Now, with all of that, how is it that the man cannot reach 50% or higher in all of these Drive-By Media presidential approval polls? These numbers were taken after the announcement of the new trade deal with the United States and ChiComs and the replacement for NAFTA.

“According to a monthly poll from agricultural trade publication Farm Journal released Sunday, 83% of farmers and ranchers approve of the president’s job performance.” Now, I know that a majority of Americans are not farmers and ranchers, but it’s more than you think. But 34% approval with blacks? Do you realize double-digit black support for a Republican presidential candidate…? Do you realize the upset that would cause, and 47% approval among Hispanics? The point is that people are aware. They’re living it.

I have a guy, a friend of mine, and when you ask him how you doing he says, “Oh, I’m doing great.” He says, “I’m living the dream.” That’s what he says now to everybody when they ask him how he’s doing: “Living the dream.” He’s not meaning to say it in a political sense. “Life’s good. I’m living the dream.” It’s different than saying, “Fine. How are you?”

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Now, another reason why I’m spending some time on the president’s Davos speech, the Drive-By Media did not cover it, folks. As far as I know. Maybe a few excerpts here from it that they could use to present it out of context. Fox might have covered it, don’t know. They’re six hours ahead. The best intel I have is the Drive-Bys didn’t cover it. And people just need to hear this. They need to hear the president of the United States describe the current state of the country and its future. So we have two more.

Now, you may have heard that Greta Thunberg was there and she was preaching her sorrow at climate change and upset that these people aren’t doing enough to save the planet for her and her generation and she chided them in saying you must think of doing everything you do for your children, which is what everybody does anyway.

I think it’s quite telling that a 16-year-old from Sweden can so rapidly ascend to prominent speaker role on any global issue. The bench must be pretty thin. I understand that they think young children tug at the heartstrings and are especially persuasive. But here’s Trump undaunted and unafraid to talk about her and this issue the way it needs to be discussed.

THE PRESIDENT: We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortunetellers. They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the 70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s. These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform, and control every aspect of our lives.

We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong and unyielding bastion of freedom. In America we understand what the pessimists refuse to see, that a growing and vibrant market economy focused on the future lifts the human spirit and excites creativity strong enough to overcome any challenge.

RUSH: All right. It’s not hard. It’s not hard to see, not hard to understand the history is on the side of that argument. Works every time it’s tried. And yet the prophets of doom are really, as he said, they’re simply people who seek to dominate and control every aspect of our lives on the premise that we’re not responsible enough, that we’re not wise enough, smart enough.

That left to our own devices, we’re destroying the climate, we’re destroying the planet, we’re destroying the food, we’re destroying the animals, we’re destroying everything, simply by making our lives better. Now, other presidents have extolled the virtues of America, but not like that. Trump just laced these people. He’s talking about Paul Ehrlich and The Population Bomb and these predictions back in the 1970s that we wouldn’t even reach this year as a civilization because we would have all run out of food by now with rampant population growth.

None of it has been even close to true, and these people are still alive, and they remain gurus on the left. Mass starvation, mass population, oil was gonna run out in the 1990s. None of it has been true and none of the predictions they’re making today are gonna come true. Calling them out like this is what past presidents haven’t done. Why? Who knows. I don’t think it’s complicated. I think it’s fear of going against what is purportedly conventional wisdom as echoed by media.

Finally, the last bite here that we have for you, the president tells all of these globalists — and there are a bunch of them in the audience at Davos — that America is by far the strongest economic power in the world and that they should emulate it, shouldn’t be afraid of it, emulate it, turn your people loose in your countries, unleash them.

Human nature is human nature, everybody wants to improve their lives, everybody wants a higher standard of living for themselves and their kids, everybody wants a longer life expectancy. Turn ’em loose. Learn the lessons of American capitalism. This is a total 180 from past American establishment figures and presidents apologizing for American capitalism. Trump is one of the biggest boosters, and here it is.

THE PRESIDENT: The United States is by far the strongest economic power in the world. It’s not even close. Today I hold up the American model as an example to the world of a working system of free enterprise that will produce the most benefits for the most people in the twenty-first century and beyond. Today I urge other nations to follow our example and liberate your citizens from the crushing weight of bureaucracy. In the first half of 2019, the United States attracted nearly one quarter of all foreign, direct investment in the world.

Think of that. Twenty-five percent of all foreign investment all over the world came into United States, and that number is increasingly rapidly. To every business looking for a place where they are free to invest, build, thrive, innovate and succeed, there are no better place on earth than the United States.

RUSH: There you have it. Donald Trump in Davos today singing the praises and virtues of America and boosting it in the face of globalists and socialists who have been working to undermine this nation with American partners found most prominently in the Democrat Party.

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Mitch McConnell’s Rules Should Prevail

Jan 21, 2020



RUSH: Let me share with you the benefit of my wisdom, which is born of intelligence guided by experience. The Senate trial — this charade, this impeachment trial — is underway, and the stage now is debating all these Democrat motions they’re making to change the rules that McConnell has announced to allow them to call witnesses. This is gonna go on a long time today, but I’m gonna tell you what the outcome will be. Mitch McConnell’s rules will define the trial. The Democrats are not going to succeed in pressuring McConnell.

It doesn’t matter what they say about him, doesn’t matter how he’s portrayed. They are not going to succeed in getting him to change his perception, his view of the Senate’s role in this entire fiasco. Now, if you want to watch whatever number of hours it takes for all of this to transpire, you’re more than welcome to, but I’m just telling you: At the end of the day, this impeachment trial will be conducted under the rules that Mitch McConnell has established. Do you know why?

Mitch McConnell runs the Senate.

The Republicans run the Senate.

Adam Schiff has nothing to say about what happens in the Senate.

Chuck You Schumer has nothing to do about what happens in the Senate because he doesn’t run it.

