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<\/p>\nRUSH: I got a note just before the program started. Representative Matt Gaetz from Florida tweeted about 11:30 or so that “I led over 30 of my colleagues into the SCIF where Adam Schiff is holding secret impeachment depositions. Still inside — more details to come.”<\/p>\n
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The SCIF is — I mean, if you watch television shows, you know what a SCIF is. It\u2019s a secure room where communications don\u2019t get in, nothing\u2019s bugged in there, nobody can tell and know what\u2019s being said inside. This is where Schiff is running an impeachment hearing, in a SCIF.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not running an impeachment hearing. Andy McCarthy made my point today. He\u2019s not running impeachment. This is not impeachment what they\u2019re doing up there. There hasn\u2019t been an impeachment vote. There isn\u2019t gonna be an impeachment vote.<\/p>\n
The story at The Daily Caller:<\/a> \u201cHouse Republicans briefly shut down a closed-door meeting Wednesday by storming the room where lawmakers were questioning a Defense Department official involving the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.\u201d So we\u2019re getting some pushback here. And as you go through the audio sound bites today, you\u2019ll see that there is more pushback from the Republicans one day after I asked, \u201cWhere the hell is it?\u201d<\/p>\n Now, here\u2019s the thing about this, ladies and gentlemen. I\u2019m watching this babe on Fox. \u201cThe Republicans are finding it more and more difficult to defend President Trump.\u201d And she\u2019s right. And I don\u2019t understand it. Why is it so hard to defend Trump? If you can\u2019t defend Trump, why can\u2019t you defend us? Because we\u2019re the real targets here.<\/p>\n The real problem with this, folks — and I don\u2019t mean this as a criticism of Trump, please don\u2019t misunderstand. But what all of this aimed at Trump really is is hate for the rest of us. It\u2019s hate for all of us who elected him. It\u2019s hate for all of us who support him. We are the ones they hate. The ones that elect Republicans, we are the ones they hate. Trump is a surrogate for the hate. Trump is an easy target. He\u2019s the leader. He got elected president.<\/p>\n But it doesn\u2019t end with him. You know, you were listening yesterday. I practically lost it over some of these Republicans saying they wish Trump hasn\u2019t used the word “lynched.” I saw some leftist woman on Fox complaining Republicans have trouble defending Trump. We\u2019re not just defending Trump. We\u2019re defending ourselves. We\u2019re defending the Constitution. We\u2019re defending the American way of life against a leftist onslaught! What is so hard to defend about that?<\/p>\n You know, you can defend people who elect you without having to defend Trump!<\/a> How do you do it? You push back against the left! You push back against the Democrats! What\u2019s so hard about that? Can you not push pack against the Democrats without it being seen as defending Trump? And so what?<\/p>\n Trump is the elected Republican president. Forget what the media in Washington is saying. What is so difficult about opposing what the left is trying to do? Isn\u2019t that why you\u2019re in the game? Isn\u2019t that why there\u2019s a Republican Party? It\u2019s what Republican voters think.<\/p>\n Republican voters are voting to stop the Democrats, to stop the left, to defeat them within the political arena of ideas. This is what votes mean. People are not electing Republicans just to defend Trump. But what\u2019s so hard about that? I don\u2019t have any problem defending Trump because I\u2019m defending myself and I\u2019m defending you and I\u2019m defending the American way of life. And I\u2019m happy to do it! I\u2019m excited to do it! I look forward to it every day! I can\u2019t understand it being a burden!<\/p>\n I can\u2019t understand Republicans wringing their hands, \u201cOh, my God. Oh, my God. I don\u2019t want to be seen as defending Trump.\u201d You don\u2019t have to defend Trump! All you have to do is tell the truth like the rest of us are about Schiff and his phony impeachment and all of this garbage about Trump-Russia collusion. What I want to know from any of you people that are afraid to defend, could somebody explain to me why? Give me one reason why there is any reason to believe anything the Democrats say?