RUSH: It appears, ladies and gentlemen, that the people on our side still haven\u2019t learned a single lesson about how to deal with the Democrat Party and the media, the American left — of course, that\u2019s all the same group of people. It\u2019s patently obvious. It\u2019s really frustrating to me. All of this should have been anticipated. All of this was easily predictable. I think somebody I know pretty well did.<\/p>\n
And the way this is all being handled today — and people have the best intentions. The heartfelt desire to defend Jeff Sessions by pointing out the Democrat hypocrisy, when are we gonna learn that Democrat hypocrisy doesn\u2019t exist? There is no such thing as Democrat hypocrisy in the media. You\u2019re never gonna beat these people back by pointing out how they\u2019ve done the same thing that they\u2019re accusing us of doing. It\u2019s never gonna work! This story is not about Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n
By the way, greetings and welcome. Great to have you. Rush Limbaugh, 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n
This story is not about Jeff Sessions. This story is not about illegal talks between Trump and his campaign people and the Russians. This story is about Barack Obama and the Democrat Party attempting to sabotage the Trump presidency and do everything they can to either render it meaningless and ineffective or to get him impeached or force him to resign. That\u2019s what the story is. And that is what has to be attacked, not defended.<\/p>\n
We have no reason to be on defense all the time. We won the election. These people are barely hanging on. This is all they\u2019ve got. And there\u2019s no evidence, despite a year and a half of allegations of illegal contact between Trump, his campaign, and the Russians. There is no evidence.<\/p>\n
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\nNow you know why I have been harping on this almost daily for so long, because this is the only option the Democrats have open is to try to convince as many people as possible that Hillary should have won the election, that Trump is illegitimate, that Trump\u2019s victory was the result of cheating and fakery and maybe foreign espionage. That\u2019s all they\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n
Now, if you take a look at what they\u2019re doing, they\u2019re going after all of the people who are the closest advisers to Trump. They took out Rudy Giuliani right after the election with stories about his supposed ties to foreign governments. They took out Michael Flynn. And how did they do that? They decided to harp on the fact that Flynn had lied to Pence about something of tremendous, major import, forcing Trump to get rid of Flynn on the basis he\u2019s not trustworthy, the guy lied to Pence.<\/p>\n
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How are they going after Sessions? Sessions lied. Sessions lied to Franken. Now Trump has no choice but then to get rid of Sessions. This is what they\u2019re trying to do. Now, do not misunderstand me. I\u2019m not saying Sessions doesn\u2019t deserve to be defended and I\u2019m not saying this shouldn\u2019t be explained, because I\u2019m gonna do that today. I\u2019m talking about tactics and strategy, the immediate knee-jerk reaction when these allegations come is to accept their premise, and once we do that, we\u2019re cooked.<\/p>\n
No matter how much brilliance we come up with, no matter how much evidence to refute what they\u2019re saying, if we accept the premise, we\u2019re cooked. We have got to redefine what this is really all about. It is all about Barack Obama and the Democrat Party attempting to unseat President Trump. It\u2019s all about sabotage and a scandal from the highest levels of the Democrat Party. That\u2019s what is happening here. And that\u2019s what people need to be told.<\/p>\n
All of this needs to be explained to casual observers, American citizens, as to what is really going on. You know, I can play the game of defending Sessions. I\u2019ve got all the Claire McCaskill tweets that show she met with the Russian ambassador and bragged about it even though she\u2019s saying that Sessions should quit for having to do it. Sessions in his testimony during his confirmation hearings, this was not even about anything official. It was about that phony, fake dossier that the media and BuzzFeed had published.<\/p>\n
Sessions was being asked questions about a dossier that was packed full of lies that nobody even maintained was true except the media. As I say, I\u2019m gonna get to all of this in due course, but I actually think, folks, that the focus here needs to be on Obama and the Democrats and their motives. And I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s driving this is Trump\u2019s speech. Trump\u2019s speech on Tuesday night has scared the devil out of these people.<\/p>\n
They thought Trump was gonna continue to be what they think is a bumbling fool, you know, fortunately, luckily running into good things and eventually he was gonna start bumping into bad things, and he\u2019s gonna screw everything up. He didn\u2019t know politics. He didn\u2019t know the establishment. It was gonna be easy to do end runs around him, and that speech came, and in their minds, that\u2019s the greatest speech they\u2019ve ever heard, and it scared the hell out of \u2019em.<\/p>\n
