This is not Rasmussen. This is TheHill.com. It\u2019s a Drive-By Media poll. Donald Trump\u2019s approval number, they say, “ticked up.” It is up to 49%. That\u2019s the highest mark this year. It is “a two-point increase from a Sept. 11-12 poll, but a two-point decrease from its previous peak of 51% last August.” Forget that. Look at the trend and look at the timing. It had to kill them! It had to kill them to report this. The new poll shows the approval rating for Trump among Americans has grown in the midst of this impeachment hoax.<\/p>\n
Do you know why Pompeo was able to do that? Because they are not at the point where they can let subpoenas. They can\u2019t compel anybody with what they\u2019ve done. You officially embark on impeachment, you have the floor vote, you do everything to make it official; then you have subpoena power, then you can compel people to come up. They\u2019re just sending letters to people asking them to show up! What\u2019s happening… It\u2019s all an illusion, like I told you yesterday.<\/p>\n So Schiff and his committee send a letter to Pompeo, the secretary of state. The media then takes over and reports (dramatically), “The committee has summoned the secretary of state who finds himself deeply entwined in the spinning, out of control controversy,” blah, blah, blah. So the media takes as a fact that Schiff sent a letter requesting Pompeo to show up and testify. Pompeo threw the letter in the trash. Well, I\u2019m sure he kept it for posterity, but it has no force of law behind it.<\/p>\n There is no way that they can make Pompeo show up, and he told them to pound sand, effectively. But the media\u2019s in there reporting (dramatically), “The committee has summoned the secretary of state, and the secretary of state is stonewalling the impeachment inquiry.” Folks, it\u2019s nothing more than a campaign strategy. It\u2019s nothing more than an illusion. There is no impeachment. They\u2019re just calling their campaign strategy “impeachment,” and now that they\u2019ve hustled into this — and this whole whistleblower thing is on the verge of backfiring on them in a major way and so is the entire effort.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve even got Charlie Cook, who is the dean of pollsters and analysts and has The Cook Report in Washington… Whatever Charlie Cook says, all these inside-the-Beltway people stop, read it, and believe it. Charlie Cook is saying, “I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d be doing this if I were them,” meaning the Democrats. “I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d be doing this.” You know, another reason that it\u2019s not an impeachment? Look at how they\u2019re hurrying this thing on. Congress is on recess, and these guys are moving it along full speed.<\/p>\n It is pouring in. Brad Parscale, the campaign manager, continues to report the numbers and submit opinion pieces to go along with the numbers. All of the indications that this is causing people to abandon Trump? It\u2019s the exact opposite. I\u2019m talking about voters now. In the Beltway, it\u2019s a different story. You\u2019ve got the Never Trumpers on Fox and got the Never Trumpers outside Fox all claiming it\u2019s all imploding on the president. It isn\u2019t. They continue to misrepresent and lie what the president\u2019s doing in that phone call to Ukraine.<\/p>\n The president\u2019s actually pretty smart. He did another press conference today on the way to the Marine One helicopter. He\u2019s going down to The Villages here in Florida, which is, what, outside Orlando? And he\u2019s gonna make a speech down there, and he had one of those press gaggles. You know, where he stops. You hear the whine of the helicopter engine in the background. You can barely hear the screaming kids of Democrats in the media shouting their inane, childish questions, and Trump answers them.<\/p>\n I was just… You know, you\u2019re reading the media today, and they continue to miscast. Here\u2019s their talking point. This is why they are impeaching him, by the way. This is it. If you know how to watch \u2019em, as I do, if you know how to translate what they\u2019re saying, as I do, what they are saying — and this is all they have. This is why they have called what they\u2019re doing “impeachment.” They are claiming that on that phone call to the president of Ukraine that Trump asked Ukraine and the president to “dig up dirt” on his 2020 political opponent, which would be Joe Biden.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not how Trump characterizes what he\u2019s doing and that\u2019s not what Trump was doing. But they are taking this and they\u2019re running with it. They\u2019re way premature, they\u2019re way early, they can\u2019t stop themselves, they can\u2019t help themselves. It\u2019s gonna come back and bite them. It\u2019s in the process of doing that now, they are claiming that what Trump did was ask the president of Ukraine to dig up dirt. Remember Schiff even had to lie about it. He had to lie about it. The transcript of the phone call does not say anything of the sort.<\/p>\n But Schiff lied as committee chairman by saying that the president called the president of Ukraine and asked him to “make up” and “dig up dirt” on his opponent, “make up as much as you can, and don\u2019t get back to me until you have done that.” That\u2019s not what Trump did, and Trump perfectly characterized it here in his little press gaggle today and on previous occasions. What he is saying is that I, as president, have a duty to make sure that government officials are not corrupting or acting in a corrupt way in foreign governments.<\/p>\n The media and the Democrats have totally turned that, done a 180 on it, claiming that Trump\u2019s digging up dirt on his 2020 opponent. But that is it. That is why Kasich said to CNN, “You can\u2019t impeach a guy over a phone call.” That\u2019s it. Yes, I watched a Democrat activist on Fox today. That\u2019s the only thing they\u2019ve got. This woman kept returning to that. No matter what objection was raised, no matter how it was pointed out that that\u2019s not what Trump was doing, that\u2019s all she had. “You can\u2019t engage…”<\/p>\n In fact, it was a repeat of what Donna Brazile said yesterday on Fox. (paraphrased) “You can\u2019t use the presidency to advance your own personal political fortunes!” So they\u2019re saying that Trump was asking the president of Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden, and that\u2019s not at all what was happening. But that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got, and because that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got, now they\u2019ve got the whistleblower. They\u2019re trying to make it look like somebody overheard Trump saying this.