They are left grasping at air, desperate to find four Republican senators to give them 51 votes to allow new witnesses and new evidence and all of that. There are a couple of sound bites from the Turtle himself mere moments ago. He may be… The Turtle may be kind of the perfect person to handle something like this. He’s not gonna be moved off of his vision of what the Senate is — and let me tell you what that is. When I first…

Well, it wasn’t the first time, but it was one of my early conversations with Senator McConnell. This is years and years and years ago. I think it was during Clinton and he was explaining the limited capacity the Senate had to deal because they didn’t have 60 votes. It was a big, big deal. Sixty votes means… If you don’t have 60 — even if you have 52, 53 — you’re still not running anything at the end of the day, because you need 60 to make anything happen in the Senate, like choke off a filibuster.

He said to me, “The purpose of the Senate,” here’s the analogy, “is we’re the saucer. The House delivers us a bunch of heated stuff. That coffee is overflowing in that cup. It’s so hot, you couldn’t touch it. It collects in the saucer and cools off. That’s our role. That’s the role the United States Senate, Rush,” and he’s not gonna be moved off of that vision. He’s not gonna allow Schumer to run roughshod, not gonna allow the media to run roughshod over the process.

He’s not gonna surrender control of this process to the minority, just like Schiff did not surrender control to the Republicans in his fiasco, sham hearings in the House. They didn’t produce anything! They don’t have an impeachable offense, folks. They don’t have a crime, and they know they don’t have a crime. So they’re desperately trying to find one; so they want all these people from the administration to come testify open-ended. It doesn’t matter who, doesn’t matter what, just ask the questions.

And McConnell is saying, “That’s not our role here, buddy. Things come over here to cool off. We’re not gonna let you start pouring hot coffee back in the saucer once you get over here.” Here’s a couple of sound bites from McConnell from… Let’s see. This is, I think… Actually, I don’t know if this is on the floor of the Senate or if it’s a presser. Let me see. (muttering) Whatever. It doesn’t matter. Here, we have two bites, and this is the Senate majority leader explaining his role here…

MCCONNELL: This is a unique responsibility which the framers of our Constitution knew, that the Senate and only the Senate could handle. Our founders trusted the Senate to rise above short-term passions and factionalism. Today we will consider and pass an organizing resolution that will structure the first phase of the trial. This initial step will offer an early signal to our country. “Can the Senate still serve our founding purpose? Can we still put fairness, evenhandedness, and historical precedent ahead of the partisan fashions of the day?” Today’s vote will contain some answers.

RUSH: That’s the cup-and-saucer analogy expressed in a different way. (summarized) “Can we serve our founding purpose? Can we rise above the short-term passions and the factionalism?” Here’s the second bite…

MCCONNELL: We may hear a team of managers led by the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee chairmen argue that the Senate must precommit ourselves to reopen the very investigation they themselves oversaw and voluntarily shut down. It would be curious to hear these two House chairmen argue that the Senate must precommit ourselves to supplementing their own evidentiary record, to enforcing subpoenas they refuse to enforce, to supplementing a case they themselves have recently described as “overwhelming — overwhelming and beyond any reasonable doubt.”

RUSH: The floor of the Senate is where these remarks were made. I really want to… Let me parse and break down the second bite here. “We may hear a team of managers led by [Schiff and Nadler] argue that the Senate must precommit ourselves to reopen the very investigation they [in the House] shut down,” and they shut it down after saying there was “overwhelming” evidence, and that the hour was so near and so close that they couldn’t wait! They had to move forward. They couldn’t call any more witnesses.

They had to get going because time was of the essence because Trump poses an existential threat, yada yada yada. Gotta do it! Gotta go now! They pointed out that they had an “overwhelming” case. They had a case way beyond reasonable doubt. Now they get to the Senate, and what happened to that case? What happened to their overwhelming, beyond-any-reasonable-doubt evidence? They don’t have it, they never have had any, and McConnell is not gonna let the Senate be turned into a circus.

He’s even got a “kill switch” built in. We had the story yesterday that if it turned into that — and Schiff is gonna try to make it that. The Democrats are gonna try, no matter what. At the end of the day, McConnell’s rules are going to prevail, and Schumer and his crowd are not gonna be able to call witnesses. They’re gonna be out there trying to intimidate Republicans in the hallways and in the elevators, four Republican senators. They’re gonna be shouting “cover up” and “unfair” and “the people are being ill-served” and all of that, and it’s just gonna fall on deaf ears.

So let me now, after all of that, set the table here, and again, many of you… I’m looking at the call roster. They’re all to deal with this, and I understand that. But, folks, nobody, nobody covered Trump’s Davos speech. Trump’s Davos speech today reflecting his attitude about America, the great history in the last three years of economic success and the promise of more in the future is what the American people should have heard rather than this garbage here in this so-called impeachment trial.

And that’s why I spent the time on it, ’cause nobody covered it. Not just because of time difference, but because CNN, PMSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS no way they want Trump shown in a good light. So Adam Schiff (Pencil Neck) and Nadler raced to the microphone this morning to complain about McConnell’s resolution which sets the schedule for the Senate trial proceedings.

Now, today is supposed to be the first day of the Senate proceedings. Last night McConnell introduced a resolution laying out the timeline for the trial, and that resolution’s what’s gonna be voted on today. If the Senate passes the resolution, each side will be given 24 hours to argue their case over two days. The Senators will then be given 16 hours for questioning. So 24 hours over two days is 12 hours a day, noon to midnight.

Now, Chuck You Schumer and Schiff and the rest of the Democrats are complaining that McConnell’s schedule is too tight, it’s too compressed, it doesn’t give ’em enough time to jigger the results. They say that Clinton’s Senate trial allowed 24 hours of arguments over four days.

But the Clinton trial actually finished their opening arguments in three days and there were four articles of impeachment against Clinton, not just two, and they were substantive. Clinton had committed crimes, such as perjury and suborning — he had committed legitimate crimes. There are none here.

