{"id":322802,"date":"2019-09-23T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=322802"},"modified":"2019-09-24T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T20:59:04","slug":"ukraine-scandal-will-be-the-end-of-biden-not-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/09\/23\/ukraine-scandal-will-be-the-end-of-biden-not-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Scandal Threatens to Take Out Biden, Not Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know what\u2019s really funny about this Ukraine business, folks? What\u2019s really funny about it to me is that Biden doesn\u2019t realize that this is an effort to take him out! And it began in June with an ABC News report on this very act of corruption that Biden committed<\/a>! And I highlighted that story back in June. You can see it at RushLimbaugh.com.<\/p>\n

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I went back and looked at it today, and it was clear that the Drive-By Media, ABC had decided — and we now know that it\u2019s true \u2013 they\u2019ve been trying to take Biden out for a long time, and that\u2019s what the real possibility of this ultimately is, not Trump.<\/p>\n

Anyway, great to be back here, folks. I know it\u2019s been a nail-biter of a weekend for you as we\u2019ve once again had to put up with a bunch of hysteria from the Drive-By Media as they think they\u2019ve got the next Russian collusion story, the next obstruction of justice or whatever it is, they think they\u2019ve got it. This time they\u2019re gonna get him. This time they\u2019re gonna get Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

No, they are not. In fact, things are trending away from them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, in Ukraine, let me jump back to this for a second \u2019cause I\u2019m trying to put all this in perspective here without focusing on the, “Oh, my God. Trump\u2019s in trouble, oh, my God. What are we gonna do?” \u2019cause I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the case here. I don\u2019t feel any different about this than I did on Friday. He can talk to whoever he wants to. What this does is actually establish the intelligence community is spying on the guy. He\u2019s been right all along.<\/p>\n

He can talk to whoever he wants. Besides that, Biden did all of this stuff that Trump is accusing him of. Biden did it. We\u2019ve got it on tape! We got Biden admitting all of this stuff. That\u2019s why I think that Biden is actually gonna be the ultimate victim here.<\/p>\n

Oh. Oh. oh. Wait. This is an anniversary, before I get back to this. Audio sound bite number 9. You have audio sound bites number 9? This is September 23rd, 1987. This very day back in 1987, the late Peter Jennings of ABC News.<\/p>\n

JENNINGS: The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is the man in the dock for using other people\u2019s words without credit and being less than truthful about the credits he received at law school and at college.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Right. So what\u2019s this all about? Well, we go to audio sound bite number 10, same date, September 23rd, 1987, Capitol Hill, Senator Joe Biden held a presser.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: I do it with incredible reluctance and it makes me angry. I\u2019m angry at myself for having been put in the position, put myself in the position of having to make this choice. And I am no less frustrated with the environment of presidential politics. Be that as it may, I\u2019ve concluded that I will stop being a candidate for president of the United States<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: That\u2019s a unique way of saying, “I will stop being a candidate.\u201d I mean, he quit! He resigned the race because of the plagiarism charge. He literally stole word-for-word a speech by the Labor Party leader in the U.K. at the time, a genuine lunatic named Neil Kinnock.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s out there, I mean, even Kinnock\u2019s life story of growing up on a pig farm, in a pig sewer or whatever, Biden stole that! He changed the animal from pig to something else, but he stole everything about it. He got caught big time, had to quit the presidential race. Today is the anniversary of that.<\/p>\n

And I think we\u2019re close, not imminently, but we are close to the fact that what this really is gonna end up being is a way to nudge Plugs out of the race because he did it. He threatened, blackmailed, all kinds of things, the Ukrainian government to benefit his kid. He handpicked and chose a prosecutor. Everything Trump is saying about this is correct.<\/p>\n

