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<\/p>\nRUSH: One of the allegations being made against Trump vis-a-vis the phone call he made with the president of Ukraine was that there was a quid pro quo, that Trump was promising to withhold money the United States had pledged, was gonna withhold the money if the new president of Ukraine didn\u2019t dig up the dirt on Biden.<\/p>\n
Well, I hate to tell them, but the quid pro quo and cover-up allegations against Trump are falling apart. I don\u2019t want you to doubt me. It\u2019s gonna be very hard to accept what I\u2019m telling you here, folks, because you\u2019re gonna leave here and you\u2019re gonna be onslaughted by a never-ending media operation, but I\u2019m telling you their plans, this grandiose impeachment announcement, has fallen apart.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not talking about it in Ohio. It did not create the stoppage in America, it was not treated as some serious, really, really heavy thing that stopped Americans in their tracks and made them think soberly about things in America today. It was perceived as just the next Democrat series of allegations. So it\u2019s not unfolding the way they intended. They will never betray this. They\u2019re not gonna act like it\u2019s not working, so just take my word for it.<\/p>\n
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Here are the details. \u201cTwo new developments will probably have some Democrats wishing they had waited for all the information to come out before jumping the gun on impeachment.\u201d No, because impeachment\u2019s not about the substance of anything, but here it is. \u201cThe first comes from an unnamed Ukrainian official who said that Kiev \u2013” that\u2019s the capital of Ukraine, for those of you in Rio Linda, \u201cKiev was not aware that the United States had suspended security funds before Trump\u2019s call on July 25th.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump could not have threatened to withhold the money. It had already been withheld. Trump\u2019s phone call had nothing to do with withholding money. There could be have been a quid pro quo, folks! And the Ukrainian president did not know that the funds had been put on hold until a month after Trump\u2019s call.<\/p>\n
To repeat, the first allegation that\u2019s falling apart, unnamed Ukrainian official who said that Kiev was not aware the U.S. had suspended security funds before Trump\u2019s July 25th call. Trump could not have suspended money. He couldn\u2019t have threatened to because it had already been suspended a month before he made the call.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, didn\u2019t know that the funds had been put on hold until a month after he had talked to Trump. The money was an irrelevant subject. It was a nonfactor. There could have been no quid pro quo. Trump could not have promised to withhold it unless he got what he wanted because it already had been withheld. It had already been put on hold.<\/p>\n
The whistleblower complaint alleged that officials in Kiev knew military aid was at stake, but the whistleblower admitted not knowing how or when — the whistleblower doesn\u2019t know jack. The whistleblower didn\u2019t hear the phone call. The whistleblower got thirdhand — the whistleblower is a phony. Back in a moment.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Did you know this? Did you know that there is a treaty between the United States and Ukraine regarding cooperation for prosecuting crimes? Now, some people think this is a bit too in the weeds, meaning it\u2019s a little bit complicated and you gotta dig deep into it before you get to the nub of it, but I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt appears President Trump was following the law to the letter when it comes to unearthing the long-standing corruption that has swirled in Ukraine and allegedly involves powerful Democrats like Joe Biden,\u201d and his son! I want to read to you a treaty. Not very long. I\u2019m gonna read to you a treaty that was signed between the United States and Ukraine regarding cooperation for prosecuting crimes from 1999.<\/p>\n
Here is the treaty. “To the Senate of the United States, with a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the treaty between the United States of America and Ukraine on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters with annex, signed at Kiev on July 22nd, 1998. I transmit alias for the information of the Senate an exchange of notes, which was signed on September 30th, 1999, which provides for its provisional application as well as the report of the Department of State with respect to the treaty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe treaty is one of a series of modern mutual legal assistance treaties being negotiated by the U.S. in order to counter criminal activities more effectively. The treaty should be an effective tool to assist in the prosecution of a wide variety of crimes, including drug trafficking offenses. The treaty is self-executing. It provides for a broad range of cooperation in criminal matters, mutual assistance available under the treaty includes taking of testimony or statements of persons, providing documents, records, and articles of evidence, serving documents, locating or identifying persons, transferring persons in custody for testimony or other purposes, executing requests for searches and seizures and assisting in proceedings related to restraint, confiscation, forfeiture of assets, restitution, collection of fines. I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the treaty and give its advice and consent to ratification.\u201d Signed, William J. Clinton, 1999.<\/p>\n
Meaning that when Trump asked the president of Ukraine to help investigate the crimes that may have been committed by Joe Biden and his son Hunter, he was simply abiding by a treaty that we have with Ukraine, promising such mutual cooperation. Trump was not in violation of law. In fact, Trump was behaving according to the letter of the law.<\/p>\n
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Remember how early this week I said that once I saw the transcript of the call where Trump had mentioned CrowdStrike to the Ukrainian president, I said, \u201cHe\u2019s asking the president of Ukraine to help them get to the bottom of the investigation into him.\u201d Trump is asking for assistance, looking into CrowdStrike, what involvement they have in Ukraine because the founder of CrowdStrike hates Putin, literally hates Putin.<\/p>\n
It would be so classic for this guy at CrowdStrike to blame Putin and the Russians for hacking the Democrat server simply because he hates the guy. Well, Hogan Gidley, who, by the way, you may have seen Hogan Gidley now and then on Fox. He is one of the ranking people in the communications shop at the White House. The guy is really good. And he\u2019s a great guy. I\u2019ve met him a couple of times on trips to the White House. He\u2019s really a stand-up guy. He\u2019s brilliant as well.<\/p>\n
Anyway, he came out and admitted that what this is, is Trump asking Ukraine to help expose the corruption that happened in 2016 by mentioning CrowdStrike. Hogan Gidley is not aware of what I have said, I\u2019m certain, confirmed it. He said, ” Of course the president talked about looking into corruption in the 2016 election, and I\u2019m old enough to remember when Democrats used to want to find out what happened in the 2016 election,\u201d said Hogan Gidley.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a great line. “I\u2019m old enough to remember when they wanted to find out what happened in 2016.” They know what happened. Their efforts to rig the election failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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