Now, McConnell’s resolution, i.e., the rules, do not permit any witnesses or any new evidence until after the opening arguments are heard. At that time if the Senate votes to hear from witnesses, it will depose the witnesses first — we will not see that — and then vote on whether they should testify.

That also ticks off the Democrats who claim it’s all part of the Republican cover-up of Trump’s crimes. This is exactly what Schiff did. He took depositions of people, Republicans in some cases were not even permitted to be in the room. And those who were in the room were not permitted to ask questions. He took depositions and determined what, if anything, they said that he wanted them to then say publicly. McConnell is simply saying we’re gonna have much the same kind of procedure. The witnesses will be deposed first and then there will be a vote on whether the testimony that’s been heard should actually be given before the Senate.

The Democrats are now all repeating the mantra that the Republicans are engaging in a cover-up by not calling witnesses that the Democrats demand, and these witnesses are people like Lev Parnas and John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney. They are of the belief that there’s a whole lot of administration people that can’t wait to drop the dime on Trump. Yeah, man, a lot of administration people hate Trump and they can’t wait to join this effort to get him thrown out of office, is what they’re hoping.

But the Democrats, Schiff over in the House, they didn’t call Lev Parnas. They didn’t call John Bolton when they were conducting their hearings in the House. Now, one of the reasons they said they didn’t, well, it’s gonna take too much time and the president was engaging in a cover-up anyway, the president was obstructing.

No, the president was gonna go to court, constitutionally, and assert executive privilege and claim that these people should not have to testify. And Schiff and his boys knew that that court fight would last all the way ’til the summer. And so Schiff and the boys, okay, well — there’s ladies there, too, I know. Sometimes you can’t tell who’s who there. Schiff and the boys said, “We’re not gonna let ’em waste time.”

So they didn’t call Bolton, they didn’t call Parnas, they didn’t call any of the witnesses they’re now demanding that McConnell let them call in the Senate. Speaking of cover-ups, isn’t the mother of all cover-ups how the Democrats are fighting hearing from Joe and Hunter Biden? Do you know that at one point the round mound of the gavel, Jerry Nadler said: You know what? If it comes down to hearing from Hunter Biden or no witnesses, I’m voting no witnesses.

They do not want any part of the Republicans getting a chance to ask Hunter Biden or his dad or Biden’s brother anything. That’s the mother of all cover-ups. The mother of all cover-ups is the Democrats fighting every which way they can to keep Hunter Biden from testifying. Not to mention that this entire sham has been a concerted effort to cover up the biggest political scandal in the history of the country, and that is the attempt to overturn the 2016 election. That’s the big cover-up.
That’s why all of this is happening is to keep any investigation of all of that from occurring publicly.

So McConnell has the votes for his timeline, he has the votes for his rules, for his resolution. He’s got the 51 votes to pass his rules, his resolution, which is the timeline, 24 hours over two days, 12 hours a day. The Democrats whining and moaning and caterwauling is for show. Now, the thinking is the Senate trial should be over before February 4th, which is the date of the State of the Union address. Who knows. With the Democrats involved here and the toss-up, we don’t know what the chief justice role is gonna be and how he’s gonna come down on some of this stuff. That remains to be seen.

I’m fairly confident I can tell you that after all of this caterwauling today that Mitch McConnell’s rules and Mitch McConnell’s resolution will prevail, and the Democrats are gonna be left shrieking about a cover-up and they’re not gonna call their witnesses.

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RUSH: By the way, one thing about the House and Lev Parnas, who’s this — you know — watch it, Rush. Watch it. Like I told you, I’ve been amazed in the early days of some of Trump’s staffing decisions, and I don’t know how in the world Rudy gets involved with somebody like Lev Parnas, but he did, and it is what it is.

But the bottom line is Lev Parnas was not covered by executive privilege, meaning Schiff could have called Lev Parnas any day he wanted and nobody could have stopped him. Schiff could have brought Lev Parnas. He’s this Ukrainian the guy that claims that Trump’s lying every time he opens his mouth about it, and Rudy’s out saying this guy, Parnas, you know, I knew him and his wife. I’m stunned that this guy’s misrepresenting everything that’s happened between us.

Well, somebody scared the hell out of Parnas or else is offering him a lot of money. But all that aside, Schiff could have called Lev Parnas. He’s not protected by executive privilege. He’s not part of the regime. He’s not part of the administration. The Democrats had no excuse not to call Lev Parnas.

Now, they couldn’t have gotten Bolton, and they couldn’t have gotten Mulvaney because of executive privilege, but they could have called Parnas, and they didn’t. They didn’t call a whistleblower. You want to talk about a real cover up, not calling the whistleblower. The whistleblower, who got all this started. Why not call the whistleblower?

I’ll tell you why you don’t call the whistleblower, because you gotta protect Schiff, because Schiff and the whistleblower conspired to move this whole thing off the dime before Trump had released the transcript. The whistleblower never heard the phone call. Remember, he got it secondhand we think from Lieutenant Colonel Vindman — O say can you see.

The whistleblower’s original report was terrifying, it was shocking, it was frightening. “I couldn’t stay silent.” And then Trump releases the transcript. And then it was discovered the whistleblower first called somebody in Schiff’s office. Schiff then put him in line with the inspector general. Everybody ended up being corrupted. That’s why the whistleblower is not gonna be called, to protect Schiff.

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RUSH: I just saw a graphic up there that the Turtle has decided to expand the evidence presentation to three days instead of two. That’s probably to satisfy some recalcitrant Republicans.

We’ll see.

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RUSH: There’s a couple of things here to warn you about. The Drive-By Media is all ecstatic because they think McConnell has already caved by giving an additional day to present cases, two days was the original, 12 hours a day, 24 hours total. He’s now moved it to three. Many liberal journalists, “See? He’s beginning to cave. He knows that he’s about to lose four Republicans.”

