{"id":315184,"date":"2019-07-11T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=315184"},"modified":"2019-07-12T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:25:31","slug":"the-drive-bys-dont-care-about-epsteins-crimes-they-just-want-to-get-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/11\/the-drive-bys-dont-care-about-epsteins-crimes-they-just-want-to-get-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drive-Bys Don\u2019t Care About Epstein\u2019s Crimes, They Just Want to Get Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Drive-By Media, they don\u2019t care about Jeffrey Epstein. I\u2019m gonna tell you right now, the Democrat Party and the Drive-By Media don\u2019t care about the abuse of young girls. They don\u2019t care about pedophiles. Do you know how many pedophiles there are that are big donors in the Democrat Party? I can name three of them with the help of a Michelle Malkin column today<\/a>, which is just disgusting to read. I am going back and forth on whether or not I should read excerpts of it to you \u2019cause it\u2019s just disgusting.<\/p>\n

Some of the gigantic, big donors on the Democrat side who are genuine pedophiles of dubious, questionable character, and the Democrats sweep it all under the rug for the sake of money. And that\u2019s the only reason they care about Jeffrey Epstein. They don\u2019t care about what Epstein did.<\/p>\n

Why is Alex Acosta the story, the Secretary of Labor, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida in Miami? Back in 2006 when this case originally was adjudicated, why is Alex Acosta the story? Acosta didn\u2019t do anything to anybody. I\u2019ll have more on this as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n

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I told you yesterday that Acosta unloaded on someone who really is culpable on this but is also a gigantic Democrat, or was, and is not gonna get mentioned in this. But in comparison, Acosta, the labor secretary, former lawyer versus Epstein, there\u2019s no comparison. They\u2019re trying to make Acosta the story, they\u2019re trying to make Trump the story. They\u2019re trying to eliminate and erase any involvement Bill Clinton had.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve already discovered that Clinton lied about the timeline of his friendship or relationship or whatever it was with Epstein. We found out that Clinton had dinner with Epstein in 1995 which predates any acknowledged or admitted date that Clinton and Epstein got together.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t any mystery about this. Epstein\u2019s a bad guy. He\u2019s a pedophile. He\u2019s been known as a pedophile for years. The Democrats didn\u2019t care about Epstein in 2006 when this case went down. They didn\u2019t care about what he had done then. They didn\u2019t care about who he had done it to. They didn\u2019t care about the victims coming forward then. And they don\u2019t really care about it now.<\/p>\n

They care about it now for the express purpose of maybe they can get Trump because that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got, get Trump, get Trump, get Trump. Everything is about get Trump. The Drive-By Media thinks that\u2019s how they can keep the Democrat Party unified.<\/p>\n

Then here comes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blowing the premise to smithereens by taking on Pelosi and causing Pelosi to respond, now accusing Pelosi of having a bias and singling out newly elected women of color? When\u2019s the last time you ever heard of a prominent Democrat being charged with racism or bigotry or sexism or anything of the kind? “Well, it\u2019s early, Rush. They got plenty of time put this back together.”<\/p>\n

Folks, they\u2019re not together. They haven\u2019t been unified. They have been turned upside down since 2016. They have been out of sorts, disunified, turned upside down, and wandering aimlessly through the political muck since 2016. They still haven\u2019t gotten over what happened to \u2019em. And anything that looks like unity is a show of unity.<\/p>\n

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This ongoing, daily and now multiple-times-a-day insanity and lunacy is ratcheting up. There is more and more of it. And it is born of two things: What they really believe, things they hold dear, policies they really want to accomplish like the Green New Deal and free health care for illegal aliens and abortion after birth — they believe all this stuff. But they\u2019re also being motivated by their inability to get Trump.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019ve launched everything they\u2019ve got. It hasn\u2019t worked so they keep inventing new things, they\u2019re going crazier and crazier trying to get Trump. “But, Rush, but, Rush, the SDNY, they\u2019re the ones pursuing Epstein.” They\u2019re pursuing Trump, folks. If they get Epstein as an ancillary, fine. But don\u2019t be surprised the way this ends up. And I\u2019m not gonna make a prediction right now.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a rumor out there. I mentioned this. I alluded to it. I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s anything to it or not, but I\u2019ve seen it floating around a couple, three different places. The rumor goes something like Epstein has offered the SDNY to name everybody, everybody that came to his homes and shared the young girls with him in exchange for no more than five years behind bars. Now, I don\u2019t know if there\u2019s any truth to this, but it\u2019s being floated.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is that rich Democrats simply are not held accountable. Rich Democrats get away with it, rich Democrats get away with it in a court of public opinion, they get away with it in the court of law more often than not. I mean, look at Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n

