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<\/p>\nRUSH: There\u2019s something interesting about this impeachment inquiry, ladies and gentlemen, because they are doing it in the Intelligence Committee. One of the things Trump said, by the way, is that Adam Schiff should have should be charged with treason. Now, you think, “Well, wuh, wuh?”<\/p>\n
Well, Schiff is out there as the chairman of a committee, the Intelligence Committee, openly lying about the president\u2019s phone call with the president of Ukraine — and he lied about it again today in his joint press conference with Pelosi. He literally said that the president told the Ukrainian president to “create dirt,” to “make it up, as much as you can.” When the Republicans finally called him on it, Schiff said, “Well, I was just engaging in parody. I\u2019m sorry it wasn\u2019t seen.”<\/p>\n
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Well, look, you have the sense of humor of a snail. Nobody thinks anything about you is funny, Pencil Neck. It wasn\u2019t parody, anyway — and, if you have to tell somebody that you\u2019ve just done parody, it was very bad parody. It was not parody. It was an attempt to purposely misstate and mischaracterize the words and the actions of the president of the United States. They\u2019re trying to create the illusion that Trump is a mob boss and he was ordering somebody, “Make up dirt or else we\u2019re not gonna give you the money — or worse.”<\/p>\n
None of what they are saying happened in that phone call did, and we\u2019ve even got Never Trumpers now all over Fox News, “Well, this phone call is very hard to defend. I wouldn\u2019t want to have to defend this phone call. If I were the Republicans, I wouldn\u2019t want…” There\u2019s nothing hard to defend about the phone call! You just don\u2019t want to defend it! You know, Fox really ought to change the name of the network from the Fox News Channel to the Fox Never Trumper Network, because that\u2019s who\u2019s getting the highlights, and they\u2019re bringing in Democrats like Donna Brazile.<\/p>\n
What do you mean, “The phone call\u2019s hard to defend”? The phone call\u2019s not hard to defend, and Trump isn\u2019t hard to defend! But if Trump is hard to defend, what about conservatism, you Never Trumpers? Can you defend that? Do you not understand that conservatism\u2019s under assault? You may not be because you\u2019re renouncing conservatism to sidle up with these guys that you don\u2019t want to be criticized by. So you\u2019d rather be friends with these nincompoops on the left than have to defend your own side and defend your own beliefs!<\/p>\n
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These Never Trumpers can\u2019t even defend their own beliefs because Trump happens to hold them. So they can\u2019t defend basic conservatism because Trump is implementing it, and they so despise Trump for whatever inane reasons that they can\u2019t even defend what they always have believed! Can\u2019t defend the phone call? The only way you can\u2019t defend the phone call is if you happen to believe the way Adam Schiff characterized it. There is nothing against the law in asking for help in pursuit of corruption!<\/p>\n
There is a joint treaty between the United States and Ukraine signed by Bill Clinton back in 1999. You could say, if you wanted to go this route, that Trump was simply enforcing and behaving according to the law. We have a mutual treaty to investigate corruption with Ukraine, a joint treaty between the United States and Ukraine. But everybody knows what Trump was doing on that phone call. This is another thing. Trump was asking the president of Ukraine for help in the ongoing investigation into what they tried to do to Trump in 2016!<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what Trump is seeking. Let me get something in the Stack here. There\u2019s a story from way back in 2017 that I have been holding on to. I had it yesterday and I\u2019ve moved it. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s back to the back of the Stack. Just bear with me a minute here, folks, as I dig this thing… Yes! Yes. It is a story from Politico, and it ran on January 11, 2017. Do you know the significance of that date? Off the top of your head, Mr. Snerdley, what\u2019s significant about January 11, 2017?<\/p>\n
(interruption) It\u2019s 10 day before Trump\u2019s inaugurated, okay? Kenneth Vogel and David Stern are the Democrats in the media that wrote the story. Headline: “Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire — Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost [Hillary] Clinton.” Now, I have been holding this story for just this day. When the Never Trumpers come out and say, “We can\u2019t defend the phone call! I wouldn\u2019t want to have to defend the phone call. It is clear as a bell what Trump was asking the president of Ukraine to do.<\/p>\n
Let me read this headline again: “Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire — Kiev officials…” For those of you in Rio Linda, Kiev is the capital — and it\u2019s also the name of a very good dish of chicken. “Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton. Donald Trump wasn\u2019t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.” What a lying, stinking open!<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s campaign was not aided by Russia! But remember, this is January 2017. We\u2019re in the heat of Trump-Russia collusion here. God, this stuff makes me mad, and I see a bunch of people that just don\u2019t even have the courage to defend what they\u2019ve always believed in their whole lives. “Donald Trump wasn\u2019t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country. Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office.<\/p>\n
“They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption,” that\u2019d be Manafort, “and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton\u2019s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.” Whatever happened to this story? Let me sum it up for you. All during the campaign, Ukraine is working to elect Hillary Clinton while we\u2019re being told the Russians are trying to help Trump!<\/p>\n
