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<\/p>\nRUSH: I really hope, ladies and gentlemen, that you have a significant amount of appreciation for Donald Trump and the way he is dealing with this latest scam of an effort to get rid of him, this phony continuation of an original hoax impeachment move by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.<\/p>\n
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For practically the entirety of this program, it has never failed — if we wanted to, we could get a call every day from somebody complaining about the Republicans never pushing back or why don\u2019t the Republicans do this and why don\u2019t the Republicans do that. And for every one of those kinds of calls and complaints — and I hear them outside of the program, too — we now have a president, a Republican president who\u2019s doing it daily and multiple times a day.<\/p>\n
And even at that, we had a caller yesterday<\/a>, “I think Trump needs to do more. I think he needs to call a national speech.” And I know what this is all about. There are a lot of people supporting Trump and it\u2019s costing them a lot of things. It\u2019s costing them family relationships, friendships, any number of things. It\u2019s causing strife at work. And I think they want some acknowledgment from Trump that he\u2019s aware of what they\u2019re going through.<\/p>\n And since most everybody — it\u2019s human nature — most everybody thinks about themselves first. It\u2019s just the way it is. They don\u2019t stop to think about the thing that Trump is going through himself and his family and so forth, at least not at first. And it\u2019s the nature of leadership. People always look to the leader to take care of \u2019em, to do things, to represent them, to fight back for them. And I think this latest move that the Trump White House has made ought to just satisfy everybody.<\/p>\n They have just pretty much told Pelosi to go pound sand, that they are shutting down everything, they\u2019re not gonna cooperate an iota. And I can\u2019t tell you how happy this makes me.<\/p>\n Remember, ladies and gentlemen, it was sometime last week I told you that AP had run a story how the White House had learned — and the AP was not happy about this, the Associated Press was not happy about this. And they were trying to shame the White House with this story. But it didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n The AP made the point that when the Mueller investigation first began, the lawyers Trump had hired were Washington lawyers. And they encouraged him to cooperate because Trump had not done anything. And since he hadn\u2019t done anything they decided to cooperate, which was a grave tactical error because it validated the investigation.<\/p>\n If the target is gonna cooperate — remember Rudy, remember Rudy\u2019s first statement when he was hired on. “I\u2019m gonna talk to Bob, we\u2019ll get this taken care of in two, three weeks. This is all bogus. Everybody knows it. Bob just needs to know.” So all these guys thought they could tell Mueller how he had been misled into taking the gig and that once they told Bob what was really going on that Bob would shut this down and agree that there was nothing to it.<\/p>\n Well, there was never an investigation. The whole thing was not an investigation. There was never anything to investigate. It was all manufactured and made up. How many times you heard me say there was never a shred of evidence. So it wasn\u2019t long that Trump\u2019s instincts took over and he said to hell with this cooperation. What\u2019s this getting us? All this is doing is making us look like we did it. Cooperation not gonna help here.<\/p>\n So Trump made some changes with his legal team and he got some brawlers in there and got people who would follow Trump\u2019s instincts. They have learned from that mistake. They are not cooperating with Pelosi an iota. They are not going to legitimize this in any way. Trump fires tweets at these people two and three times a day. I have people sending me the tweets.<\/p>\n And they send me these tweets that Trump sends out that they see, great appreciation Trump is doing this. I wrote one of them back today. I said, “Do you think these tweets from Trump are intimidating Schiff? Do you think they\u2019re intimidating the media? Do you think they\u2019re intimidating Pelosi?”<\/p>\n “No, no, no. I don\u2019t think that,” she said, “but I think they are keeping Trump\u2019s base fired up.” And there may be something to that. But the idea of not legitimizing this — \u2019cause there isn\u2019t — folks, I don\u2019t know how to say it other than there isn\u2019t anything legitimate about this impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n Now we\u2019ve got, as I\u2019ve pointed out — I\u2019m glad to see so many others in media finally pick up — big segments on Fox yesterday about how Schiff has been given this job \u2019cause he\u2019s the intel committee, because that allows him to do it behind closed doors. Meaning, there\u2019s no transparency. Meaning, nobody can see what\u2019s going on. Meaning, he can shut Republicans out of the questioning process. Meaning, we have no idea what\u2019s going on behind closed doors. They can have an interview with any number of people, Schiff can come out and lie about what they said. That\u2019s not an impeachment inquiry. This is an inquisition.<\/p>\n Impeachment is transparent, it is public, and it is only undertaken in the most dire circumstances where the future and the fate of the country is actually at stake. And what\u2019s at stake here is the future and fate of the Democrat Party, which is not the future and fate of the country.<\/p>\n And so now everybody\u2019s picked up on why Pelosi handed this off to Schiff, so they could keep it behind closed doors because they can\u2019t allow anybody to know what\u2019s actually going on here because there isn\u2019t anything legitimate.