And how about the height of hypocrisy? All these media people, Democrats, running around wringing their hands, \u201cOh, it\u2019s so horrible, how dare you ask a foreign country to dig up dirt on a presidential candidate.\u201d (laughing) Have you ever heard of Hillary Clinton? A foreign government to help dig up dirt? Ever heard of Steele, Christopher Steele, the Steele dossier? You ever heard of the Russians and the FBI and the DOJ working with the U.K. to try to plant spies in the Trump campaign? Are these people this dumb?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna read you a quote here, a tweet — well, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a tweet, but it\u2019s a report from Jeffrey Toobin, who\u2019s the legal analyst at CNN. It was posted by Paul Sperry. And here\u2019s the tweet: “CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin without a hint of irony says he\u2019s scandalized by a president using a foreign power to investigate a private citizen for political gain: \u2018Could anyone even conceive of a president of the United States doing something like this?!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So the question, are they really this dumb? I\u2019m seriously asking the question. Are they this dumb? Do they not know how Obama\u2019s DOJ, FBI, all of that, ran this scam, this private, silent coup to get Donald Trump\u2019s election victory reversed and then to get him impeached? They must still think that Trump colluded with the Russians.<\/p>\n

In fact, people say Antonio Brown\u2019s lost his mind. I think the Democrats ought to recruit him as a candidate because it\u2019s like minds. He has lost his mind, but so have they. They are running around still acting like Trump colluded with Russia. They are tweeting it, they\u2019re writing about it, they\u2019re speaking about it on TV. They\u2019ve got themselves convinced it happened and they\u2019ve got themselves convinced that Mueller reported it in his report, when he didn\u2019t!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gone beyond delusional now. They need therapy. These people literally need help. They are so lost in all this. \u201cHe\u2019s scandalized by a president using a foreign power to investigate a private citizen for political gain: \u2018Could anyone even conceive of this?\u2019 Yes, Obama, 2016!\u201d<\/p>\n

Make book on it! It\u2019s a genuine question. Are they really this dumb? Are they really this stupid? Or is it just they live in such a tiny tunnel-vision world that nothing outside it gets in? And they get themselves believing that Trump colluded and that\u2019s it, he did. The fact that Mueller didn\u2019t report it doesn\u2019t matter. It did. They\u2019re gonna impeach him for it. He colluded; he obstructed. Nothing exists in the form of proof. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re sticking with it as a political strategy or they\u2019re really this out of it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Anyway, here\u2019s the Ukraine scandal, in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen. Then-Vice President Biden threatened and blackmailed the country of Ukraine to stop investigating his son, Hunter Biden. Current President Trump suggested that Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden\u2019s likely corrupt business arrangement. Ukraine originally wanted to prosecute before Biden\u2019s threats. Ukraine wanted to look into this. They don\u2019t like being used the way they have.<\/p>\n

By the way, the Democrat National Committee used Ukraine to investigate the Trump campaign. That\u2019s Paul Manafort like you cannot believe. And Andy McCarthy has the best ever written words on the subject. It\u2019s a chapter in his book, Ball of Collusion<\/a>. I read an excerpt of the chapter at National Review over the weekend, triangulating Manafort, Obama, Clinton, and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The Democrat National Committee colluded with Ukraine to come up with phony allegations against Manafort as a way of getting Trump. Ukraine\u2019s in the middle of so much of this stuff because the Democrats have put them there! Then-Vice President Biden threatened and blackmailed Ukraine to stop investigating his son, Hunter.<\/p>\n

Current President Trump suggests the Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden\u2019s likely corrupt business arrangement that Ukraine originally wanted to prosecute before Biden threatened them if they did. Joe Biden has admitted that he meddled to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired, but he denied knowing about his son\u2019s business dealings.<\/p>\n

But his own son, Hunter Biden, says his father did know about his business dealings. This is a much bigger problem when all of the confusion is stripped away, this a much bigger problem for Biden than it will ever be for Trump.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Biden. This is January 23rd, 2018, a year and a half ago. He\u2019s at the Council on Foreign Relations, and he is bragging about how he influenced the prosecution in a case against his son in Ukraine. It goes by pretty quickly. It\u2019s just 11 seconds, but here it is.<\/p>\n