That is not the case. In fact, what I think you’re gonna hear some about it’s gonna be downplayed. But there are some Democrat senators who are getting fed up. Schiff had the opportunity to call all the — he’s the committee chairman over there. He’s the Intelligence Committee chairman. He could have called these witnesses any day he wanted, and he didn’t. And now he’s come into their chamber and preaching to them and demanding, they’ve got a duty to do it.

And some of them, I’m telling you, you’re not gonna hear this, but it’s reverberating there, it’s percolating, some Democrats, “What the hell is our job for?” It’s one thing, Democrat unity, but for some little pea brain to come over from the House and start chastising the Senate for not doing its duty when Schiff could have called these witnesses and now putting the onus on them to do it. The media wants you to think McConnell is caving and that four Republican recalcitrants are maybe gonna win the day and Schumer may end up running the trial. Don’t fall for any of that. It’s the usual attempt to dispirit you, depress you, and all of that.

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Democrats and Drive-Bys Are So Out of Touch, It’s Baffling

Jan 21, 2020



RUSH: We’re gonna start in Kennard, Indiana, with Scott. Great to have you, sir. Glad you waited, and hello.

CALLER: Hello, Rush! (silence)

RUSH: Hello.

CALLER: (unintelligible)

RUSH: Yeah, how are you doing out there, Scott?

CALLER: Just an Indiana country boy trying to get by, that’s all.

RUSH: Well, I wish you the best in that.

CALLER: Well, I’m gonna try to be brief. I’m gonna try and make my point. My point is, I’m 57 years old. I’ve never voted in my life. I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I’m not an independent. I’m just a guy trying to make 40/50 a year, and all these people with all this money? Nancy Pelosi has got to know in the back of her mind she is not gonna win this. They’re overwhelmed. They’re outvoted. Automatic. They’re gonna sit there and listen to her crap and then they’re gonna say:

“No, it’s over. He’s been exonerated. Nothing’s gonna happen.” But my point, my logical point is, it is possible for her to turn enough votes in doubt? Like I told your interviewer — he’s a very nice man — it’s like the guy that lives down the street and all your neighbors are talking about him saying, “Oh, I heard he did this and I heard he did this,” but you’ve never seen him do a damn thing. So that’s the doubt that she’s hoping that will put enough votes in her pocket later to get somebody in there on her side.

RUSH: You know, I… Hang on a minute here, Scott. I need to ask you a couple questions, and if you don’t want to answer, you don’t have to.

CALLER: Okay.

RUSH: So please don’t misunderstand.

CALLER: Okay.

RUSH: You said that you’ve never voted.

CALLER: No.

RUSH: You are… How old did you say you are?

CALLER: I’m 57.

RUSH: Fifty-seven.

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: You haven’t ever voted. You’re not Republican, Democrat, independent. Just trying to make 40 or $50,000 a year.

CALLER: Yeah. I’d like a new truck.

RUSH: Why is that relevant to the point you’re making? You’re trying to say, “I’m not even a political guy and I see that this thing is an absolute joke; it’s even got me ticked off and I’m not even a political guy”? Is that your point?

CALLER: I think so. Just an average guy’s observation. I’m not for either side. I do believe that a lot of the people that voted for Trump were not necessarily Republicans. They just knew that Nancy — I mean, Hillary — had no business being (crosstalk).

RUSH: I totally agree with that. No, no. I’m just — and then you mention Pelosi in this. So you think Pelosi is not even interested in people like you?

CALLER: I don’t think so. I don’t think a bit. Another wild idea is, what if she does get him kicked out and then goes after Pence? What’s her position?

RUSH: Well, that isn’t gonna happen Neither is —

CALLER: Okay. I think it’s crazy enough.

RUSH: Anyway. No, okay, look, I appreciate the call. I think… You know, the way people think and the way they speak has always fascinated me. Here’s a guy who listens to this program, so he’s obviously engaged, even though — and we’ll take him at his word. Anybody can call here and say anything. We’ll take him at his word for the purposes of the brilliant point I want to make here. He’s 57. He’s just trying to make 40 or 50, which implies he’s not yet making 40 or 50 — or may just be there and is trying to hold onto it.

In other words, he doesn’t want much. He’s not greedy, just trying to get by. He’s neither Republican, Democrat, not even independent. Yet all of this is souring him on things and he makes the observation that, “Hey, look, a lot of people that voted for Trump are probably like me, haven’t voted before or haven’t voted in a long time, not necessarily Republican.” I think that’s absolutely true, and then to throw Pelosi in here and to say, “She doesn’t even care about people like me”? (chuckles) That’s dead-on right. This is nothing about the American people.

You are so right about that, Scott. This is all about them. They’re taking all of this time over in the House of Representatives where they could be working on things that would help you make your 40 or 50, that can help you maybe have a health care situation that you could manage. Look, folks, some people look at government that way, and they exist. So I’m just gonna address it that way, okay? Your House of Representatives, the people and place that you think is looking out for you, they don’t even care about you.

All they care about is themselves and their own political agenda, which is get rid of Donald Trump, which means overturn the election of 2016. They’ve got no reason to get rid of the guy other than the fact that he beat them. So here’s a guy — taking him at his word — who doesn’t vote, is not all that involved. Some of you might say, “Well, then he’s not worth listening to! If you don’t vote, you’re not invested.” Not for this show’s purposes. His take on this is fascinating to me. I’m taking him at his word because it’s people like this…

I guarantee you, not only does Pelosi not care about this guy, neither does ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC. They don’t give a rat’s rear end about guys like this. It’s all about advancing their agenda, whatever time they can take spending on this, whatever money from the treasure they can appropriate to use for this purpose. He is exactly right. The American people are the last reason the Democrats are doing any of this, the American people at large.

