{"id":308475,"date":"2019-05-07T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=308475"},"modified":"2019-05-08T16:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:14:50","slug":"the-coup-conspirators-must-be-held-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/05\/07\/the-coup-conspirators-must-be-held-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coup Conspirators Must Be Held Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Maureen in Boston, and it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello. I am so excited to speak to you. I\u2019m very nervous. I\u2019ve been following politics more intensely, obviously, since Trump joined. I started in 2015. And I follow very carefully a lot of like the Sara Carter and the John Solomon, and of course you every day I listen to, I feel like I\u2019m really up to speed. And I pray these people get held accountable, like Comey, Clapper, and Brennan.<\/p>\n

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But my real question is, even if we get that done and we get them, whether it\u2019s jail time or just the public to really understand what happened, will it restore Trump\u2019s name in the voters who support him? Because I\u2019ve been true to him, and I\u2019m tired of being beaten up, and I\u2019m sick of these liberals, too, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, Maureen, for somebody who claims to be a political novice, you\u2019ve actually asked a very insightful and very perceptive question. And I\u2019m glad that you got through to ask me that. ‘Cause you\u2019re asking, okay, if what we think should happen, if all of these conspirators who ran this coup, if they are indicted, and if they are tried, and if they are convicted or if they plea, if they end up getting some kind of punishment, you want to know, will it stop the hating on Donald Trump? Will it open people\u2019s eyes to what happened? Right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, stop the mob mentality. The beating up on the Sarah Sanders and the beating up on —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the question. See, I think if that happened, that would be icing on the cake. The real focus here has to be holding these people accountable. Not whether or not the American people stop hating Trump. I think the media has dredged up so much Trump hatred, so much irrational hatred for things and for him that they may be too far gone.<\/p>\n

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They did the same thing with George W. Bush. George W. Bush was ravaged and hated for being stupid and talking like a cowboy, and there was no way that George Bush was ever gonna be rehabilitatable in the eyes of public opinion. It\u2019s what the left does. Their media literally poisons people. But that shouldn\u2019t be a factor in whether or not there is accountability here.<\/p>\n

You know, I don\u2019t know how far this is gonna go. You mentioned Sara Carter and John Solomon. And for two years, I mean, you probably have been hearing that these people are gonna be held accountable, breaking news, these people are going to jail, it\u2019s gonna happen soon, and it never happens so you\u2019re getting frustrated, and you\u2019re wondering what the hell. And as you hear about all of the crimes they\u2019ve committed and how everybody\u2019s closing in on \u2019em, it doesn\u2019t seem like anybody\u2019s closing in on \u2019em, it doesn\u2019t seem like anything is gonna happen to \u2019em. You want something to happen to \u2019em. And I do too.<\/p>\n

I want there to be a real price paid for this. We\u2019re working on the cover for the next issue of The Limbaugh Letter and they gave me two different covers to choose from to try to graphically illustrate how close we came to — do you realize, folks, if these people — and let\u2019s name them, eight to 12 people, and there\u2019s more, but, I mean, you\u2019ve got Obama, then you\u2019ve got Brennan and Clapper, you\u2019ve got the FBI people, Comey. Comey and Brennan are the two guys here, along with obviously the support and the permission of Obama.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s ever gonna be held accountable, by the way. He\u2019ll be protected no matter what, former president. But the other guys, maybe. But these unelected people came so — and they\u2019re not through trying — they came so close to being able to cancel a presidential election because they simply didn\u2019t like the outcome. They concocted a gigantic lie, a series of lies and a gigantic conspiracy to prove a bunch of lies.<\/p>\n

They convinced a majority of the American people that the Russians tampered with voting machines. They came so close to destroying the sanctity of American elections, and they\u2019ve done great damage to the idea that elections are fair going forward for I don\u2019t know how long now. But if they had gotten away with this, then the deep state, the administrative state would be convinced that they could overturn any election they wanted in the future.<\/p>\n

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And the minute you take \u201cwe, the people\u201d out of the construction of the American political system, then we cease to be America as founded. And there has to be a price paid for the people who were attempting to do this. And if they are convicted and if it\u2019s told factually for all of America to know what they did, will that change people\u2019s opinion of Donald Trump? I doubt it. But it doesn\u2019t matter to me whether that happens or not.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think people\u2019s minds could be opened to what the conspirators did. Don\u2019t misunderstand. I think there could be genuine outrage at the Comeys and the Clappers. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt about that. Whether that would then translate to, “Oh, we were wrong about Trump.” I don\u2019t know. We\u2019re talking about leftists, after all.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

Grab sound bite number eight. This is The Turtle, Mitch McConnell — the Senate majority leader — this morning on the Senate floor…<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: What we\u2019ve seen is a meltdown, an absolute meltdown, an inability to accept the bottom line conclusion on Russian interference from the special counsel\u2019s report, which said, “The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Kin\u2019A!<\/p>\n