<\/p>\n Look what started all of this. What started all of this, whatever you want to peg the beginning, was a series of lies that Trump was a traitor, colluded with Russia. There was never any evidence for this. There never has been a shred of evidence because it didn\u2019t happen. The polls for the 2016 presidential election were all wrong with maybe one or two exceptions. We haven\u2019t had truth in media for two and a half, three years. So why does anybody believe anything the left or the media is saying?<\/p>\n What is so hard about using intelligence guided by experience to know that we are in the midst of an ongoing, massive illusion that\u2019s being created built on lie after lie after lie. I just said all this and not one syllable in defense of Donald Trump. What is hard about this? It shouldn\u2019t be hard. Unless you don\u2019t see the Democrats as a problem. Unless you don\u2019t see what they\u2019re attempting to do as a problem. But I don\u2019t know how you can\u2019t see it as a problem.<\/p>\n What are they trying to do? They\u2019re trying to make the election results of 2016 invalid. They are trying to overturn the election results of 2016. If they succeed in this, no election from here forward is safe. If Washington, if the government, whatever you want to call it, if they succeed in reversing election results, which is all this is — there aren\u2019t any high crimes and misdemeanors. There aren\u2019t any impeachable offenses. There was no collusion between Trump and Russia. There was between Hillary and Russia, but not Trump.<\/p>\n If they get away with reversing election results and the Republicans don\u2019t see fit to stop it, then we can only conclude one thing, and that is certain Republicans actually don\u2019t mind losing. Maybe they would prefer to lose. Maybe losing with honor and dignity is the objective. Maybe not having to govern is the objective. Maybe not having to lead, the pressure, all that, not having to do it, maybe that\u2019s the objective. I don\u2019t want to believe that.<\/p>\n But I mean, you know what? \u201cI find it very difficult to defend Trump.\u201d That\u2019s a cop-out. Trump is a surrogate. This effort is aimed at over 60 million people who elected Trump and a whole bunch of other Republicans in 2016. Again, I ask, what is so hard to defend about not one honest element of the Democrat agenda and attack?<\/p>\n What\u2019s so hard about attacking what Adam Schiff is doing? He\u2019s a sitting duck. The guy can\u2019t tell the truth to save his life. The guy\u2019s engaged in a sham and scam right before our very eyes, except no, he\u2019s hiding what he\u2019s doing behind closed doors and not even letting Republicans in. You know, that\u2019s the way it was for 40 years, Republicans had 130, 135 members of Congress in the House. For 40 years that\u2019s the way it was.<\/p>\n Then Newt Gingrich comes along and screws everything up by winning the House for the first time in 40 years in 1994! Now all of a sudden, \u201cYh-oh, now what do we do?\u201d And it\u2019s gone back and forth since then. But this attack, these attacks on Donald Trump, he\u2019s a surrogate. I don\u2019t mean to say the attacks are not real, but it\u2019s on us.<\/p>\n So every one of you that elected Trump, every one of you that voted for Trump, every one of you that intends to vote for him again, that\u2019s what all of this is aimed at. This is who it\u2019s all aimed at, and that\u2019s you.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I guess what bugs me, it\u2019s just more of the same. So the Democrats create a phony impeachment. There is no impeachment. All of this, as I have articulately explained over the course of many exciting and sterling broadcasts, all of this is their 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n And this impeachment business is not impeachment. It is a phony establishment of a campaign issue. It\u2019s designed to just people think Trump is being impeached, is going to be impeached, but there isn\u2019t going to be one. This is gonna drag out past Christmas. I don\u2019t care if you\u2019ve heard they want to get this wrapped up by Thanksgiving. This isn\u2019t gonna end. This is their campaign.<\/p>\n And this is what bugs me. Why accept this premise? It\u2019s a lie. There is no impeachment. So why talk about it as such? Why react to it as such? Expose it! I\u2019m talking about Republican critics. There\u2019s no reason to go along with this. There isn\u2019t an impeachment. There hasn\u2019t been a vote. None of this is being done in public. None of this would stand up in a real impeachment.