Now, obviously the Democrats have to placate and satisfy the lunatics in their base and give them a circus. But they’re not nearly as big as they would like to lead you to believe. So I think this is all pretty fascinating. He has no desire to get rid of Trump. You heard him say, “Just like the guy in your neighborhood. Everybody’s talking about him, but you’ve never seen him do any of the stuff that people are accusing him of doing.”

People haven’t seen what Trump has done here. They haven’t proved any of this Russia stuff. Put this in perspective. For two years, people like Scott in Indiana heard that Trump stole the election working with the Russians, colluded with them, might have been a traitor, and that Robert Mueller was gonna finally reveal the truth. And when the moment of truth comes it’s a big, fad dud. So the starting point is they haven’t been able to prove Trump did anything and they don’t stop trying to get rid of the guy.

I think what this may indicate is yet another bit of evidence of how literally out of touch these people in Washington, the Democrats especially, are with the American people — and they have no sense of how they’re being seen. They have no sense how people in this country see them. And if you are going to perform, if you’re in any way a performer — and that’s what these clowns are doing, they’re putting on a show — you have to have a degree of empathy to understand how you’re being perceived, to know whether it’s working or not.

They have no clue that it isn’t working in terms of public opinion — and in fact, it isn’t. Here’s the latest on this. This is from Gallup. Gallup! Are you ready? It’s from yesterday. “Gallup Poll Shows the Republican Party Firmly Behind Trump as He Faces Impeachment — Ninety-three percent are opposed to a conviction and removal in the Senate, and 51% of Americans overall agree,” and I think it’s higher than that. I don’t know.

The approval polls and all that, when you take the individual groups in the polling data of their overwhelmingly support for Trump, it’s a mystery how he doesn’t even get to 50% in the presidential approval polls. Anyway, Gallup says that Trump’s approval rating is 44%,” a number that has held steady in recent months. Forty-six percent of Americans say they would like senators to vote to convict Trump and remove him from office.

“Fifty-one percent say no. Trump’s impeachment figures are sharply divided along partisan lines.” The bottom line is that the Democrats have not convinced the public that Trump should be tossed. The media hasn’t convinced them, and I’m sure it grates on ’em, but they’re not even… Folks, they’re not even aware how they’re being seen.

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RUSH: Randy in Tulsa. It’s great to have you, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. Longtime listener since the mid-eighties, and this is the first time I’ve been able to call, and I just wanted to say I enjoy your show.

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.

CALLER: So what I told your screener was I think that this effort by the Democrats to impeach the president is actually working greatly to his advantage in that, one, it’s showing their true colors. But, two, they’re so busy in concentrating all their time and effort into the impeachment, they’re almost ignoring the work that he’s doing and he is able to push forth his agenda, his policies, his trade agreements, his judge appointments, everything, and they’re not putting up much of a fight because they’re too busy trying to impeach him.

RUSH: Well, on the judges, yeah, on balance, you’re right. They did delay the signing of the NAFTA replacement for a while, but your overall all point is that they’re so focused on this that he pretty much — it’s not that he has free reign. He’s having trouble getting legislation passed. He would love to have reformed Obamacare by now.

CALLER: Oh, correct.

RUSH: And they’re standing obviously in the way of that because it’s part of their presidential campaign. But why else do you think, aside from that, do you think it’s helping him in other ways? Beyond the Democrats showing their true colors, the Democrats show their true colors every day. It amazes me that we still have anybody that votes for ’em.

CALLER: Well, in just my small part of the world, my wife and I have a very diverse family and a very diverse group of friends, a lot of strong liberals, a lot of liberal friends who are good friends. We can always agree to disagree. But just in my small world I know of two staunch, lifelong Democrats who have actually switched affiliation to the Republican Party and will be voting for President Trump this term.

I don’t know how widespread that is, but for these two to convert, I have to think the number of actual Democrats or liberals who are converting over because of this fiasco they’re doing, I think that number’s gotta be huge. And I think that President Trump is not only gonna win reelection, but that he will win in an almost a Reagan-Mondale landslide.

RUSH: A lot of people think that. You voted for him in 2016?

CALLER: I did. I voted against Hillary.

RUSH: Okay. I noticed the hesitation there. So you really were not a pro-Trumper, you just didn’t want her anywhere near anything.

CALLER: That’s absolutely correct, sir.

RUSH: But now you’re all-in?

CALLER: Oh, absolutely. I was an independent when I voted for President Trump, and I have changed my party affiliation as a registered Republican and I’ve always been a Republican.

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: But when President Obama was elected, I changed it to independent, but, yeah, my wife and I both held our noses and voted for President Trump not knowing what to expect.

RUSH: Right. Well, what was it that you held your nose about? What about him were you queasy about?

CALLER: The same thing that the libs are complaining about now, his lack of presence, if you will. He’s so different than anything we were used to. Even myself — and I’m, you know, pushing 60 — just so different than anybody we were used to, just did not know what to expect from him. I didn’t want, you know, an Apprentice producer being the president. But we have both been just extremely impressed and very proud to say that we did vote for him —

RUSH: Yeah, see, I think there is a lot of this out there. And it’s untapped knowledge. The Drive-By Media, the Democrats — you know, folks, in one sense — and I think this is — I said this shortly after the election in 2016 and I think it’s still true. I think the Democrats still don’t know why Trump won. I think their arrogance is such that they tell themselves, we don’t need to know why he won, he’s not gonna win again, we don’t need to know.

And I think part of it is they don’t want to know why he won because then that would require them to find out why they were rejected. But they still haven’t figured it out. And it’s compounded by their obvious belief that they think all this impeachment stuff, they think everything they’re doing, they act like they are representing majority opinion in America. They are so out of touch, it’s baffling in a way, they’re professionals.

