{"id":301339,"date":"2019-02-27T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=301339"},"modified":"2019-02-28T15:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:59:12","slug":"tom-steyers-show-trial-descends-into-dossier-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/27\/tom-steyers-show-trial-descends-into-dossier-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Steyer\u2019s Show Trial Descends Into Dossier Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I think it\u2019s already falling apart on \u2019em. I\u2019ll tell you why here in just a second. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re getting out of this what they thought they were gonna get. And one of the reasons for that, I don\u2019t think they thought the Republicans were gonna be this combative.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you something, though. Jim Jordan has been extraordinary. Jim Jordan has been over-the-top great today, Republican, Ohio. Mark Meadows, North Carolina, they have been the primary questioners. Whenever it\u2019s a Republican\u2019s turn, they defer. Some other Republicans, not just those two, Mark Green of Tennessee was awesome. A number of them have been great. But Meadows and Jordan are carrying the water, and they\u2019re destroying this guy.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve already forced him to expose one lie that he\u2019s given under testimony. When that happens, I mean, CNN, CNN was forced to report this, and they\u2019re wringing their hands about it because once he lies one time, once he is caught lying one time, everything becomes suspect. They should have known that going in. The guy\u2019s going to jail in two months for lying to Congress. They bring him back \u2019cause that\u2019s the best they\u2019ve got. I cannot emphasize this enough.<\/p>\n<p>Look at all they\u2019ve got wrapped up in Cohen today. Not Robert Mueller, not McCabe, not Comey. These are not the people brought out to testify what a reprobate Donald Trump is. The creme de la creme of American law enforcement and intelligence? No. They\u2019re nowhere to be found. Many of them have been fired. Many of them have retired. Many have been let go. No McCabe, no Comey, no Rosenstein, no Strzok Smirk, no Page, none of these people, no Bruce Ohr, no James Baker, the legal counsel the FBI, none of these people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Trump-Dossier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Trump-Dossier.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Trump-Dossier-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Who do they have? Michael Cohen. An admitted perjurer and liar and going to jail for it is the best they can do. Tom Steyer, who I think has blown a lot of money on the impeachment effort, Tom Steyer\u2019s a big Democrat climate change idiot. He either believes it or he\u2019s part of the hoax, one of the two. He\u2019s already spent many millions of dollars donating to Democrats the past two years getting assurances from them that they would move rapidly to impeach Donald Trump. He is dissatisfied. Tom Steyer is not happy. He thinks he has wasted his money.<\/p>\n<p>I believe Tom Steyer is very much involved in the fact that this hearing is happening at all today. I think that Lanny Davis and Tom Steyer probably got hold of Elijah Cummings and coordinated having these hearings today. These hearings are occurring under the auspices of oversight, but that\u2019s not what this is. There\u2019s no oversight of the executive branch. This is a legitimate congressional role. This is a political trial. This is a show trial. That\u2019s why some people are referring to it as Stalinist. Because a show trial of Donald Trump is what this is, and it\u2019s actually the first real step toward impeachment the Democrats have taken. And Tom Steyer is hip deep in this.<\/p>\n<p>A story today from TheHill.com: &#8220;Billionaire philanthropist Tom Steyer said in an interview that aired Wednesday &#8230; that he doesn\u2019t think there is any doubt that Michael Cohen\u2019s testimony before Congress will change the minds of some of the president\u2019s supporters. He said that the real focus of the hearing should be whether there is a &#8216;smoking gun\u2019 that shows President Trump does not belong in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not that Donald Trump broke the law. Not that Donald Trump is doing illegal things. That he does not belong in office. That\u2019s been the Democrat assertion since the get-go. Trump is not qualified because he\u2019s an ogre. He\u2019s not qualified because of the color of his hair. He isn\u2019t qualified because of the way he speaks. He isn\u2019t qualified because he\u2019s not sophisticated, he doesn\u2019t have the educational pedigree, all of these things the elites use to exclude people from their membership.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I don\u2019t think there is any question that it can shift the dynamic. I think the question will be, does it make it clear, which I believe it will, that Mr. Trump has committed crimes while in office.\u201d Have no doubt, Democrat donors are behind this hearing today. Steyer is one of them. And Lanny Davis working with Elijah Cummings to schedule this and then with Pencil Neck Shift tomorrow. This is not oversight, folks. This is politics, pure and simple, which, on one hand, is standard operating procedure.<\/p>\n<p>But under the auspices of oversight &#8212; you know, they\u2019ve tried to say these are the equivalent of the Watergate hearings. No, they\u2019re not the equivalent of the Watergate hearings! But since that\u2019s the last time that the Democrats and the media were able to force a Republican president out of office of course it remains the operative objective and the event that all else will be compared to. But this is beginning to fall apart. And not just because Cohen has been caught lying. Again, to repeat. Cohen has been caught lying by Jim Jordan. Grab audio sound bite number 28.