<\/p>\n Well, let\u2019s go back to the New York Times here for a moment \u2019cause it\u2019s a teachable, a teachable moment. What has happened is this. Trump\u2019s team of lawyers has sent to Pelosi a letter that spells out why they will not cooperate with her impeachment inquiry. Well, this has offended the guardians of the press.<\/p>\n This has offended the editors of the Democrats in the media at the New York Times. So the New York Times and other Democrats in the media are now calling this a “declaration of war” on impeachment! As if the Democrats in the House were just minding their business, twiddling their thumbs, not doing much to anybody or anything, and then out of the blue — while they\u2019re having lunch in the House dining room — Trump declared war on them.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a total mischaracterization of what\u2019s going on. They\u2019re acting like the Democrats have no role in this and then Trump is some ogre coming in here deciding to blow up the House. They don\u2019t report that Trump is the target of yet another phony political operation that\u2019s designed to get him thrown out of office, and they don\u2019t have any just cause for this. So they\u2019re making it up, and they\u2019re recycling things. Now we\u2019re learning so much more about the whistleblowers.<\/p>\n We\u2019re also learning so much more about Barr\u2019s investigation with his investigator John Durham, the famous lawyer from Connecticut. That\u2019s now gone global. It\u2019s a massive investigation that Barr has undertaken, and everybody in the deep state is well aware, and so the race is on. The Democrats want to beat whatever Barr produces. The Democrats want to get something going on with this. There is an ongoing debate. I saw it played out on TV; I\u2019ve seen it in things I\u2019ve read.<\/p>\n There\u2019s still an ongoing debate about whether or not Pelosi will actually ever call an official impeachment vote. The two schools of thought are: “Yeah, she will, but it\u2019s still going to be mostly a distraction exercise, that it isn\u2019t going to be legit because they\u2019re not going to see this all the way through the Senate. All they want to do is pick off some Republicans in the Senate and in the House and be able to claim it\u2019s bipartisan<\/a>.”<\/p>\n It\u2019s another thing I pointed out yesterday that others in the media are now picking up on. They just want to get some Republicans on board so they can claim it\u2019s bipartisan. And then there are others, like I saw Brad… What\u2019s his name? Blakeman? Is that his name, Mr. Snerdley? He\u2019s a former Republican Bush official. I think he came out of the womb a GOP official. I mean, that\u2019s… Anyway, he was on Fox. He says, “There\u2019s not gonna be a vote. There isn\u2019t gonna be a vote. She\u2019s never gonna call a vote.”<\/p>\n So there are these two schools of thought. Now, back to the New York Times here for a minute because this is classic. Trump sends a letter. The legal team sends a letter to Pelosi saying they\u2019re not gonna cooperate with this. The New York Times says, Trump “declares war on impeachment inquiry” as those the Democrats are not bothering anybody. They\u2019re just sitting around chewing their cud, thinking about trying to win the House and Senate back — and all of a sudden, they get this massive nuclear attack in the form of a letter from Trump!<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how the opening paragraph of this absolutely pathetic story begins. “The White House declared war on the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, announcing that it would not cooperate with what it called an illegitimate effort ‘to overturn the results of the 2016 election\u2019…” You had better be grateful Donald Trump is the president and not somebody else that would be trying to get this thrown out by cooperating with it. Donald Trump is pushing back and hitting them right between the eyes when accusing them of exactly what they\u2019re doing: An ongoing, partisan “effort ‘to overturn results of the 2016 election.\u2019<\/p>\n “In a letter to House Democratic leaders, the White House said the inquiry had violated precedent and denied President Trump\u2019s due process rights in such an egregious way that neither he nor the executive branch would willingly provide testimony or documents, a daring move that sets the stage for a constitutional clash.” How is this a declaration of war? How is this even a daring move? The Trump legal team is merely pointing out that the House Democrats are violating precedent and due process and that they are the ones violating the Constitution!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-072919-Pushing-Back.jpg\")
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<\/a>So, the New York Times has a story: \u201cWhite House Declares War on Impeachment Inquiry.\u201d<\/a> Now, The Politico story on this thing is a different headline. Their headline is: \u201cTrump\u2019s All-Out Blockade Threatens Democrats\u2019 Impeachment Drive.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>They\u2019re trying to do this in private, trying to do it in secret with fake, phony whistleblowers. What this does (chuckles) is now throw this to the courts, and you know how fast things happen there. Have you ever been taken to court? “My God, you\u2019re charged one day, and then the next day you\u2019re in jail!” No, actually it can take years. Now, they\u2019ll try to speed this up, because that\u2019s what Pelosi is actually interested in here, in this race against time.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100319-Pelosi-Schiff.jpg\")
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