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How many years have we known what Weinstein did, and they still can\u2019t make a move on the guy? He\u2019s lost his legal team now. His legal team abandoned him because it\u2019s impossible to work with him, they say. While he\u2019s without legal representation, you can\u2019t move on him. So it may be strategic that he keeps firing his lawyers or his lawyers keep quitting.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, all they care about with Epstein is getting Trump. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. I\u2019ll show you what I mean. We\u2019ll start with number two. We\u2019ve put together a montage today. Remember, now, Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s been doing what he\u2019s been doing with underage girls for decades. In 2006, it was made public.<\/p>\n

One thing about this. I have referenced this I don\u2019t know how many times, the Palm Beach police report, the chief at the time was a man named Michael Reiter, R-e-i-t-e-r. They did the investigative work. They got all of the evidence. They had mountains of evidence, and they turned it over to the Palm Beach state attorney\u2019s office, which didn\u2019t do anything with it. It\u2019s an elective office, the Palm Beach County state attorney at the time was a very active Democrat, didn\u2019t do anything with it, said there was nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

The police department in Palm Beach was beside itself. They considered this to have been some of their greatest, some of their best investigative work. It involved months. There was reams of evidence. There were witnesses. And it was just buried. And Alex Acosta mentioned this yesterday in his press conference, we have this coming up.<\/p>\n

He said, “We had to come in and do something because the real culprit here is the state attorneys office in Palm Beach County, wanted to let Epstein walk. They weren\u2019t gonna do anything.” My point here is that everybody and their uncle has known who Jeffrey Epstein is since long before 2006. But in 2006, the American public was made aware of who Epstein is, but not much, \u2019cause the Drive-Bys didn\u2019t cover it much then because there was no Trump to dump him on.<\/p>\n

Back then Epstein was solely running around with Democrat politicians, so it was time to follow the lead of the Palm Beach state attorney\u2019s office and cover the whole thing up with a shroud so that nobody could see it. But some of the news leaked out, we found out who Epstein was. Nothing happened to Epstein then. He was given a year and a half jail time, 12 hours a day, allowed to leave jail, go home, do whatever he wanted to do. I mean, the essence of a slap on the wrist.<\/p>\n

The people that have really been wronged here, the Palm Beach Police Department and people involved in the investigation back then are still livid over this. If they had consulted me, I could have told them what was gonna happen to \u2019em. I\u2019ve had my own encounters there. But I don\u2019t want to make this about me. I just have some surface personal experience with this. It\u2019s a highly politicized office. And they weren\u2019t about to take action against such a ranking, wealthy Democrat donor and fundraiser and friend of the Clintons.<\/p>\n

This is pre-Obama, don\u2019t forget. This is 2006 when this goes down. And the Palm Beach Police Department has really — I mean, the amount of work they put in on this, \u2019cause this was happening in their jurisdiction. But they\u2019re kind of like the FBI, they can\u2019t charge anybody. Have to take it to the courts, take it to the prosecutors. The prosecutors wanted to sit on it. So that\u2019s how it ended up in Acosta\u2019s office down at the U.S. attorney\u2019s office Southern District of Florida in Miami.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the montage we put together. Drive-By Media. We\u2019ve got NBC, we got ABC. We got the New York Times. We got CNN. We have NBC. We have NBC. We have PBS. We have MSNBC. Listen to all of these people talking about this.<\/p>\n

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LESTER HOLT: Tonight, the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein and its ties to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

HALLIE JACKSON: The relationship between President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

BILL RITTER: Epstein. He\u2019s rich and was once well connected to people like Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

CHRIS STIREWALT: Donald Trump was friends with Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

MICHELLE GOLDBERG: He was very close to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

CHRISTINE ROMANS: Trump and Epstein.<\/p>\n

DAVE BRIGGS: Epstein and Trump.<\/p>\n

PHIL DRUCKER: Trump and Epstein.<\/p>\n

NICOLLE WALLACE: Epstein and Trump.<\/p>\n

CHRIS HAYES: Trump and Epstein.<\/p>\n

CHARLIE SYKES: Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

ANNIE KARNI: Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

JOYCE VANCE: It is so hard to avoid the comparison between Epstein and Trump.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s very easy to avoid it. There was hardly any relationship. Trump threw him out of Mar-a-Lago once because he was soliciting young girls there<\/a>, hitting on them. Threw him out of Mar-a-Lago. This is the kind of thing that if you let it, it can infuriate you. This is such a pack of lies. This is so obviously a political hit piece.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t care about Epstein. They don\u2019t care about things that he did to young girls. This is the women party, this is the party of feminists and female advancement and making sure nothing happens to women. Isn\u2019t it strange that most of the sex predators that we learn about happen to be Democrats, who happen to be wealthy Democrats, who happen to be given a pass on all of it.<\/p>\n