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: How long did you work in the White House?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: I never worked in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: That\u2019s the point, isn\u2019t it, Mr. Cohen?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: No, sir.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: Yes, it is.<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: No, it\u2019s not, sir.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: You wanted to work in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: No, sir.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: You didn\u2019t get brought to the dance.<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: Sir &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: Now &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Tom-Steyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Tom-Steyer.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Tom-Steyer-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>COHEN: &#8212; I was extremely proud to be personal attorney to the president of the United States of America. I did not want to go to the White House. I was offered jobs. I can tell you a story of Mr. Trump reaming out Reince Priebus because I had not taken a job where Mr. Trump wanted me to.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That is such a lie, CNN had to begrudgingly acknowledge it. First Eric Trump tweets, &#8220;Cohen was lobbying everyone to be chief of staff. It was the biggest joke in the campaign and around the office.&#8221; Donald Trump Jr.: &#8220;Eric nails it. It really was the biggest joke of the entire transition. The beginning of his bitterness was when he realized that was never going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t take those guys\u2019 word for it \u2019cause you might say the Trumps are biased. Let\u2019s go to the sentencing report. I forgot to send the link up to Koko. I\u2019m sure they found it by now. If not, I\u2019ll send it up. But you can read the sentencing report yourself. But I want to read a couple of excerpts from it. Keep sound bite 28 standing by. I\u2019m gonna go back to it after this.<\/p>\n<p>Southern District of New York, the sentencing report on Cohen. &#8220;During and after the campaign Cohen told friends and colleagues, including in seized text messages, that he expected to be given a prominent role and title in the administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, you just heard Cohen say that he didn\u2019t want to work in the White House. No, no, no, no, I did not want to work in the White House. I liked being independent. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5453401-SDNY-Cohen-sentencing-memo.html\">the sentencing report from the SDNY<\/a>, page 24: &#8220;This was not an act of blind loyalty. Cohen relished the status of ultimate fixer.&#8221; The Southern District even says that he lied at his sentencing, blaming his accountant for underreporting income to the IRS when the Southern District says that he did not provide his accountant with the information they needed.<\/p>\n<p>So sentencing report during and after the campaign, Cohen told friends and colleagues that he expected to be given a prominent role and title in the administration. Here\u2019s the sound bite again.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: How long did you work in the White House?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: I never worked in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: That\u2019s the point, isn\u2019t it, Mr. Cohen?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: No, sir.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: Yes, it is.<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: No, it\u2019s not, sir.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: You wanted to work in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: No, sir.<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: You didn\u2019t get brought to the dance.<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: Sir &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>JORDAN: Now &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: &#8212; I was extremely proud to be personal attorney &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-0000001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-0000001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-0000001-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: That\u2019s it. I want to move on to the next sound bite. Fox News just flashed a breaking news alert out there. I\u2019m holding this breaking news alert in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. \u201cCohen says he has never been to Prague, refuting key Russia collusion claim of Steele dossier. Michael Cohen, President Trump\u2019s former attorney, said he has never been to Prague, refuting a key Russia collusion claim of the Steele dossier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, folks, I guess the Democrats asked him about this, and that, to me, shows they have reached the bottom of the barrel. Because Cohen has a answered this question a thousand times since the Steele dossier was revealed. He has revealed that he never went to Prague. The Steele dossier said he did go to Prague to facilitate a meeting with Russians on behalf of President Trump. He\u2019s never been to Prague. His passport shows he\u2019s never been to Prague. Nothing about his existence says he\u2019s ever been to Prague.