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Now, they were gonna do what they\u2019re doing today anyway, but their intensity has been ratcheted up. I mean, I could point out all of the hypocrisy I want. Remember when special prosecutor was appointed for Loretta Lynch\u2019s meeting with Bill Clinton just before the election? No, you don\u2019t remember that because it didn\u2019t happen. What was at all about? The Clintons and their Crime Family Foundation were under FBI investigation. They might still be, for all we know. But we don\u2019t hear any clamoring to get to the bottom of that.<\/p>\n
It looks like the Democrats were conspiring to cover up influence peddling and God knows what else. The Clintons were out selling access to the White House and her future presidency. Last time I checked, all of this is what led to the Republicans being elected. The Democrat Party has soiled itself in front of the American people, and they don\u2019t want any more of them. That\u2019s why Trump won.<\/p>\n
You know what Sessions ought to do? “Yeah, yeah, I talked to the Russian ambassador about our grandchildren. You know, he\u2019s got some grandchildren, I got some grandchildren, that\u2019s what we were talking about.” Well, that\u2019s what Loretta Lynch and Clinton said they were talking about on the airplane one week before a decision was coming down from Comey on whatever was gonna happen with the Clinton investigation into her emails and stuff. I can point that out and you go, “Yeah, yeah, right.” And you know what it\u2019s gonna get us? Nothing!<\/p>\n
Even in the court of opinion it\u2019s gonna get us nothing because it accepts the premise that Sessions did something wrong and therefore we can mitigate that by pointing out, “Well, look what the Clintons did.” It doesn\u2019t work that way. We should learn after 30 years, it doesn\u2019t work that way. The Democrats are never held accountable for hypocrisy. There is no such thing where they are concerned in the eyes of the media and others who hold them accountable or don\u2019t. I know the desire to defend Sessions. He\u2019s a great man. He\u2019s a decent man. He\u2019s a good man.<\/p>\n
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And there\u2019s no way he would do what they want you to believe. But it\u2019s not about the reality, folks. It\u2019s about the perception — and if we accept the premise, then that sets the perception almost in stone. And they\u2019re gonna go after Sessions for the same reason that they made Trump get rid of Flynn. “He\u2019s not trustworthy. He lied to me, lied here, lied to Pence. I don\u2019t know, I gotta…” How do you not get rid of Sessions after having gotten rid of Flynn on that basis? So here come the calls from the Democrats: Impeachment! Special prosecutor!<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no evidence. Folks, there isn\u2019t any evidence of anything, except the Obama administration and its holdovers in the deep state tried to sabotage the duly elected president of the United States. That is the story! That is what is happening! And it\u2019s happening right in front of our eyes. It\u2019s not even a secret. We see the results of it every day in the New York Times, which I believe is complicit with Obama and the Democrats in this attempted sabotage. I have no doubt. A special prosecutor, everybody is clamoring for? To investigate what?<\/p>\n
What is there to investigate? Allegations? Seriousness of the charge? They\u2019re trying to isolate Trump from the people he trusts. They\u2019re trying to isolate Trump from the best people around him because they believe that Trump, without intelligence and guidance nearby, will fumble and stumble on his own because he doesn\u2019t have a brain. He doesn\u2019t have political instincts, and he doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. Now, we\u2019re told that Barack Obama was a huge statesman. “Oh, yeah, we so miss the statesman-like composure and stature of Barack Obama!”<\/p>\n
Let me ask you this off the New York Times story. I\u2019m assuming you all have heard all about all this now, and I don\u2019t need to waste time setting the table with what happened, although as I… (interruption) Know what? (interruption) Okay, well, then I\u2019ll circle back to it, but I don\u2019t want to waste a lot time reporting things that people already know, because that just accepts the premise, too. “Hey, man, look what\u2019s in the New York Times.” What\u2019s in the New York Times and what\u2019s in the Washington Post are just the latest attempts to sabotage and undermine the Trump presidency, and it had better be fought back on that basis.<\/p>\n
It had better be dealt with on that basis, not that Jeff Sessions did something wrong. Not that there is an impeachable offense here. There isn\u2019t any evidence, and they have been investigating this for over a year and a half. Hang on on that. I just want to make one point here. Because here we have the New York Times and the statesman-like aura of Barack Obama, and, “Oh, how we miss it! Oh, jeez, we long for it so much to return.” If Obama has known about all of this for all of this time, why wait until now?<\/p>\n
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Why wait until after Trump\u2019s inaugurated?<\/p>\n