The Russians weren\u2019t trying to help Trump. The Russians try to sabotage whatever goes on in this country no matter who\u2019s running for what office! But Ukraine was working with Hillary as Russia was working with Hillary to undermine Trump! Trump blew it all up by winning! “A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.”<\/p>\n
I remember us talking about this back then. Nobody else did. Politico runs this story, and it runs and appears in a vacuum. Nobody touched it — and this research that Ukraine was helping Hillary dig up? Some of it ends up in the Steele dossier! So Ukraine and Russia are working with Clinton to undermine Trump, all the while we\u2019re being told that Trump is being aided by Russia.<\/p>\n
This headline is unmistakable: “Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire — Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends…” Now, the president of Kiev at the time that this all happened in 2017 is gone. They\u2019ve had an election. There\u2019s a new Ukraine president. Trump was calling to congratulate him on his victory! As part of the congratulations… We\u2019ve read the transcript of the call! I\u2019ve shared it with you!<\/p>\n
After thanking the guy, after congratulating the new president, \u201cHey, I got a favor for you,\u201d and that\u2019s when he mentioned CrowdStrike<\/a>, and that\u2019s when all of this blew up because CrowdStrike and Fusion GPS are two of the entities that hold the keys to this entire sordid affair.<\/p>\n CrowdStrike and Fusion GPS are where we are going to find the involvement of the FBI, or lack of. It\u2019s where we\u2019re gonna find how all of this actually manifested, where the tentacles originate and then how deeply interwoven they ended up being. Tentacles aimed at sabotaging Trump.<\/p>\n So Trump\u2019s got the president of Ukraine on the phone congratulating him, hey, would you help us? We\u2019re trying to track down what happened here. I got Joe Biden and his son, you could look into that, but when he mentioned CrowdStrike he\u2019s asking the Ukrainian president to help in the investigation that Barr has begun, Barr and Huber, to uncover exactly how this whole thing began investigating Trump.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not hard to understand. This is why the Democrats want to mischaracterize it, why they want to steer people in a misdirection move away from it, and why they\u2019re lying through their teeth about Trump telling the guy to make up dirt! He didn\u2019t ask anybody to make up dirt! There are 20 people monitoring this phone call! It\u2019s absurd to even address this as something possibly serious.<\/p>\n But the Never Trumpers, \u201cOh, that phone call\u2019s hard to defend.\u201d It\u2019s not hard to defend! All you have to do is put it in a little context, and the call makes perfect sense. It\u2019s what anybody who\u2019s being railroaded would try to do. These people think Trump\u2019s being railroaded. He\u2019s just supposed to stand aside and let the process of being railroaded take place. And if he ends up being railroaded, he\u2019s supposed to leave quietly.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the way the Democrats play the game. You get targeted, they\u2019re gonna railroad you, they\u2019re gonna throw you under the bus, you\u2019re supposed to stop and stand aside and let them do it, and then after they succeed, you\u2019re supposed to leave quietly and apologize for causing them all the trouble. And that\u2019s what Trump doesn\u2019t do. He doesn\u2019t stand aside, he doesn\u2019t let their process play out with any attempt to stop it.<\/p>\n He pushes back. He doubles and triples down on \u2019em. And they go berserk. These are the people trying to hide their corruption. If there\u2019s a cover-up going on and a whistleblower around, Trump\u2019s the whistleblower. They\u2019re doing the cover-up, Schiff, Pelosi, Clapper, Brennan, Comey, McCabe, all of those people, Fusion GPS, CrowdStrike, that\u2019s the cover-up. Hillary Clinton, these people are desperate for you never to learn what they did. That\u2019s why Trump is a never-ending target, why he\u2019s gonna always be a target because focusing on him ostensibly, supposedly prevents the focus on them.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s Carlsbad, California. Beautiful place, by the way. David, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah, Rush, hi. I\u2019m honored to talk to you, pal.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n CALLER: Hey, yes. I was… You said something earlier. You said, “If they were to take out Trump, where would we go?” I kind of wonder where an aspiring politician or businessman who has all these presidential aspirations and hopes and dreams, where is he or her? I mean, Trump has to pass the baton on, and they\u2019re not gonna take him on in this. So if I had these dreams of being president, I would be out there championing Trump\u2019s cause each and every day, because there\u2019s 60 million people out there who are gonna clamor and wait and hope for someone like a Trump after Trump. If that doesn\u2019t happen, you know, the whole thing just dies out like it did after the Reagan Revolution (crosstalk)…<\/p>\n RUSH: So your point is you\u2019re not seeing anybody. You\u2019re not seeing that person. You wonder where that person is.<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay, so let\u2019s cut to the chase. Why is that person not surfacing, then, in your mind?<\/p>\n CALLER: They\u2019re all dirty. The existing ones are all part of the deep state and they\u2019re all dirty. So we\u2019re waiting for someone else to rise up like a Trump did, and hopefully that will happen (crosstalk)…<\/p>\n RUSH: No. Wait, wait. I\u2019m listening to your theory. If your theory is right, these people should already have surfaced.