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White House Lawyers Eviscerate That Irritating Little Pencil Neck Creep

Jan 21, 2020



RUSH: This irritating little Pencil Neck creep, Adam Schiff, is bellyaching and whining and moaning over McConnell’s lack of ability or willingness to call witnesses and it’s just so unfair and (impression), “Trump is so bad and Trump is so mean and he so cheated. He’s gonna cheat again. Our elections are perverted, are — are — are corrupted. Trump did this and that and the other thing,” and they have no case. They’ve got no case.

They’re desperate to try to bring up anything here to throw it against the wall and see if it’ll stick. Something to keep in mind, folks, during this entire proceeding — and I don’t mean just the Senate. I mean from the moment the whistleblower came forward and Schiff began the sham basement hearings last fall, do you realize the president’s case hasn’t even been made? It hasn’t been heard! They didn’t allow it in the House. They didn’t allow any presidential witnesses to come in. They weren’t allowed to… It was a stacked deck.

The point is, the president’s case is going to consist of blowing this up. I mean, you can’t defend a negative. You can’t. This is why in American justice, the prosecution has to prove its case. You, as the accused, do not have to prove you didn’t do it. So when the president’s lawyers get their chance at this, it’s gonna be to blow up everything the Democrats have done here, which the American people have not heard from the president’s representatives. They’ve heard it here. The American people have heard it on Fox News and some other places.

But Mr. Cipollone, one of the president’s lawyers, just pointed out in his argument for McConnell’s resolution, meaning the rules, is that it’s exactly like the resolution and schedule that happened in Clinton’s impeachment trial, which passed unanimously 100 to zero. Now, I also… I have to tell you something. I know impeachments have been rare, and they’re not gonna be going forward. They’re gonna be commonplace now, probably. But comparing this to the Clinton impeachment bothers me.

Just because it was done one way then doesn’t mean it must be done that way always, or just because no precedents were set then means they can’t be set now. The cases are different. Clinton committed crimes, for crying out loud. That’s why he was impeached — and they were serious crimes. They were statutory and constitutional. He lied under oath in a grand jury deposition. He lied under oath on videotape — everybody saw it — and asked other people to lie. That’s what mob bosses do.

There is no crime. This comparison to the Clinton impeachment procedurally? I guess people are going to do it. But it seems to me that we don’t need to compare our case to anything. We got this. This is a slam dunk. They don’t have any evidence. They don’t have an impeachable offense, and there’s no reason to give them months and months and months to go through the phony, fake motion of trying to make a case on television, on the Senate floor, when they have none — and that’s why McConnell’s rules are what they are.

They’re gonna shut this down. There isn’t any evidence, they don’t have any, and the Senate’s not gonna be turned in to a back alley where investigations are taking place, which is what the Democrats are demanding in calling it “fair,” and if they don’t get it, they’re calling it a “cover-up,” and people say, “Well, the Clinton impeachment…” Screw what happened the Clinton impeachment! This is the Trump impeachment. It’s bogus. It’s totally manufactured. It’s nothing more than an October Surprise.

It’s a political event. It is opposition research. That’s all this is, because there aren’t any impeachable offenses. They had their own opportunity to find the evidence, to produce the evidence. They don’t have any. They didn’t produce any because there isn’t any. They just had a bunch of noses-out-of-their-joint civil servants and ambassadors who were left out of Trump decision-making, and on that basis, “Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing. He did not consult us, and we are the experts.”

Nobody elected you, snooty, nose-in-the-air elitists. Clinton lied under oath in a sexual abuse case. Can anybody say #MeToo? He lied under oath in a sexual abuse case, for crying out loud! Today, that’s the worst crime in humanity: Sexual abuse. Harvey Weinstein, all that, Jeffrey Epstein — well, aside from environmental abuse. Clinton lied under oath in a sexual abuse case to protect himself and asked others to lie for him! There’s nothing comparable to that in anything Trump has done or has been accused of doing.

Pencil Neck… When I turned on at the top of the hour to watch this, Pencil Neck used his time (and he’s still using it) to argue against McConnell’s resolution and to run through the fallacious claims about Trump’s crime, which is really why the Democrats wanted this debate, so they could present their bogus case while they had a peak audience. “You know, it’s the trial. It moves to the Senate!” Nobody watched ’em in the House. These people are a bunch of dryballs, a series of dryballs. Politics is showbiz for the ugly, and Schiff and his pals on the Democrat side prove that.

Nobody watched them.

So they want a bigger audience here in the Senate.

I’m imagining what it must be like to be in the Senate and listen to this little snivelly voiced, arrogant snob tell them how they don’t know what they’re doing, how dangerous the president is and how they must be allowed to do… He’s lying through his teeth about what the president did, about the evidence, lack of it. I mean, it’s just… I told you it was gonna be painful if you watch this because at the end of the day Schiff and his guys are gonna get shut out; the McConnell rules are gonna survive — the resolution, the timeline, and all of that.

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RUSH: Texarkana, Texas. This is John. Great to have you, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Hi there, Rush. How are you today?

RUSH: I’m good, sir. Thank you.

CALLER: Yeah. I was calling, I just basically decided to tune out the impeachment. The more I watch, the angrier I get just watching. They’re a bunch of people just lying through their teeth. The people that just got through in the House doing the very things that they’re accusing the Senate of doing, it’s just infuriating.

RUSH: And so what did you do? You turned on this program.

CALLER: That I did. You’re always positive, upbeat, and you’re able to —

RUSH: Exactly. Positive, upbeat, and I don’t lie to be positive, and so you had to leave that, and you came here in order to have normalcy restored?

CALLER: That’s true, yes. That positive outlook of what’s true is a lot easier to swallow than a bunch of lies all day.

RUSH: I tell you, it’s been a big bugaboo of mine for a long time. I mean, everybody lies to one degree or another, but in the political realm where everybody really, really lies, to be confronted with a serial lie that propels itself with a bunch of offshoots for three years, that Trump stole the election and colluded with Russians. And so we’ve gotta overturn the election of 2016, this for three years.

