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<\/p>\nRUSH: I want to take you back to August 21st. I made a prediction on this program. I forget the context here, but I remember there was pressure on me to make some kind of big prediction about Congress\u2019 return. Snerdley challenged me or somebody did, and I came through with one, just off the top of my head, and this was it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH ARCHIVE: I\u2019m gonna predict when Congress comes back this fall that Pelosi will be forced to cave. That she will be forced to end her resistance because the entirety of her caucus is going to demand official impeachment. … They had visions already that we would be on our way to a trial in the Senate with Trump under the interrogation lights. It hasn\u2019t gone anywhere and precisely because it hasn\u2019t gone anywhere, the left is going nuts. So I think Pelosi will cave. Let me make that as my official prediction. Pelosi will cave when Congress comes back, and the Democrats will complete the trifecta of shooting themselves in the foot and Pelosi will know it the minute she authorizes it, the impeachment of Trump, with one year before the election.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And it is. She did. I mean, the Democrats announced it. They\u2019re not gonna start taking a vote. I remember, I made a point (I think it was last week as well) that Nadler\u2019s talking about impeachment and promising, but there has not been an official vote on it in his committee or anywhere in the House. The reason there wasn\u2019t a vote was precisely because Pelosi didn\u2019t want a vote. The reason she didn\u2019t want a vote was the Democrats won the House in 2018 by winning a bunch of districts where Trump prevailed in the presidential race in 2016.<\/p>\n
So the standard line of thinking is, “Okay. We\u2019ve got a lot of Trump sympathizers in these districts,” even though these people elected Democrats in the House. As everybody knows, that\u2019s not because of anything other than formula, you know, the sitting Republican or the sitting presidential party always loses seats in the first midterm election after he wins the presidency. So the Democrats know that this is largely a statistical reality coming true. It wasn\u2019t totally based in substance.<\/p>\n
So Pelosi, in other words, is not thinking that the people that voted for Trump in 2016 have decided to vote against him in 2020 just because they elected some Democrats to the House. They\u2019re still Trump sympathizers. They\u2019re still Trump voters. She doesn\u2019t want to anger them by having an official vote where these new members of Congress that won in Trump districts go on record voting for the impeachment of Trump. She lost it. The Democrat caucus demanded to do this. They\u2019re gonna do it, and Pelosi is gonna be fretting over this.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll not see it publicly. You\u2019re not gonna see her out there at her press conference worrying about it, but privately and behind closed doors she will be because now these people are gonna go on record with their impeachment vote, and there isn\u2019t a poll out there that shows the American people want Trump impeached. Now, this is interesting, too, because whereas the media has been able to create this myth… I mean, if we\u2019re to believe this ABC poll — by the way, which is a stretch.<\/p>\n
But if we\u2019re gonna believe it, 60% of their respondents think that we\u2019re on the verge of recession. That\u2019s simply because the media has been flooding the zone with that story for three weeks. But the media\u2019s also been flooding the zone with the fact that Trump is rotten and needs to be impeached. And there is no polling data that supports impeachment. There\u2019s nowhere near. You can\u2019t find a poll anywhere — other than in specific places like a couple of blocks of New York, Manhattan, or San Francisco, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
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But in a nationwide sample, you cannot find a poll where a majority of people want Trump impeached, and that\u2019s what Pelosi\u2019s worried about. Now they\u2019ve gone on record. And there\u2019s no way that this could ever come to anything. There\u2019s no way that there can ever be a trial; there\u2019s not enough time. There\u2019s no way that there will ever be a conviction in the Senate. The Republicans run the Senate. I don\u2019t care how many Never Trumpers are in there, they\u2019re not gonna give the Democrats this win. They\u2019re just not gonna do it.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s no hope of anything really happening here. Plus, depending on how intense they take this, they\u2019re gonna overshadow their own primary campaign and presidential campaign, which they may actually want to do if Biden ends up being the nominee. Like Hillary, the less he\u2019s out there, the better it is. You know, it was true for her. The less you heard from her and the less we saw her, the better her numbers were, and vice-versa. Now, grab sound bite number 8. This is Steve Cohen.<\/p>\n
