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<\/p>\nRUSH: The Trump campaign has known all along that this impeachment stuff was coming, but, again — and I know this is gonna be very hard for you to just take my word for it because you\u2019re gonna hear the opposite in so many places, but what — in fact, grab sound bite number 11, will you? Have it standing by here.<\/p>\n
What Nancy Pelosi has done here is not moved the impeachment ball down the road. She did what she did to placate this out-of-their minds base on the Democrat side and some of the out of-their minds members of her caucus in the House. It\u2019s still nothing other than an inquiry. There are no articles of impeachment drawn up. They\u2019re not about to be ready and be presented to the Senate. There is no trial scheduled, nothing has happened. Nothing any different than what was the situation before Pelosi made her announcement yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n
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It was sleight of hand. Until there is a vote on the floor of the House on an official impeachment resolution, there is no official impeachment. What there is is an inquiry, which allows them to request documents and then charge obstruction. Again, all they\u2019re doing is setting up circumstances where they can continue the ongoing, never-ending accusations. And they are totally made up! They\u2019re lying through their teeth about the allegation. Doesn\u2019t matter. Two and a half years of promising everybody Trump colluded with Russia. No evidence. There never was any. They\u2019re just recycling it.<\/p>\n
If you want to know what\u2019s going on, simply think Steele dossier. Think of this transcript, what they say is in the transcript as a Steele dossier version 2. Or think of it as Christine Blasey Ford being dragged out of California to come forth in a last-ditch effort to get rid of Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the same play from the same playbook being run with different issues, with different allegations, with different outrageous Trump behaviors. But there is nothing new. The objective remains overturning the election results of 2016.<\/p>\n
Last night during special coverage of Pelosi\u2019s announcement of an impeachment inquiry, Bret Baier of Special Report with Bret Baier talked to Andy McCarthy, former federal prosecutor, said, “Andy, what are your thoughts on this as it\u2019s developing here right before our eyes? What do you think?”<\/p>\n
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MCCARTHY: I think this may be actually a pretty sophisticated way for Speaker Pelosi to put the brakes on this thing. Just having an impeachment inquiry is kind of like a prosecutor convening a grand jury. It doesn\u2019t require you to do anything. It doesn\u2019t require you actually to return charges or return an indictment, but it is the appearance of progress in an investigation.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Bingo. Bingo. There you go. It is the appearance. They want, and the media\u2019s doing everything they can to assist, they want the country to think impeachment charges have been made. They want the country to think that Trump is now impeached. That is how outrageous this is. The situation today is no different than it was an hour before Pelosi made her announcement.<\/p>\n
What Andy\u2019s point is, the sleight of hand, while not advancing the ball at all, while not moving Congress further down the road toward impeachment, she has made everybody think she did that. So she\u2019s bought some time. She placated the lunatic base. And it\u2019s working, by the way.<\/p>\n
I was pursuing some of my tech blogs. You can find some of the most insane liberalism on the tech blogs. They\u2019re ecstatic. They\u2019re ecstatic. They think this is it. This is the end of Trump. Pelosi is loved and adored. She finally pulled the trigger. Trump is under impeachment. He\u2019s not. It\u2019s still what Nadler\u2019s been doing all along, doing his inquiry.<\/p>\n
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Pelosi went and got these moderates that won in Trump districts, but after the Democrat caucus meeting with Pelosi yesterday afternoon, Elissa Slotkin reportedly said to Democrat colleagues, “If you are asking us to stay on message, give us a g-ddamn message to stay on. We came out [in favor of an impeachment inquiry] because this is something different, this meeting did not give me confidence that this will be something different.\u201d<\/p>\n