{"id":287302,"date":"2018-10-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=287302"},"modified":"2018-10-08T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:05:49","slug":"grassley-and-the-turtle-fired-up-like-weve-never-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/10\/05\/grassley-and-the-turtle-fired-up-like-weve-never-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley and the Turtle Fired Up Like We\u2019ve Never Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I mentioned Senator Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He has… I\u2019ve never seen him this animated. I\u2019ve never seen the Turtle this animated. This week, the Turtle and Grassley have been fit to be tied. Grassley still is. Grassley sent a letter late last night<\/a>. Grassley sent his letter at 4 a.m. today to… I guess he sent it to Schumer, he might have sent it to Feinstein, and in this letter he calls out Mazie Hirono, the senator from Hawaii, and Feinstein by name. Let me read just a portion of Grassley\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n

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“Indeed, if the evidence supported your client\u2019s allegations, you surely would produce it as quickly as you could. But you have repeatedly refused to produce this evidence to the Senate. In doing so, you are preventing the Senate from considering the evidence most crucial to Dr. Ford\u2019s allegations. I don\u2019t know what other inference we should draw from your refusal but that the withheld evidence does not support Dr. Ford\u2019s allegations in quite the way you have claimed.”<\/p>\n

This is the polygraph he\u2019s talking about, the notes with the polygraph, and the therapist notes. Feinstein and the Democrats have not produced those, even though Blasey Ford admitted that she took a lie detector — well, her lawyers did — and that she had seen a therapist. And Grassley\u2019s been asking for that evidence, and Feinstein and the Democrats have not produced it. He\u2019s saying, “You have repeatedly refused to produce this, and in doing so, you\u2019re preventing the Senate from considering the evidence most crucial to Dr. Ford\u2019s allegations.”<\/p>\n

She passed a lie detector? We want to see it!<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t let him see it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what other inference we should draw from your refusal but that the withheld evidence does not support [her] allegations in quite the way you have claimed.\u201d It\u2019s a reasonable thing to say. They\u2019re out there saying she took a lie detector, that she passed a lie detector, that she told all these details to her therapist. Well, let\u2019s see that stuff! And they won\u2019t produce it!<\/p>\n

Grassley\u2019s saying: You must have something to hide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, he writes, “I urge you once again, now for the third time in writing, to turn over the therapy notes, polygraph materials, and communications with the Washington Post that Dr. Ford has relied upon as evidence. In addition to the evidence I requested in my October 2 letter, in light of recently uncovered information, please turn over records and descriptions of direct or indirect communication between Dr. Ford or her representatives and any of the following:<\/p>\n

“(1) U.S. senators or their staffs, particularly the offices of Senators Feinstein and Hirono… (2)the alleged witnesses identified by Dr. Ford (Leland Keyser, Mark Judge, Patrick ‘P. J.\u2019 Smythe); and (3) Debbie Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, or their representatives.” What Grassley\u2019s getting at here is: How much consultation have you had with this witness? Senator Feinstein, Senator Hirono, how much time have you spent with this witness discussing her testimony or coaching her or whatever?<\/p>\n

I mean, he\u2019s loaded for bear. This is the kind of collegiality violation — and I shouldn\u2019t call it that. This is the kind of decorum that you don\u2019t see broken. Senators don\u2019t challenge each other. They don\u2019t call each other out. It\u2019s almost… It\u2019s Senate rules. And Grassley yesterday during a joint Republican press conference…<\/p>\n