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<\/p>\nRUSH: I\u2019m getting some emails. “Rush, you don\u2019t seem to be taking impeachment seriously enough. I think you\u2019re wrong. I think the House is gonna impeach Trump. They\u2019re gonna do it. I think there\u2019s gonna be a trial. I\u2019m really worried. Why aren\u2019t you?” I\u2019m getting a lot of emails that have that as a basic theme. I\u2019ll go through it again, but let me give you a very simple reason why I think they aren\u2019t going to actually have an official vote and transfer all this to a trial in the Senate.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s why they\u2019re not gonna do it. They\u2019re not gonna turn this over to the Senate — and not even because the Senate would acquit. They\u2019re not gonna give the politics of this away. They want to be able to talk about impeachment, and Pelosi and Schiff and the Democrats want to be seen as the people running it, in charge of it — the politics of it.<\/p>\n
The minute they have a vote and hand this over to the Senate, the Senate is in control of impeachment, not the House. The Senate is run by Republicans. They\u2019re not gonna do that. It\u2019s real simple. They are not going to let go of their control of all the narratives attached to impeachment, and that would happen if they go to the Senate with it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, I\u2019m gonna expand on this as I did yesterday. Basically I\u2019m just gonna remind you what I said yesterday. But do you foresee Pelosi and Schiff giving up control of the impeachment process, turning it over to the Republicans, to the Senate? Forget that the Senate is Republicans. Forget that. Do you see them giving up day-to-day control over the narrative of impeachment? I don\u2019t, and that\u2019s the main reason I think that they\u2019re not gonna go through with this because I don\u2019t…<\/p>\n
Look, they\u2019re not idiots. I don\u2019t care what, you know, the ebb of flow of things happen. If there actually ever was a trial in the Senate, they are not going to get 20 Republicans to vote to convict. They might get Romney and two or three others, but they\u2019re not gonna get 20. That means Trump\u2019s acquitted. That\u2019s the worst thing that could happen. That\u2019s not their gambit. Their gambit is the Richard Nixon gambit. They forced Nixon out without ever having to impeach him. They did it in the media.<\/p>\n
They were able to scare a bunch of Republicans in the Senate and shame a bunch of Republicans in the Senate into renouncing support for Nixon and then sending an emissary — it was Howard Baker — up to the White House to tell Nixon, “You\u2019d better quit because you\u2019ve lost all support here on Capitol Hill. If they vote to impeach you, you\u2019re done. If you want to be the first president removed from office by impeachment, then hang tough.”<\/p>\n
Nixon resigned. That\u2019s what they want to put out. They want this to go on all next year. They want to be able to have this thing go on and on and have it be a daily thing. And the minute they have a vote and the minute they go to trial, they turn control of it over to Mitch McConnell, who they hate — and I just don\u2019t see them doing that because, folks, this is purely politics. This is raw politics. This isn\u2019t about crimes.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not about criminal behavior, high criminal behavior, misdemeanor criminal behavior. It isn\u2019t about any of that. It\u2019s about trying to overcome and reverse the 2016 election. That\u2019s all this has ever been; it\u2019s what it remains today. It\u2019s not because they think Trump is an embarrassment that\u2019s endangering the country and he\u2019s just destroying it. It\u2019s not about that at all. It\u2019s about the fact that they couldn\u2019t beat him. It\u2019s about the fact that he won. It\u2019s about the fact that they haven\u2019t been able to get rid of him yet.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s all it is, and they need the media to be their echo chamber or vice-versa. The minute the focus of impeachment goes to the Senate, Pelosi and Schiff are just sideline cheerleaders. They are not going to give that up. Now, there are exceptions to everything. And if they found that Trump did in fact shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue last night and it was covered up — if they found something like that, outrageous — then, of course, bam! They would go full speed. But they don\u2019t have anything impeachable.<\/p>\n
See, that\u2019s another thing that, when you get right down to it, they don\u2019t have anything impeachable. All they have is what they used during Nixon. And that is a daily opportunity to try to turn Republican support in the Senate away from Trump with public shaming; never-ending, relentless media narratives that cause Republicans to cave. That\u2019s the model that they are following.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: In fact, folks, I\u2019ll tell you something else. I may be going out on a limb here, but I\u2019m gonna say it anyway. If I have to walk it back, I\u2019ll walk it back. I actually think politically the Democrats have shoved the actual impeachment of Trump aside. When Pelosi said they weren\u2019t gonna do a vote, that\u2019s what that meant to me. Look, when Pelosi cancels the vote and says there\u2019s not gonna be a vote, what does that mean? She doesn\u2019t want this to end! If they have a vote — and let\u2019s assume that they\u2019ve got enough votes to impeach. Okay, then that eventually — and the Turtle, Mitch McConnell, is out there saying if they do this, he wants this done by Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not gonna turn control of this over to the Senate, folks. They\u2019re just not gonna let go of it. I cannot see it. That\u2019s not the gambit. The game plan here has always been to force Trump to resign. I mean, they weren\u2019t gonna impeach during the Mueller years. This has all been about trying to get Trump to resign. The next election\u2019s not \u2019til 2020. Let\u2019s put this in perspective. Trump wins on election night 2016. They immediately begin this coup! They start the silent coup. Trump-Russia collusion, eventually they get Mueller.<\/p>\n