These people in the media are looking so incompetent and so foolish and and so obvious. They\u2019re not fooling anybody here. Trump and Epstein? There\u2019s never been any linkage between Trump and Epstein up until the past week. Any time Epstein was in the news it was always about Clinton and always about other Democrats.<\/p>\n

When Epstein was released from his year and a half prison sentence in the Palm Beach County jail, he had a celebratory dinner. Among the people there, George Stephanopoulos, the Clinton war room and ABC News, Katie Couric of everywhere in news, and like-minded people. Donald Trump wasn\u2019t there. There wasn\u2019t anybody from the Trump Organization at Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s celebration dinner after getting out of jail, Palm Beach County jail. This is such a transparent and such an obvious case of journalistic malpractice.<\/p>\n

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Now let\u2019s move to Alex Acosta. In fact, let\u2019s not. Let me take a break so I\u2019ve got a decent amount of time on the other side. We\u2019ll go to Alex Acosta\u2019s press conference yesterday.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So whatever happened to Russia collusion? Now it\u2019s Epstein? Epstein\u2019s gonna bring down Trump? And how about the shelf life of Megan Rapinoe? She didn\u2019t even get past the Espys last night. Yesterday she was gonna take Trump out. What happened to her? Had the Espys last night, the one stage that she did not use the F-word on was the Espy stage last night. We got audio sound bites of that too.<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t believe the groveling that was going on on that show last night, men to women. Women got on the stage, they couldn\u2019t even deign to acknowledge that men were in the audience. The men on mic all did everything they could, \u201cPlease love me, I love you so much, oh, my God. We couldn\u2019t be anywhere we are without you.\u201d It\u2019s such a one-way street these days. It\u2019s kind of embarrassing in a way.<\/p>\n

But nevertheless yesterday Megan Rapinoe was gonna take Trump out, something has obviously gone wrong because now it\u2019s Epstein. Epstein got a day off yesterday. Now he\u2019s be back. What happened? And now Mueller doesn\u2019t want to testify. It means, folks, that everything they have tried to get rid of Trump has blown up.<\/p>\n

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They are no different than Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner. Literally everything blows up in their face. It is really funny to watch it. It can infuriate you if you don\u2019t watch it with the right attitude.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The audio sound bites we\u2019re up now to Alexander Acosta. He\u2019s the current labor secretary, ran the office of the Southern District of Florida, U.S. attorney\u2019s office, Southern District Florida in Miami at the time Jeffrey Epstein was sentenced to a year and a half of jail time in the Palm Beach County jail. It was Acosta\u2019s office that made the deal. He\u2019s come under incredible scrutiny.<\/p>\n

There are people who watched Acosta\u2019s press conference yesterday who aren\u2019t buying it, who think the guy ought to go, he ought to resign. He tried to make it look like they did everything possible and but didn\u2019t do anything possible or as much as possible and basically was part of the cabal that let Epstein skate.<\/p>\n

Acosta has maintained that they got the best deal they could at the time, and yesterday one of the bits of evidence — ah, not evidence. One of the reasons that he offered was that they had to take the case because the Palm Beach state attorney\u2019s office was gonna let Epstein walk and they thought that was just unacceptable.<\/p>\n

He gave an explanation of how difficult it is to get convictions with juries in cases like this because some of the victims don\u2019t want to come forward, some of them don\u2019t want to relive some of them, some of them can be destroyed on cross examination. They made the case that they pretty much got the best they could get. And there are a lot of people that think that\u2019s bogus and they\u2019re not satisfied with it, who think Acosta is trying to skate.<\/p>\n

There are people who think that Acosta was in on the deal to let Epstein walk, not just the state attorney\u2019s office in Palm Beach. There are a lot of people who think that all of law enforcement, no matter where you go, was involved in this because he was a big time political player.<\/p>\n

He was too important to too many people, raising too much money, entertaining way too many people, or a lot of people, and had a lot of dirt on a lot of people, people going in and out of Epstein\u2019s house, he supposedly has video and photographs of them and could implicate anybody he wants to who was inside. So there was a lot of fear about pursuing Epstein.<\/p>\n

But now, see, none of those concerns exist because this is an effort to get Trump. That\u2019s all this is now. Don\u2019t be fooled. Don\u2019t buy into this idea that this is about Epstein finally being held accountable. That\u2019s not what this is about. If Epstein gets caught up in it, then that will be a sad thing. The effort here is to nail Trump.<\/p>\n

The problem is that Trump doesn\u2019t have anywhere near the involvement with this guy that other high profile, well-known Democrats do. I have a couple of sound bites from Acosta\u2019s press conference yesterday. Here\u2019s the first.<\/p>\n