We’ve been subjected to every lie they have been able to manufacture about this presented to us, of course, as official evidence. I told you, I told you if you were gonna watch this today, that you’re gonna have to just put up with it and realize at the end of it all that McConnell’s rules are going to survive, they’re gonna be what guides this trial when it ultimately happens.

I mean, I’ve got a couple of Pencil Neck sound bites here. I don’t even know if I want to subject you to them. Why should this guy get any more time, particularly on this program where more people will hear him than if they’re watching the stupid trial on C-SPAN or wherever. I probably will play it when I have more time.

There’s something else too. We keep hearing about witnesses. They want witnesses. Witnesses to what? There aren’t any crimes that have been committed here, folks. The transcript of the phone call, which is what this is all about, has been released. There are no witnesses to an impeachment crime because Trump hasn’t committed any crimes, much less in front of witnesses.

“Well, Rush, what about all those ambassadors that testified?” They had no firsthand knowledge. And every one of them was asked, “Did any of you witness or see an impeachable offense?” Dead silence. Every one of those ambassadors, even Lieutenant Colonel Vindman — O say can you see? — he didn’t even find any impeachable offense. He just had his sensibilities bothered.

So even this term “witnesses” is loaded. The Democrats want to be able to say after the fact, “See? See? See? We had the goods. Witnesses to all of Trump’s reprobate behavior ready to tell all, but these evil the Republicans stopped us.” There aren’t any witnesses. There hasn’t been a crime committed here.

The only witnesses there are are people who are in the Trump administration who have watched him execute his constitutional duties. And that’s what they’re trying to turn into crimes, abuse of power and have witnesses. They don’t have any witnesses. They’re asking for haters. They want haters. They want disgruntled employees.

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RUSH: I want to try to properly characterize what I just saw for you watching the impeachment, whatever this is in the Senate — and it seriously makes me wonder about these people and what they literally thought was gonna happen. I mean the Democrats. So Schiff just did the opening presentation for the Democrats, and (sigh) I don’t care what he said. It was all just cockamamie BS. It’s not the point what he said.

He has been eviscerated by Jay Sekulow — one of Trump’s lawyers — and now Pat Cipollone, and they are ripping the skin off of his bones, and Nadler too. They are describing, maybe for the first time in a lot of American people’s experience… They’re describing the sham that was Schiff’s investigation in the basement room in the House. They’re explaining how no Republican witnesses were called. They’re explaining how Democrat witnesses were ordered to only say certain things under threat of contempt if they didn’t follow Schiff’s instructions.

These are things that you know because you listen here and you’ve been told. But the American people watching this are hearing for the first time about the abject absence of any evidence in the totally phony unfairness and bias of Schiff. Cipollone right now just ripped Schiff a new one in every which way about procedures in his basement hearing room, the SCIF. But in addition to that, Cipollone went through almost word by word how Adam Schiff lied to the American people about the transcript of the phone call.

Now, you know about this because I’ve already made a big deal about it. The president released the transcript of the phone call with the president of Ukraine. It’s out there. Anybody can see it. Anybody can read it. It’s not on a private server where you need a password. Anybody can read it. Schiff, on a day where the House Intelligence Committee was meeting — he’s chairman — recites what he wants people to think is the transcript.

It’s that day where he said (summarized), “The president called Zelensky and said, ‘You listen to me and you listen tight. I want you to find dirt on my opponent in 2020, Mr. Biden. If you have to make it up, I want you to make it up. You find the dirt, and you don’t get back to me until you find it — and I’m telling you this nine times.’ The president told this guy nine times, ‘Make it up if you have to! Find the dirt, whatever, and don’t get back to me until you do.

“‘And, furthermore, you’re not getting a dime — you’re not getting a dime from the United States — until you give me what I want.'” So Cipollone goes through how this is an abject lie. It is a psychopathic lie. Schiff did say exactly what I just told you he said, and it took 30 minutes for a Republican on that committee to call him out on it. Thirty minutes! I’m losing my mind here watching. “Where are the Republicans objecting to this?” Schiff, when he was finally called on it, said (sputtering), “It was a parody. It was satire.” It was neither.

He was trying to get away with lying about it, knowing the media wasn’t gonna call him out on it. Okay. So here he comes and makes his case. Does he not think this is going to be pointed out? Cipollone just pointed it out pretty much like I just did. Schiff is sitting there somewhere watching this. Do these people like Schiff and Nadler, who have lied through their teeth — conducted the essence of a prefab, unfair, biased, so-called investigation — not know that they’re gonna get called out here? Do they not know that they’re gonna finally be exposed?

They have to know this is gonna happen. And yet they still do this. Sekulow and Cipollone are literally stripping these two guys bare right now in the entire way they conducted the investigation both behind closed doors in that basement meeting in the House and the public televised hearings, and it just makes you wonder. Pelosi and all these people, do they not realize that on day one they’re essentially dead — on day one! They can whine and bellyache about witnesses all they want.

They have just been exposed. Now, they obviously are not telling themselves this. They’re saying, “Well, nobody’s gonna believe Sekulow. He works for the president; he’s gonna be seen as a liar. Nobody’s gonna believe Cipollone. He works for the president; he’s gonna be seen as a liar.” You just lie through your teeth so many times and you demand another forum where you know you’re gonna be exposed and you go forward with it? Maybe I’m off base. It’s something I wouldn’t do, obviously. I’m not… They’re not me; I’m not them. Did they…?

