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<\/p>\nRUSH: Okay. Time to get started on the phones here on Open Line Friday. And folks, I\u2019m nowhere near finished in explaining and unraveling all this stuff going on here. I told you at the outset it can\u2019t happen in one hour, so stick with me. If you end up being confused about anything, go to my website, RushLimbaugh.com. A lot of confusion out there today — well, a lot of confusion for the past bunch of months, even years. Just go to RushLimbaugh.com if you have any questions about anything. If something puzzles you, if something looks out of whack, RushLimbaugh.com.<\/p>\n
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Here we go. Josh, Lansing, Michigan. Great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, Rush, thank you very much.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m from Michigan, and we\u2019re extremely angry, man. We got about a third of my friends are Democrat, and they voted for Trump. And, you know, we know a lot of crimes were committed. And we know people lied to Congress. Comey, Brennan, we know the DNC paid for the dossier. We know people were actually leaking to the media to create a news story so they could have circular reporting. I mean, how much longer do we have to wait? We know the crimes. At what point does the Republican Party become complicit by allowing them to continue? I\u2019m really upset over here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, now, that\u2019s two different things. You want know, \u201cHow much longer do we have to wait?\u201d \u2019cause everything he said is true. I would just add one minor correction. Nobody leaked to the media. The media were active participants. Nobody was leaking to them. The media\u2019s not a bunch of innocent bystanders that the deep state, “You know what, we\u2019re gonna get this in the media.” They call \u2019em. They don\u2019t leak anything to them. They call \u2019em. They bring \u2019em in on it.<\/p>\n
In fact, the media is probably the primary group orchestrating Democrat Party strategies. The reason why — your question, where is this investigation? Where are the results? We know this happened! Yeah. Knowing it happened and then convincing millions of Americans that it happened are two different things. And so investigations that are ongoing have to amass the evidence and then strategize a way of presenting it that makes it undoubtable and makes it appear to be unpartisan. And that\u2019s why they\u2019re gonna take time getting this done right. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Fred. Fred\u2019s in Cleveland. Great to have you on the EIB Network, Fred. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m doing well, Rush. Good day to you. My question for you, do you have full confidence in Bill Barr and his decision-making —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, I do.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Okay. I believe that the future of our republic is singularly in his hands. And as far as the rest of the guys go, McConnell, Lindsey Graham, I have zero confidence in the lot of \u2019em. And if Bill Barr doesn\u2019t come through, this could be the end.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it sadly appears that way to a lot of people. You know, the subject of where the Republicans are — okay. So we now know that we\u2019ve had a scam, we\u2019ve had two scams run on Brett Kavanaugh. And Lindsey Graham ripped them up one side the wall and down the other when they were in the middle of Kavanaugh version 1.0. Where are the hearings looking into the fraud that was the attempt to destroy Kavanaugh?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you, something else, folks, on the Ukraine business. I\u2019ve mentioned this three different times. I mentioned it yesterday. It\u2019s the kind of thing that will skip past you. In January of 2017 — and it may have been 2018 — there were four Democrat senators who got hold of the then president of Ukraine and demanded that Ukraine get busy on finding out the truth about Trump-Russia collusion.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has not done anything remotely like that. These four Democrat Senators were demanding that a foreign government meddle in the United States election! They wanted them after the fact to go in and find and produce evidence that Trump and Russia had colluded! And there\u2019s not a shred of interest in finding out what happened here.<\/p>\n
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Republicans are not calling those senators in and demanding that they explain what\u2019s up or censoring them or kicking them out of the Senate for meddling and for violating the law, while at the same time the Democrats are wallowing on and on and on about impeachment of Trump for making a phone call to the current president of Ukraine! Four Democrat senators. And the Democrats have a history of this!<\/p>\n
Ted Kennedy meddled with the Soviet government during the Reagan administration in the 1980s. The point is, there is plenty for Republicans to investigate Democrats, to do the same thing to them that they are doing to Trump. And it\u2019s about time it happened. Everybody\u2019s sick and tired of being on defense every day. That\u2019s what really bothers everybody here is being on defense!<\/p>\n
Remember how it changed when Barr, in one of his appearances before a Senate committee said (paraphrasing), \u201cYeah, there\u2019s spying, I\u2019m sure there was spying on the Trump campaign. We\u2019re gonna get to the bottom of it.\u201d Remember how everything seemed to change with that one sentence, everybody on our side felt finally we\u2019re on offense.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re on defense here. They\u2019re attacking Trump 13,000 times a week! And there is no response to it, other than everybody\u2019s circling the wagons and trying to prove them wrong. You can\u2019t prove \u2019em wrong because they\u2019re lying about it in the first place! The nature of the evidence of what they are alleging is irrelevant.<\/p>\n
Their purpose here is to dispirit American Trump voters. Their purpose is to dispirit anybody who wants to clean up Washington. Their purpose here is to depress you and dispirit you and get you to leave politics, to make you stop caring about it so that you don\u2019t present an obstacle to them by virtue of your power as a voter and a donor.<\/p>\n
So this stuff seems like it goes one way, all of it launched at Trump countless times a day and never is there any return fire. All there is is a bunch of people like me in the media trying to stop \u2019em. I can\u2019t convene a hearing. I can\u2019t censure anybody in the Senate. I can\u2019t force them to come up here and testify, tell me the truth about their phone calls and contacts with the president of Ukraine as they attempted to coerce that guy into getting dirt on Trump and Russia in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
Republicans in the Senate have to do that. Trump can\u2019t even do that. He has got no control over the Senate. That\u2019s the legislative branch. He doesn\u2019t control it. So I feel your pain, and I now feel mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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