What are they gonna do? They can\u2019t redo the election. There will not be a do-over. So they\u2019re faced with Trump for four years unless what? They\u2019ve always wanted to force a resignation. They weren\u2019t in any position to do a formal impeachment during the Mueller two years or any time prior to it. And impeachment is, you know, short of illness or death, the only way to remove somebody from the presidency — and it was not even an option.<\/p>\n
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So the gambit has always been to create massive public opinion anti-Trump. It\u2019s always been to try to get Trump voters to abandon him. It\u2019s always been trying to give Republicans ammo, elected Republicans ammo to abandon Trump. That has been the objective of all of this. That\u2019s why I have been blowing a gasket every day during these two years when I see certain Republicans falling for it. It\u2019s been the trick, it\u2019s been the objective from the get-go.<\/p>\n
Even if Republicans hate Trump, why give the Democrats any semblance of a victory here? The election happened. Republican voters chose Trump. You understand the Democrats wanting to sell out voters, but Republicans? Why in the world would they want to sell out their own voters? There are gonna be many elections long after Trump has served his term, so it\u2019s been extremely frustrating. It\u2019s so obvious what this has always been.<\/p>\n
Trump being forced out of office cannot happen unless elected Republicans join the Democrats and demand it. That\u2019s the only way, and that has been the objective. Okay. So it failed! The coup and everything failed. Forcing Trump to resign failed. They even tried the 25th Amendment! You know, and then they were gonna wear a wire, Rosenstein was gonna wear a wire try to get the goods on Trump being unfit. They wanted the cabinet to come in!<\/p>\n
They were doing everything they could to try to force Republicans, elected Republicans to abandon Trump. That was the only way ever they were gonna get rid of Trump before 2020. Well, we\u2019re now one year out from 2020, and they have failed. They\u2019ve tried everything, and now they\u2019re continuing. Now they\u2019re up to impeachment, and they got everybody believing that we\u2019re on the verge of actually having articles of impeachment and then a trial and then a conviction.<\/p>\n
But wait a minute. They\u2019re not gonna go there! It\u2019s never been about a trial in the Senate — unless, as I said, there is something that the whole country agrees is unacceptable. But there isn\u2019t anything like that. There isn\u2019t an impeachable offense here. I mean, look where we\u2019ve come from. We\u2019ve come from Russia collusion. (Raspberry!) Now we got a phone call, a phone call to the president of Ukraine. We\u2019re gonna impeach for that? Come on, folks.<\/p>\n
This has always been a grand illusion that Trump is unfit, that Trump is incompetent, that Trump is a danger, what have you. So now we\u2019re one year out, and now all of that forcing Trump to resign, that\u2019s now in the rearview mirror! Now it\u2019s about 2020! They know they\u2019re not gonna force Trump out! They know there\u2019s not enough time for the Republicans to abandon Trump, to force him to resign before 2020. They may dream of it, but there isn\u2019t time for that. It isn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna have to have an election. They\u2019re gonna have to win the next election. Now, you\u2019ve heard some Democrats say, like Al Green, “Hey, if we don\u2019t impeach the guy, he\u2019s gonna be reelected!” What does that tell you? They know full well what they\u2019re facing here. So they\u2019re not going… Pelosi and Schiff and the rest of that gaggle are not going to lose control. They\u2019re not gonna give up control of the political issue. The Democrats are running for the White House in 2020 on impeachment, on Trump\u2019s unfitness, on Trump should be impeached.<\/p>\n
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But they\u2019re not gonna pull the trigger on that. That is their 2020 campaign issue. This is why so many Democrats are saying, “Oh, what are we doing here?” They\u2019ve stopped talking about issues that actual people vote on, and their whole all-in move here is, “Trump\u2019s unfit, Trump\u2019s unqualified, Trump is a mistake, Trump is…” Well, that\u2019s been what they\u2019ve been trying for the last three years, and what has had got \u2019em? Well, it gets them a news narrative every day, but it hasn\u2019t gotten rid of Trump.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s still out there having a ball. Trump\u2019s still out there doing his rallies. People show up at the rallies. They love the rallies. They\u2019re having a great time. They have not turned Trump into a whimpering mental case hiding in the corners of dark rooms of the White House residence. None of that\u2019s going on. But I\u2019m just telling you the minute they have a vote… (Snort!) They\u2019re not going to. Pelosi said they\u2019re not gonna do a vote. That\u2019s all you need to know, that they\u2019re not serious about it. It is nothing more than…<\/p>\n