I don’t know. Did they not stop to think what the president’s lawyers could do with this totally bogus case they have assembled? Did they not realize it could be dismantled inside of 10 minutes in opening presentations on the Senate floor? While Schiff is up there calling the president a liar and an abject threat to our democracy and our elections, he gets exposed as a pathological liar and an incompetent to boot, and an unfair…

Well, I’m running out of adjectives that are not profane. We’ll see. I just… (chuckles) Cipollone and Sekulow have really done a good job, let’s just put it that way, and I’ve only had a chance to watch them, you know, three minutes at a time — max, maybe four minutes — on a couple of breaks. I really hope somebody would make… Well, no. I’m not gonna say it that way. I just want to remind you again, there really aren’t any witnesses. That’s another loaded term.

They’re trying to create this illusion the president’s committed a series of crimes, constitutional and otherwise, so bad he’s gotta be removed, and there are witnesses. Democrats know the witnesses, the witnesses know who they are, we gotta hear from them. There aren’t any witnesses; there’s not a crime here. Witnesses is a loaded term. What they’re looking for are haters.

They’re looking for more Trump haters, either in the administration or in the civil service corps or in the deep state, the administrative state, whatever, disgruntled employees like that parade that Schiff put forth before his committee. These are the people, “Well, Trump went outside the normal channels. Trump did not use the interagency group.”

Yeah, he didn’t trust you. He had his own people in Ukraine. Ukraine’s been a corrupt hotbed for all those years in the Obama administration. You people were there and ran a lot of it. He doesn’t want to talk to you about it. And sure as hell these people up there testifying before Schiff’s committee are lying or maybe not lying, but they’re shading their testimony to make it look like they’re the experts, they’re the brilliant ones, they have all the answers, diplomatically.

And Trump’s a buffoon, doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s dangerous, poses a great threat to the world, he didn’t listen to us, didn’t seek our advice. But did you see him break the law? No. Have you seen any impeachable offense? No. No. No impeachable offense. Were you on the phone call? No, I wasn’t on the phone call. Have you ever met president? No, I haven’t met president. The witnesses hadn’t met the guy. They weren’t on the phone call, which is all any of this is about.

So there aren’t any witnesses. If they had actual witnesses, folks, they would have called ’em over in the House. The witnesses would have been paraded through there and we would have had mounds of evidence based on their testimony, but they haven’t called them. You know, Schiff has been saying he’s got evidence that Trump colluded with Russia. He’s still saying this.

After the Mueller report, he’s still saying it, but he’s never revealed whatever this evidence he has is. He’s never released it. Well, call him as a witness. Apparently he’s got evidence. Call him as a witness. Bring the whistleblower in. Call him.

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RUSH: Let me read to you one thing Cipollone said. This is not what I saw with Cipollone just dismantling Schiff and his lying representation of the transcript of the phone call. But this is one of the things that Pat Cipollone, he’s one of the lawyers on the president’s team, he said, “In an election year, some of you are upset because you should be in Iowa right now,” meaning the Democrats. They’re not allowed, the Democrat senators have to stay there.

Biden and Buttigieg, Mayor Pete, they have the run of the campaign trail ’cause the Democrat senators running for president are locked in the Senate. So he’s saying, “In an election year some of you are upset because you should be in Iowa right now but instead we’re here. And they’re not ready to go, and it’s outrageous. It’s outrageous. The American people won’t stand for it. I’ll tell you that right now.” And he’s speaking here of the House managers like Nadler, Pencil Neck. “They’re not here to steal one election.” He just said this from the floor of the Senate as part of the trial.

“They’re not here to steal one election. They’re here to steal two elections. It’s buried in the small print of their ridiculous articles of impeachment. They want to remove President Trump from the ballot. They won’t tell you that. They don’t have the guts to say that directly, but that’s exactly what they are here to do. They are asking the Senate to attack one of the most sacred rights we have as Americans, the right to vote, the right to choose our president in an election year. It’s never been done before. It shouldn’t be done now.”

So this is an assault on their motivation, what they’re really here to do. And, by the way, he’s not wrong. Schiff did make a motion to have the Senate do what they could to remove Trump now, get him out of there now so he can’t be on the ballot in November because he represents an existential threat because he’s already said — this is Schiff again — Schiff said that Trump has already said he’s gonna cheat again. He’s happily out there saying he’s gonna cheat again. That’s what the phone call was about.

He’s lying through his teeth about it. How can there be any undecided senators? How can anybody like Cory Gardner, Mitt Romney be watching any of this and want to give these clowns the moment of the time of day? But Cipollone called out their true motive, get Trump off the ballot, second election they want to steal. They failed in overturning the 2016 election. They’re trying to get Trump off the ballot for this coming election, which happens to be true.

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African CEO Praises Trump and America

Jan 21, 2020



RUSH: This afternoon in Davos, the World Economic Forum, Trump hosted a dinner with global CEOs, chief executive officers. After he spoke, Trump asked the CEOs in attendance at the dinner to introduce themselves and to say a few words about their companies.

And a billionaire from South Africa, African Rainbow Minerals, it’s a mining company, the founder, Patrice Motsepe – it’s a man, by the way. Have you heard about this guy that got canned, a columnist in Colorado, the guy got canned for writing that there are only two genders, male and female, XX and XY. He got canned.

He got fired for failing to adequately understand the sensitivity of the transgender community. He lost his job because he wrote that there are only two genders. And I hate to tell anybody, but there are only two genders. The guy understands it, he understands why he got fired, and he knows this. And it amazes me how more people haven’t understood this up to now. You’ll see what I’m talking about when I get to it.

Anyway, here is Patrice Motsepe, who is the founder of the African Rainbow Minerals mining company after Trump asked all these CEOs at the dinner he hosted to stand up and introduce themselves and say a few things.

MOTSEPE: All I wanted to say is that Africa loves America. Africa loves you.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. That’s an honor. Thank you.

MOTSEPE: And it’s very, very important. We want America to do well. We want you to do well. And the success of America is the success of the rest of the world.

RUSH: An African CEO,  on the day after Martin Luther King Day praising Trump, praising America: Africa loves America. Africa loves Trump. Want both of you to do well.