{"id":325603,"date":"2019-10-17T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=325603"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:49:08","slug":"why-didnt-we-know-elijah-cummings-was-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/10\/17\/why-didnt-we-know-elijah-cummings-was-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn\u2019t We Know Elijah Cummings Was Sick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The noted congressman from Maryland (the Baltimore area, the inner city and part of the suburbs) and chairman the appropriations committee, Elijah Cummings &#8212; a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucasians &#8212; passed away overnight. His family said that he passed away around 2 a.m. He was at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore. Now, is it just me, or were you surprised? Did you know that Congressman Cummings was sick? I didn\u2019t. Did you know he was extremely sick?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Elijah-Cummings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Elijah-Cummings.jpg 640w, https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Elijah-Cummings-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Here\u2019s a story: &#8220;Cummings\u2019 office said in a brief statement that he died &#8216;due to complications concerning longstanding health challenges.\u2019 Cummings had been in ill health the past few years, navigating the Capitol in a motorized cart and using a walker.&#8221; I had no idea about any of that. Now, a lot of people did. I mean, you can\u2019t tool around the Capitol on a motorized cart or a walker and not have everybody know.<\/p>\n<p>But they kept it under wraps, not surprisingly. But amidst all this talk that &#8220;Trump\u2019s unfit, Trump had a meltdown, Trump\u2019s sick, Trump needs to go,&#8221; does anybody besides me think that maybe somebody should have known about this? He\u2019s chairman the appropriations committee. Maybe not. Who knows? Just a member of Congress, not president. At any rate, RIP Elijah Cummings.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I have a story here from the U.K. Independent. Headline: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/elijah-cummings-trump-impeachment-death-subpoena-house-investigation-baltimore-a9160436.html\">Elijah Cummings &#8216;Signed Subpoenas from His Hospital Bed\u2019 for Trump Impeachment Before His Death <\/a>&#8212; Maryland Democrat also helped lead Democratic caucus conference call.&#8221; This man was so committed! He was so good, he was so committed that on his deathbed &#8212; seconds before he passed away &#8212; he was signing subpoenas for Trump\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The chairman of the House Oversight Committee was signing subpoenas from his hospital bed, one aide told the New York Times.&#8221; Good&#8230; Lord&#8230; What else? There\u2019s another&#8230; We were told some famous Democrat died and they were doing something at the very moment they passed away. It was sick. Something political. I can\u2019t remember. It\u2019ll come to me. So this is how they want Elijah Cummings to be remembered: He was so committed &#8212; he was so committed to getting rid of Trump &#8212; that he was signing subpoenas for impeachment at the very moment passed away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Does anybody besides me think that maybe somebody should have known about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":325608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcripts","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Didn\u2019t We Know Elijah Cummings Was Sick? 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