Why not release what you knew about the so-called contact between Trump and his campaign people and the Russians in order to head off his election? Well, they tried, folks. Don\u2019t think they didn\u2019t try! They don\u2019t have any evidence for it. They tried all last summer. They tried all October. The New York Times had a huge piece on this in October. But they had to say — way down, buried near the end — that the officials involved in the investigation still have no evidence that there were actual contacts. Why didn\u2019t these Obama deep-state people become whistleblowers?<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve been there for four, eight years. I mean, if this has been going on this long, where were these people before today, before last week, before January? Why didn\u2019t they go to their respective inspectors general in all these departments and blow the whistle on what they supposedly knew was going on with all of this contact between Trump and his campaign and Russia? Why didn\u2019t they go to Obama? All these deep-state guys leaking all this, why didn\u2019t they go to Obama and say, “Mr. President, it\u2019s horrible what\u2019s going on out there.<\/p>\n
“The Trump campaign is talking to the Russians; they\u2019re trying to sabotage the Hillary campaign!” Well, they did, and Obama went out and said there\u2019s nothing to this. President Barack Obama back in December denied all this was going on. Here it is, and it\u2019s a Breitbart story: “Obama Crushes Conspiracy: No Evidence That Russia Tampered with Votes in Election<\/a>.” December 13, 2016, just three months ago. “No Evidence That Russia Tampered with Votes in Election — President Barack Obama emphatically denounced the conspiracy theory saying Russians successfully tampered with the American voting process.<\/p>\n “Obama dismissed the hack and the leaked emails as ‘not very interesting\u2019 and lacking ‘explosive\u2019 revelations. He puzzled as to why it was an ‘obsession\u2019 by the news media despite the knowledge that the Russians were responsible.” Yeah, they\u2019re trying, but they didn\u2019t succeed in doing anything. That\u2019s Obama in December! So what has changed? In December: “Obama Crushes Conspiracy: No Evidence That Russia Tampered with Votes in Election.” Was Obama lying then? Why would he lie? Why didn\u2019t he tell everybody?<\/p>\n He told Daily Show, Trevor Noah; it got picked up here by Breitbart. The New York Times didn\u2019t pick it up. The Washington Post didn\u2019t pick it up. But I remember telling you about it. And Obama did the same thing in March when the subject came up. Every time it came up all during last year, Obama pooh-poohed it. And you know why? Because it would have been a black mark on his administration. If the Russians had been able to hack the election while he\u2019s president, what does it say about his national security apparatus?<\/p>\n So he\u2019s out there all last year and as recently as December saying (summarized), “There\u2019s nothing to this. No evidence that Russia tampered with the votes in the election,” which is something I\u2019ve been maintaining for even longer than Obama said it. It\u2019s absurd and it\u2019s preposterous, and yet that\u2019s what they continue to build all of these allegations on is contact between the Trump campaign and the Russians. So I\u2019m just telling you, folks. The story here is not Jeff Sessions. Don\u2019t get sucked into this. The story is Valerie Jarrett moving in to the Obama family home.<\/p>\n What the hell\u2019s up with that?<\/p>\n The story here is that Barack Obama is humiliated and angry and embarrassed that his effort to transform the United States of America into some kind of socialist paradise has been interrupted, that he was the architect of the Democrat Party defeat. And that cannot stand for the history books! And so this story is all about the Democrat Party trying to rewrite history and make it look like they actually won were it not for the cheating of the Russians and Trump.<\/p>\n They\u2019re trying to convince the Europeans of this. They\u2019re doing everything they can to delegitimize Trump, his administration, his victory. That is the story that people need to focus on because there\u2019s evidence for that. There is evidence at every town hall protest. There is evidence all over this country every day that this sabotage is going on.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Absolutely! I was just asked a question: Do I think it\u2019s a mistake for Republicans to pile on and demand that Jeff Sessions recuse himself? Absolutely it\u2019s a mistake! We do this all the time, too. We eat our own, and we do this to try to show that we are “fair and balanced” and that we are “not the mean-spirited, partisan extremists the Democrats accuse us of being.” We won the freaking election! Big! It is time to stay on offense and not get defensive. Look at this story. This is the U.K. Daily Mail: “Valerie Jarrett Moves into Obama\u2019s Home in Washington<\/a>.”<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Very simply, here\u2019s what\u2019s going on. Donald Trump surprisingly was elected president. He was elected president to fix the United States. What does that mean? Fixing the United States means attempting to unpack, to unravel, to unwind, to otherwise demolish years and years and years of socialism, big-governmentism, that had crept into our society and to our government ever so slowly over years and years and years to the point that our economy is choked; to the point that our people are having trouble earning incomes that rise; to the point that 94 million Americans are out of work and yet they\u2019re all eating.