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t breaking news! And it\u2019s not the first time the Steele dossier has been refuted. The Steele dossier is known to be bogus for years now! This is a big bugaboo this continues to be reported as a legitimate document because that\u2019s why we have the Mueller investigation and that\u2019s why we got the FISA warrants to spy so everybody\u2019s trying to stand on the fact that it was legitimate and it was the reason for this investigation. And it\u2019s been bogus from the get-go! It\u2019s Hillary Clinton opposition research. You know all this.<\/p>\n<p>So here today in the hearings, the Democrats ask &#8212; or I\u2019m sure the Republicans asked you\u2019ve ever been to Prague, and he says no. But then the Democrats got even more desperate. Here is Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat, Maryland, asking Cohen about Trump possibly being blackmailed.<\/p>\n<p>RASKIN: Are you aware of anything that the president has done at home or abroad that may have subjected him to, or may subject him to, extortion or blackmail?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: I am not, no.<\/p>\n<p>RASKIN: Okay. Are you aware of any videotapes that may be the subject of extortion or blackmail?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: I\u2019ve heard about these tapes for a long time. I\u2019ve had many people contact me over the years. I have no reason to believe that that tape exists.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know what that\u2019s in reference to? What do you think that\u2019s in reference to? That\u2019s the golden showers. This guy, this Democrat, Jamie Raskin, is, without mentioning it, asking Cohen if he\u2019s got evidence that Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed in a Moscow hotel that Obama and Michelle (My Belle) Obama had slept on. That\u2019s what he\u2019s asking. \u201cWell, I\u2019ve heard about those.\u201d He didn\u2019t have the guts to specify what is on these tapes, but that\u2019s what he\u2019s asking about.<\/p>\n<p>If they\u2019re asking about Prague, and the Democrats are asking about the golden showers, that, to me, is bottom of the barrel. There isn\u2019t a shred of evidence for the golden showers story. It\u2019s one of the big jokes, one of the big disqualifiers of the dossier, in fact. But they believe it.<\/p>\n<p>We had a call a couple days ago, this is Wednesday, so Monday we had a caller who told me that he thinks that I\u2019m wrong, that the Democrats don\u2019t really believe this climate change stuff, and they don\u2019t really believe all this other outrageous stuff. They\u2019re just saying they do \u2019cause they know their base does and they\u2019re fundraising off of it.<\/p>\n<p>They believe it. Folks, these people are so poisoned with animus and hatred, they believe this golden showers stuff. You might say, \u201cNo Rush, they don\u2019t. They just hope it\u2019s true.\u201d They believe it. Forty-two percent of the American people think the Russians tampered with votes and affected the outcome of an election after two years of Russian collusion. If average, ordinary Americans think it, what about dumb, deadbeat Democrats? Do not think they don\u2019t believe this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that they believe all of this crazy BS is what is propelling them trying to find evidence for it! If they didn\u2019t believe it, there would be no quest for the evidence, folks, because that would make fools of them. If they really knew that there was no golden showers that ever happened, if they knew the dossier was fake, they wouldn\u2019t be pursuing it! Now, some of them know, like Mueller and his bunch, they know it\u2019s all bogus. But some of these elected Democrats on committees, I think they\u2019re as brainwashed as their brain-dead voters have been propagandized.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-286666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-Black-Flag-010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-Black-Flag-010.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ZZ-APP-Rush-Black-Flag-010-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: I am told, ladies and gentlemen, that Jamie Raskin was not asking about the golden showers tape but instead was asking about whether Cohen knew about the elevator tape, which is the tape where Trump allegedly struck and clobbered his wife, Melania. And Jackie Speier picked up that line of questioning. She\u2019s a Democrat from California asking Cohen about an elevator tape allegedly showing Trump hitting Mrs. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: There\u2019s an elevator tape that went up for auction &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: &#8212; ostensibly in 2016, is that correct?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: Yes, I\u2019ve heard about this.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: And who was on that tape?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: It\u2019s Mr. Trump with Melania.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: And what happened in that tape?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: The story goes that he, um, struck Melania while in that elevator because there\u2019s a camera inside, which I\u2019m not so sure &#8212; actually, I\u2019m certain it\u2019s not true. I\u2019ve heard about that tape for years. I don\u2019t believe that auction was real, and I don\u2019t believe anybody &#8212; I don\u2019t believe Mr. Trump ever struck Mrs. Trump ever. I don\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: You never saw this tape?