This is the guy who, when somebody refused to testify before Nadler\u2019s committee, he went out and bought a bunch of Kentucky Fried Chicken, had it delivered in there to the committee, and he was eating it out of a bucket trying to convey that whoever refused to testify, whoever didn\u2019t come up was a chicken, was a coward. This guy\u2019s deranged. This guy\u2019s like the… He\u2019s not all there. He was on with Fredo last night on CNN\u2019s Fredo Prime Time. Question: “No crimes, not an agent of Russia, says Mr. Mueller, who everybody was supposed to respect.”<\/p>\n
There\u2019s nothing here, Mr. Cohen. What are you gonna impeach him over?<\/p>\n
COHEN: Over 150 contacts with his, uh, campaign with Russians. They welcomed the interference. Trump even went to television, “Russia, if you\u2019re listening…” There was a reason he said that \u2019cause he knew they were listening. We\u2019ll find out. What\u2019s in the grand jury testimony that was redacted by Barr? Trump\u2019s Roy Cohn may be the smoking gun or the arsenal or the garrison that breaks this thing free — and someday down the line, there\u2019s gonna be a reckoning and people will see that this was not only the worst the president of the United States, but one of the worst human beings to ever (sputters) grace this earth.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: They\u2019ve got nothing. This is just pure, raw hatred that you hear here from Steve Cohen. He\u2019s a Democrat from Tennessee. He\u2019s talking about, “Russia, if you\u2019re listening…” This was Trump\u2019s joke. Trump was goosing everybody, trying to find Hillary\u2019s emails. The media, nobody could find them. “Russia if you\u2019re listening, maybe you could find Hillary\u2019s emails. If you do, could you give them to our media? They\u2019re really looking very, very hard for them,” and these Democrats running around thinking Trump was actually asking the Russians to hack Hillary!<\/p>\n
They really do. I\u2019ve had people say, “Rush, they know he was joking. They\u2019re just talking.” No, they don\u2019t. They do not have a sense of humor. One other thing. “What\u2019s in the grand jury testimony redacted by Barr … Trump\u2019s Roy Cohn”? Roy Cohn is somebody that you may have heard his name, but you may not know a whole lot about him. Let me give you just a brief explanation of Roy Cohn. He was a New York attorney. He was one of Trump\u2019s friends. But he was a controversial figure in that he loved controversy. He welcomed it. He dove right into it.<\/p>\n
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When there was controversy, he tried to amplify it. He tried to make it even worse, because as far as Roy Cohn was concerned, whenever you\u2019re in the news, it\u2019s a good thing. And no matter what, it can lead to people being intimidated by you, scared by you. He was the exact opposite of most normal people. When controversy erupted, they run from it, they hide from it, they don\u2019t want to be touched by it. Roy Cohn welcomed it. He counseled his clients:<\/p>\n
“If you find yourselves in controversy, double down on it! Triple down on it. Do not run away from it no matter what you do,” and many people say that Trump was mentored by Roy Cohn and it\u2019s one of the reasons that Trump does double down on things. But he\u2019s considered a scourge only because he has a relationship with Trump. In the normal ebb and flow of things, the people now being critical of Roy Cohn would actually embrace him and like him.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Trump has also tweeted a couple things, and I\u2019m glad he did this. It\u2019s gonna get lost in the flow.<\/p>\n
They use polls to create and make public opinion, not reflect it. This is a classic illustration. Speaking of impeachment and the Democrats formally voting to do it… You talk about polling data? Folks, I\u2019m telling you, there isn\u2019t anywhere a majority of the American people want the president to be impeached. It just isn\u2019t there. And yet the Democrat base is demanding it. And they are a minority in this country, but they are demanding it. The New York Times is afraid of the Democrat base. The Democrat Party is afraid of the Democrat base.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TrumpTweetABCPoll.png\")
<\/a>But he has just tweeted his absolute disgust with this ABC News\/Washington Post poll on the recession<\/a>, calling it typical fake news, disastrous, very damaging. And he pointed out that the ABC News\/Washington Post poll that had him losing by 12 points in 2016 was so bad that he actually had his people call them and they took it down because it was so bad. But his point is, it\u2019s giving historical reference to how inaccurate the poll is — and I don\u2019t doubt it. I don\u2019t think this… They use polls to make news, not reflect it.<\/p>\n