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all as made up as the Russia collusion was, folks. It is as made up as that. It is as totally manufactured out of nothing as that is. There is no real impeachment. There is no impeachable offense or behavior by the president in this circumstance. The corruption was engaged in by Biden and his son. By the way, we may need an APB on Hunter Biden. Has anybody found the guy? Here\u2019s a good way of looking at this. I saw somebody make this point. Let\u2019s say that you have some money that you want to invest.<\/p>\n Would you call Goldman Sachs? Would you call the Blackstone Group (that\u2019s Steve Schwarzman and his buddies)? Would you call Merrill Lynch? Would you call Wells Fargo? Or would you call Hunter Biden? Hunter Biden is the last person anybody would call to manager their wealth portfolio. He doesn\u2019t know anything about it. He never has done it. He\u2019s put on the board of this company that does it. He\u2019s paid $50,000 a month. He got a big sweetheart cash bonus. This is how Biden took care of his kid.<\/p>\n This is what happens. Well, this is the United States government — the Obama administration\u2019s vice president — corrupting the flow of business in Ukraine, and Trump wants this guy to find out the truth. What Trump\u2019s actually doing — and I stress again. What Trump was actually doing was asking the president of Ukraine to be of assistance in the pursuit of the Barr investigation, the investigation into the investigation. There is a telltale sign…<\/p>\n If you are going wobbly, if you are getting weak-kneed, if you are beginning to doubt that the Barr investigation\u2019s real or that it\u2019s going to produce anything, let me give you a different way of looking at it. Barr has spent a lot of time in Italy. Barr is traveling all over Europe tracking down this investigation. Everywhere he goes, there is a Drive-By Media story featuring quotes from various people who say that Barr is “chasing a conspiracy theory.”<\/p>\n That\u2019s why there\u2019s such speed by the Democrats here to get this phony impeachment thing going. When they see polling data shows that Trump\u2019s ticking up two points and his fundraising? And that\u2019s just one poll. It\u2019s happening in Rasmussen as well. Oh, and there\u2019s a Monmouth poll out there. This is not insignificant. Monmouth is a poll that all these Drive-By people love and believe in. I didn\u2019t catch the numbers. I caught the numbers for a split second. I tried jot them down here. I think, 43-37, believe that Biden engaged in corruption in Ukraine with his son.<\/p>\n It\u2019s 43-37. Now, who\u2019s out there spreading that story? Well, of course Trump and his allies in so-called alternative media. Who\u2019s out there trying to nuke it? Everybody else. The Washington Post, the New York Times, the CNN. And yet in the Monmouth poll, it clearly says that a plurality, 43… I think it was 43. It might have been 47, but I think was 43-37 believe that Biden had engaged in corruption, U.S. officials were corrupt in foreign countries, Ukraine and so forth.<\/p>\n Anyway, let me take a brief break and come back. That\u2019s a brief set of the table. We\u2019ll now tear it down and go through this bit by bit. We\u2019re gonna bring back — we\u2019re gonna bring back from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites — the Adam Schiff getting punk\u2019d by a couple of comedians in Ukraine phone call during the Trump-Russia collusion. People can\u2019t hear this enough. We have led the way in American media in airing this.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-The-Hill-TEARAWAY-100319-UPDATE.jpg\")
<\/a>And it\u2019s not a real impeachment, folks, as we have been attempting to say. Well, no. I have not been trying to say it. I have been saying it. I\u2019ve been attempting to persuade people that this is not an impeachment. It\u2019s a campaign strategy for 2020. There is no impeachment underway. “What you mean, Rush? I\u2019m watching the news every day. It says ‘impeachment.'” It\u2019s not an impeachment. They told Pompeo that he\u2019s gotta come up and testify. What did Pompeo do? He told them to go pound sand.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100319-Schiff.jpg\")
Why are they hurrying through this? They want to get as much done to flavor public opinion before the whole thing becomes exposed for what it is. It isn\u2019t impeachment. In the midst of it, the polling data is showing that Trump is ticking up. You know, there\u2019s another poll that shows things like this, and that\u2019s fundraising. The president\u2019s fundraising is apparently through the roof. They apparently… They are dwarfing the amount of money that Obama had raised at this point. They\u2019re dwarfing the amount of money that they had raised in the 2016 race.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100119-Bidens-Golf.jpg\")
<\/a>Which is what Biden and his kid were doing! Biden set his kid up to earn $50,000 a month as a hedge fund-type financial analyst and adviser, after being made a member of the board of the company, Burisma, that does this. They simply cut Biden\u2019s the kid in after pressure from Joe Biden to do it. Remember Biden bragged about firing<\/a> a prosecutor who was looking into his kid? The bottom line is it is crucially important that the United States makes sure that no agents of its government are acting in corrupt ways or are corrupting the operations of a foreign government, and that\u2019s what Trump is asking the guy to investigate.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-tearaway-Red-State-100319.jpg\")
<\/a>One of the writers at RedState.com has done a little informal research into this<\/a>, and they found out that whenever the Democrats using “conspiracy theory” or “chasing a conspiracy theory,” It is a telltale sign they are scared to death and are attempting to discredit whatever is going on by casting it as a bunch of lunatics that are carrying out a conspiracy or a conspiracy theory. I think that there\u2019s a considerable amount of panic.<\/p>\n
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