See, when you have the media on your side or when the media is your leader? (chuckles) Why, that changes everything. Then you can do whatever you want and call it whatever you want. So they\u2019re running their 2020 campaign to defeat Trump, and they\u2019re calling it impeachment. They\u2019ve named their campaign “impeachment,” but there isn\u2019t an actual impeachment going on. “Wait a minute, Rush. Wait a minute. They\u2019re calling witnesses.”<\/p>\n
Yeah, they\u2019re calling witnesses in the basement behind closed and they\u2019re not letting anybody read the transcripts! They\u2019re not… Folks, this is all… I keep trying overusing the word “illusion,” but having the media helps. Whatever they do, they can call it, “We are impeaching the president. We have an impeachment inquiry. We are issuing subpoenas and letters.” But no, not really, and I cannot emphasize enough that actually having a vote and presenting articles of impeachment — drawing up the cases and then the House managers assigned to go conduct the trial in the Senate — guess what?<\/p>\n
That puts the entire Democrat reelection or election campaign in the hands of the Senate. They are not going to do that. If I\u2019m right, six months from now, the Democrat campaign will still be focused on impeaching Trump. “Well, wait a minute, Rush. Everybody will know six months out they\u2019re not gonna impeach Trump.” They\u2019re gonna call it that. No matter what they do, that\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna call it. That word, they think, holds magic. That word, “impeachment,” they\u2019re hoping it will scare Republicans at some point into abandoning Trump.<\/p>\n
Now, if that happens, if they\u2019re successful in forcing Republicans to abandon Trump, then they think that will give them the 2020 election. But that\u2019s where the focus is now. Two years ago, the focus was on Trump resigning — and if they could make that happen now, they still will. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But time is running out on them. And, by the way, all of this, every bit of this is gonna change when they have a nominee, and we don\u2019t know when that\u2019s gonna be.<\/p>\n
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But it\u2019s probably gonna be before their convention. It\u2019s whenever one of those Looney Tunes wins enough delegates in the primaries to be the de facto nominee. That\u2019s when everything changes because that person then becomes the de facto head of the party, not Pelosi. And so that person\u2019s gonna have a decision to make. “Okay. Do we want to continue to go after Trump on the basis that he\u2019s unfit and we should impeachment him that or that or the other,” or are they gonna go back to issues like health care for all, tax increases for all, whatever they\u2019re gonna do?<\/p>\n
What we\u2019re looking at here — and I know it doesn\u2019t look like this at all. But when I look out over the landscape the last three years, I see one Democrat failure after another. I literally see them as a bunch of Wile E. Coyotes either blowing up themselves up or running off the cliff. And I say that because their objective has been forcing Donald Trump to resign, to getting him out of the White House in Washington, and they have failed.<\/p>\n
And they may have succeeded in slowing down the implementation of his presidential agenda, but they haven\u2019t stopped it. We\u2019ve got an economic set of circumstances they can\u2019t argue against — unemployment, wages up, unemployment down. They don\u2019t have any issues to run on. Now they\u2019re even… Now, if you didn\u2019t know better, the Democrats are for war. They want troops deployed all over the world! (Snort!) When did that happen?<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s got them taking positions simply because they hate him that are positions they\u2019ve never taken before. It\u2019s gotta have some of their serious supporters scratching their heads out there. “Do we really want to vote for somebody that wants to send troops all over the world here? This is not what we thought we were about.” So all I am saying is that I think this impeachment thing is actually a gigantic failure.<\/p>\n
And I was gonna say here before even the show open that I\u2019m going out on the limb. I really think, despite the language and despite the news narratives and coverage, I think they\u2019ve given up on actual impeachment — meaning a vote and a trial (Snort!) — for the very simple reason they\u2019re not going to give control of the, quote, unquote, “story.” The last thing they want is impeachment in the Senate, in the hands of the Turtle, in the hands of Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n
And the last thing they want is an acquittal in the Senate. And they need to find… If they\u2019re gonna do this and get a conviction in the Senate, they need 20 Republicans to vote with the Democrats to get rid of a Republican president, whom they have failed to be able to get rid of for three years ago. Now, there may be a couple of Mitt Romneys over there, but there aren\u2019t 20 of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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