<\/p>\n We are becoming very slowly but surely a welfare state dominated by the American left, which views that as their ticket to perpetual power. Meanwhile, the superpower status of the United States was also being undermine and unwound and we were going to become subservient to a global order, headquarters United Nations or wherever. This became unacceptable to millions and millions of Americans who elected someone to stop it and to hopefully roll some of it back.<\/p>\n Well, when you are going to try to unravel eight years of what Barack Obama thinks was nirvana and heaven, and his supporters think the same thing, and, further, when you\u2019re gonna try to unravel 50 years of left-wing creeping socialism, the people in Washington are not just going to sit idly by and let election results determine whether or not that happens to them. They are infuriated; they are angry; they are paranoid; they are scared. The world that they\u2019ve constructed for themselves, but not us, is the Donald Trump administration crosshairs and they\u2019re not just gonna sit idly by and let it happen.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ObamaMedvedev.jpg\")
“‘We were frankly more concerned in the run up to the election to the possibilities of vote tampering, which we did not see evidence of,\u2019 he said. ‘And we\u2019re confident that we can guard against.\u2019 During an interview with The Daily Show\u2019s Trevor Noah, Obama downplayed the hack of a private email account of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, defending his administration for revealing in October that the Russian government was connected. ‘None of this should be a big surprise,\u2019 Obama said, ‘Russia trying to influence our elections dates back to the Soviet Union.\u2019<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/RushAmerica-Anchorman-1.jpg\")
There\u2019s a story here is about how Obama and his people are running the resistance operation from that home, and that\u2019s why she\u2019s moved in. The story here is the Democrat Party being blown out of the water in election after election after election. The story here is Barack Obama\u2019s agenda has been totally reputed by the American people. It has been rejected in 2010. It was rejected in 2012. It was rejected in 2016. It was sent packing.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/JarrettOval.jpg\")
It\u2019s two miles from the White House! From the story. It\u2019s “the nerve center for their plan to mastermind the insurgency against President Trump. Obama\u2019s goal is to oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment, a family friend tells DailyMail.com,” and Obama is being aided by his long-time consiglieri, Valerie Jarrett, who\u2019s moved in to the 8200-square-foot home along with Michelle and Barack Obama. There\u2019s no doubt what\u2019s going on here, folks. It\u2019s as clear as a bell. It\u2019s even being published and written about.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TrumpDelegitimize-Him-B2.jpg\")
Now, doing all of this requires taking action that is going to frighten, infuriate, and panic — what percentage of Washington, DC, would you say, Trump is fighting? Eighty percent? Eighty, 90% of Washington, maybe 95% of Washington, DC, Donald Trump is fighting, because that\u2019s where this project to stop this transformation away from the nation as founded into something it was never intended to be must take place.<\/p>\n
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The idea that brilliance can be found in trade skills or retail sales, the idea that courage can be found and expressed by dealing with the hardship of factory work or the fact that character and decency and goodness can be found on a farm, all of that is foreign to the Washington Beltway.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TRUMPPOINTSATYOU-300x236.jpg\")
This is not an empty, blind, defend-\u2019em-at-all-costs strategy on the Trumps. I\u2019m not doing this at all. I\u2019m just trying to get everybody focused on what\u2019s really happening here. Jeff Sessions is not the story. Russian contacts during the campaign, not the story. We already know this. There\u2019s no evidence for it. Barack Obama last December said it never happened. But now we know that there is an effort to actively sabotage and undermine the Trump administration focused in Obama\u2019s home, according to the U.K. Daily Mail.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Rush-Images-CIGAR-B-1.png\")
They have nothing with which to change your mind and to make you think they are a better alternative. All they have is Russia. All they have is a phony allegation that Trump\u2019s election was fraudulent. The only thing they have is that Trump\u2019s election should not have happened. The only thing they have is that Hillary should have won and would have won if it weren\u2019t for the Russians. And we\u2019re told in the New York Times, that Obama has been collecting and preserving and saving all of this evidence.<\/p>\n