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: No, ma\u2019am. And I know several people who went to go try to purchase it for catch-and-kill purpose. It doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: All right.<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: Mr. Trump would never &#8212; in my opinion, it\u2019s &#8212; that\u2019s not something &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: Good to know. Good to know.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;Good to know&#8221;? &#8220;Good to know&#8221;? There is a word for a woman like this. You think they don\u2019t believe this crap, folks? You want to try to tell me again they don\u2019t believe it? This idiot, Jackie Speier, really believes that there is a tape that went up for auction that shows Trump hitting his wife. And she was convinced that this guy would know it, that Cohen would know it.<\/p>\n<p>And he says he doesn\u2019t believe it exists and he doesn\u2019t think the elevator video exists at all and that there was no auction. The whole thing\u2019s a hoax, but of course he\u2019s a liar, so Democrats will say, \u201cWhat do you expect? He\u2019s already been lying under oath here today. Maybe he\u2019s lying about this.\u201d They believe this stuff. Then she wasn\u2019t through. Jackie Speier wasn\u2019t through. Next she accused Donald Trump of having a love child.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: Is there a love child?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: There is not, to the best of my knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: So you would pay off someone to not report &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: It wasn\u2019t me, ma\u2019am. It was AMI. It was David Pecker.<\/p>\n<p>SPEIER: So he paid off someone about a love child that doesn\u2019t exist?<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: Correct. It was about $15,000.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: So somebody alleges that Trump has an illegitimate child and they\u2019re gonna try to kill the story, and pay $15,000 to kill it, and what, that\u2019s a mistake, they should have let the story run, Ms. Speier? What\u2019s the criminality here? Somebody\u2019s out there spreading lies about Trump beating up his wife and having a love child, when in fact how many Democrats do have love children? In fact, how many Democrats want to kill children today? How many Democrats are making the case that abortion after birth is something that women ought to have the right to do? Don\u2019t tell me these people don\u2019t believe this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But this, to me, is evidence that this hearing has already fallen apart. If they\u2019re having to ask, wouldn\u2019t you agree with this, Mr. Snerdley, if they\u2019re having to ask questions like this, it means they\u2019ve run out of stuff. It\u2019s totally disgraceful, under the guise of oversight? This is the Democrats taking an opportunity to ask questions about every perverted lie they think is real. &#8220;Were you ever in Prague? Have you ever seen the golden showers story? What about Trump beating up his wife? Have you ever seen that? Huh? Huh?\u201d Man, oh, man.<\/p>\n<p>I actually wish a whole lot of people could see this. I can\u2019t imagine that the sound bites we\u2019ve just played for you are gonna get much airtime in the Drive-By Media. Although they might. You know what? The people in the media believe this crap, too! They believe Trump would hit his wife. They believe the golden showers. They might actually play this question and not play his answer!<\/p>\n<p>I can see CNN, MSNBC putting together a montage of questions that Cohen was asked to illustrate what a reprobate Trump is and play Jackie Speier asking, \u201cIs there a love child? Have you ever seen the videotape where Trump beat up his wife?&#8221; And not play Cohen\u2019s answers and just let the fact that the questions were asked, set the stage for the fact that, yeah, it must have happened because these Democrats are asking Cohen about it. Don\u2019t be surprised if they try that, folks. These are the people that doctor 911 tapes in the George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin case. Remember, NBC News did that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, folks. I have to correct myself yet again. This happens when I\u2019ve got four or five different people telling me things. It turns out that Jamie Raskin was asking about the golden showers tape. Jackie Speier was asking about the elevator tape where supposedly Trump hit his wife, Melania. But both The Daily Caller and Vanity Fair are confirming that the question Cohen got from Jamie Raskin was about the golden showers tape.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller headline: &#8220;Cohen: &#8216;I Have No Reason to Believe\u2019 Trump Pee Tape Exists,&#8221; and the Vanity Fair one: &#8220;&#8216;I\u2019ve Had Many People Contact Me Over the Years\u2019: Cohen Addresses the Pee Tape &#8212; The president\u2019s former lawyer is finally asked about the salacious Steele Dossier.&#8221; When that happens, I\u2019m telling you, they\u2019ve hit the bottom of the barrel &#8212; when they start asking about the dossier, which everybody acknowledges is bogus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APP-022719-Cohen-Testify-4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Now, not everybody knows it\u2019s bogus. That\u2019s the problem. The Drive-By Media, many of them still maintain that it\u2019s real because it formed the basis of the Mueller special counsel investigation and the FISA warrants. But anybody that has even a smidgen knowledge about this knows full well that the whole thing is Hillary Clinton oppo research, and yet the Democrats asked about it today. They know this is bogus. Maybe&#8230; (chuckles)<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know. Some of these people&#8230; Folks, we\u2019re dealing with some really dumb, closed-minded people on the Democrat side of things &#8212; and not just today, but every day &#8212; including in the media. So when they start asking about, &#8220;Have you seen that tape where Trump beat up his wife?