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: We stay on the phones to Atascadero, California. Randy, thank you for waiting, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yeah. Hi, Rush. Thanks a lot for taking the call. You know, you were talking earlier about defending Trump or, you know, Republicans having trouble defending Trump, and you were absolutely spot on, as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n CALLER: You\u2019re not defending Trump; you\u2019re defending our country. You\u2019re defending the things that he stands for that is defending the principles of our country that in fact have been taken away, you know, from us by —<\/p>\n CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n RUSH: — they\u2019re gonna vote against Democrats and against the left and beat them, we are the target.<\/p>\n CALLER: Absolutely. And the thing that\u2019s really scary is that the liberal and the Democrat side is actually using the mechanisms, the engine of our country, our legal system to basically be a stumbling block or a wall, if you wish, you know, against Trump and against our way of life. They\u2019re tying him up in the legal system. They\u2019re gonna go after him over and over with all these different, you know, examinations, evaluations, something pops up, you know, right after another one. They probably have a whole list of things, that they\u2019re going on down the list, as one fails, they go to another one.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, exactly. To make your point all you have to do is look at the bastardization of the legal system and the entire Trump-Russia collusion effort, the FISA warrants secured with a phony dossier. I mean, outrageous.<\/p>\n This lynching business, I guess, you know, I better get into that. I have titillated you enough with this. It\u2019s time to lay that out, make that as crystal clear as possible because now all the Democrats having used the word “lynching” to describe what happened to Bill Clinton, all those have surfaced. We knew it was gonna happen.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Now, Republicans are starting to get ticked off finally. I have here a tweet from representative Bradley Byrne. He\u2019s a Republican from Alabama. \u201cAdam Schiff just SHUT DOWN his secret underground impeachment hearing after I led a group of Republicans into the room. Now he\u2019s threatening me with an Ethics complaint! I\u2019m on the Armed Services Cmte but being blocked from the Dept. Asst. SecDef\u2019s testimony. This is a SHAM!\u201d<\/p>\n So Schiff is interviewing in private the defense department assistant secretary of defense. Republicans are not allowed in. Bradley Byrne, who\u2019s on the Armed Services Committee, stormed into the room. Schiff shut down his secret impeachment hearing and threatened Byrne with an ethics complaint.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Matt Gaetz. I mentioned to you earlier that Gaetz mentioned that he had stormed Schiff\u2019s hearing. I\u2019m gonna repeat this. This is one of those things, I say it and it may sail past people. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, is running what he and the media are calling impeachment inquiries in a secret room, a SCIF. This is a secure room, no media in or out, no bugs in there, nothing, no electronics are permitted — where he\u2019s interviewing so-called witnesses.<\/p>\n He\u2019s not permitting Republicans in the room. And he is not permitting Republicans to read transcripts. Whatever this is, it\u2019s not impeachment. So the Republicans finally stormed the room today. Matt Gaetz, Republican, Florida, Steve Scalise, Republican, Louisiana, and other House Republicans held a press conference to talk about the one-sidedness of all this.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-102119-Trump-Reporters.jpg\")
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<\/a>Folks, there\u2019s a story in the New York Times today.<\/a> They are worried about the current field! Joe Biden has a 10-point lead in the latest polls, 10:20 increase. Doesn\u2019t make any sense. Nobody on the Democrat side wants Biden! The New York Times is scared to death. \u201cIsn\u2019t there anybody else?\u201d screams the headline. I\u2019m telling you, this is all they\u2019ve got. They cannot beat Trump in an election. They\u2019ve got to taint it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-061418-Swamp-Hates-You-DRAIN.jpg\")
RUSH: Right. How do you separate Donald Trump from the 63 million that voted for him? They haven\u2019t abandoned him. Every attack on Donald Trump is an attack on us. My point is that we are the real targets. We are the real targets. We are the real problem. Trump\u2019s gonna come and go. We are ongoing. The American people —<\/p>\n