<\/p>\n CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n RUSH: There should be the next wave of people who want to continue what Trump\u2019s doing, making themselves known by virtue of massive public obvious support for Trump. It\u2019s a good question. It\u2019s a good question. Why isn\u2019t it happening? There have to be people. There have to be! There have to be people who now that Trump has shown the way, want to do it. A lot of people want to be president. Look, we know one of the obvious answers.<\/p>\n (chuckling) This is scaring so many people out of politics, what the Democrats are doing to Trump. I mean, you probably are right that there are any number of people who would love to pick up the mantle, who would love to take the lead, to now follow the path that Trump has blazed here. But how many of them are saying, “You know what? I do not want to have to put up with what he\u2019s putting up with,” and until such time…<\/p>\n Until such time as it can be demonstrated that these people can be beaten — meaning the left, the media, and all that — you\u2019re gonna have, I think, a lot of reluctance on the part of people. This is a really good question, folks. It\u2019s almost along the same lines of, “Where are the Republicans who don\u2019t even want to be president just supporting their party? Where are the Republicans that are launching back at the Democrats for this? Where are they?” I don\u2019t care where you find them — House, Senate, think tank, Big Business, wherever — where are they?<\/p>\n Where are they? They didn\u2019t show up when Biden was engaging in all this sneaky behavior with his son, and they knew it was going on. But the real question is, “Where are they?” Okay. Even if they don\u2019t want to defend Trump, do they want to defend what they believe in? Or are they afraid to because they think there\u2019s no way to separate them? “Look (sputtering), if I look like I\u2019m supporting Trump, I\u2019m gonna get killed.” The Never Trumpers obviously just… In terms of having people on your team who are gonna fight for what you believe, they are showing that we can\u2019t count on them.<\/p>\n They have been blown. They have been blown to smithereens and sky-high now in terms of having any leadership characteristics about them at all. But still it\u2019s a good question. You would think that America right now would be filled with people who want to do what Trump did, following in his footsteps. Now, I don\u2019t mean exact copies like businessmen who\u2019ve never been in politics. I\u2019m talking about people who like you and I believe a thousand percent in this agenda, and now that Trump has blazed the trail, showing that you can do this from outside the traditional career of politics.<\/p>\n Where is this group of people that want to get in on the good times action here? And the answer is multifaceted, and I think dominated by no desire to go through a daily anal exam like Trump is. So we\u2019ll see. At some point, somebody\u2019s gonna surface. You have to know he\u2019s right, the caller\u2019s right. There have to be all kinds of people out there, because life is filled with copycats. It\u2019s filled with them. It\u2019s filled with everybody who thinks they can do it better. No matter who does something great, in whatever field, there\u2019s always somebody.<\/p>\n In a country of 300-plus million, there\u2019s always somebody who thinks they can do it better. Don\u2019t care what it is. There\u2019s always somebody who doesn\u2019t just sit there in awe of what\u2019s being done. They sit there and say, “This isn\u2019t anything. I could do it even better.” Where are those people? No, this is something, actually, I want to explore further.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Just saw a little tweet here from Paul Sperry.<\/a> Apparently, the Drive-By Media is reporting that they\u2019re very “offended by Trump\u2019s ‘crude & unpresidential\u2019 remarks about Pelosi wasting time on ‘bull[crap]\u2019 & Schiff not being able to carry Pompeo\u2019s ‘jockstrap.'” They think that\u2019s very “unpresidential” lingo, and they really think Trump should be ashamed, and they hate Trump, and they despise Trump. Of course, “when [Bill] Clinton was using a cigar as [an impregnation method with an] intern,” they didn\u2019t give a whit, did they?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-092519-Crowdstrike-Logo.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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CALLER: Exactly. I mean, Pompeo looks like he has the guts, but he can\u2019t say anything \u2019cause he\u2019s a cabinet member. But you have, like, a Ted Cruz who admitted he wants to run again, right? He wants to run, be president. Well, the easiest way for Ted Cruz to be president in 2024 perhaps, would be to go out there and be there every day. Be Trump\u2019s guy, \u2019cause Trump doesn\u2019t forget, because Trump is loyal to a fault, and if you\u2019re out there championing Trump\u2019s cause and making favor, currying favor with the 50 million voters, the voters aren\u2019t gonna forget either. The voters are gonna want to find someone like a Trump to vote for. So you could be out there, you could be a Rubio, and all of a sudden you\u2019re out there and you\u2019re Trump\u2019s best friend and you\u2019re Trump\u2019s biggest supporter and you\u2019re garnering all this (crosstalk)…<\/p>\n
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<\/a>In fact, they told us that was none of our business. (interruption) Why? Do you object to that language? I thought it was… (interruption) I thought that was… (interruption) Well, it was classily stated by me. (interruption) How else am I gonna say it? When I say, “Clinton was using a cigar with an intern,” I mean, who knows what people think? You\u2019ve got to go as close as you can — in as classy a way as you can — to describe what happened. The point is, when he was using the cigar on the intern, they didn\u2019t care about that. “It\u2019s none of our business! It didn\u2019t get in the way of him doing his job.”<\/p>\n