&#8221; &#8220;I don\u2019t think that tape exists. We tried to track it down. We couldn\u2019t.&#8221; &#8220;What about what about the pee tape &#8212; you know, from the dossier &#8212; where Trump hired prostitutes to pee?&#8221; &#8220;I have not seen that tape. We don\u2019t we know if it exists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that they asked about it? I can\u2019t tell you how bottom of the barrel they have gone now. And they\u2019ve lost&#8230; Mr. Snerdley, look at this. They have lost Dianne Feinstein. DiFi tweeted&#8230; She\u2019s the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee in the Senate. She was asked if she\u2019s watching the hearings. She said, &#8220;It\u2019s on, but I\u2019m doing other things. I think [Cohen] has a credibility problem.&#8221; She is one of the most partisan anti-Trump Democrats in that town, and if she is willing to throw Cohen overboard, then Elijah Cummings had better start paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, Senator Lindsey Grahamnesty has tweeted his reaction to the check, a visual aid. Cohen brought a visual aid that was a canceled check that Trump wrote him for $35,000, and Cohen is saying that this check was one of many checks during the year to reimburse him for paying off porn stars and other such things. Lindsey Grahamnesty said, &#8220;If you\u2019re trying to hide a crime, you probably wouldn\u2019t write a check,&#8221; unless you\u2019re Jussie Smollett, in which case you do write a check to the muggers.<\/p>\n<p>But normally if you\u2019re trying to hide a crime, you don\u2019t write a check.<\/p>\n<p>Makes sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Greg in Cleveland as we head back to the phones. Thank you for waiting, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. My aunt, my great aunt first introduced me to you many years ago, and I\u2019ve been a dedicated listener ever since. It\u2019s an honor to be a first-time caller today.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes. What occurred to me this morning when I was listening to the testimony was, after he got into it for, oh, about 20 minutes, it sounded to me like he was testifying on behalf of the Drive-By Media. All the talking points, all&#8230; He was just repeating the same narrative that we\u2019ve been hearing for the last 2-1\/2 years on a tape loop. &#8220;He\u2019s a mean boss. He\u2019s unfair. He cheats on his taxes! He\u2019s a racist. He\u2019s a misogynist. He\u2019s anti-Semitic. He doesn\u2019t pay his workers. He\u2019s a philanderer. He\u2019s cruel to babies.&#8221; But nothing on Russian collusion, the main focus of the investigation, nothing.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yep! That is exactly right. And that is actually a very on-point observation. You say that he hit all the talking points of the Drive-By Media, but they are also the talking points of the Democrat Party. The media and Democrat Party are inseparable, particularly in this. And everything Cohen said can be traced back to something the media has been trying to sell for two years and that the Democrats have been trying to sell. The coordination here is unmistakable, from Hillary Clinton to Lanny Davis and then to Elijah Cummings and some of the other Democrats on the committee, and you\u2019re absolutely right:<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about Russia!<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about collusion with Russia!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-293325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-112918-Russia-Hacking.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-112918-Russia-Hacking.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-112918-Russia-Hacking-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>And Cohen even early on debunked the idea. He made it clear that he didn\u2019t have any knowledge of that and was not gonna be helpful. But, look, I hate being redundant, but I know people are tuning in and out. Again, I think it\u2019s important. Folks, I think the fact that before the lunch break &#8212; which just happened, by the way. They\u2019re in a brief recess. The Democrats had nothing left but than to try to ask Cohen about the golden showers pee tape and whether or not Trump had hit his wife.<\/p>\n<p>These are two hoaxes. The golden showers is a hoax in the dossier, and there\u2019s another hoax: A video that doesn\u2019t exist that\u2019s said to be out there on auction where Trump is seen in an elevator slugging his wife. Cohen debunked both. But the Democrats went there already? That means they\u2019ve got nothing. They don\u2019t have anything. Now, they\u2019re gonna get headlines. The media\u2019s gonna help \u2019em portray this as something that it wasn\u2019t today, but they don\u2019t, in real terms, have anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I think it&#039;s already falling apart on &#039;em. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":301356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tom Steyer&#039;s Show Trial Descends Into Dossier Lies - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/27\/tom-steyers-show-trial-descends-into-dossier-lies\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tom Steyer&#039;s Show Trial Descends Into Dossier Lies - 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