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RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Jeff in Minneapolis. It says here that you think I might be underestimating the impeachment effort a bit.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, Rush. First-time caller, longtime listener, by the way.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So, yeah. Don\u2019t underestimate the power of the deep state, is my thought. They got their hands in the cookie jar, both sides. Donald\u2019s taken it away. They don\u2019t want to lose it. So I wouldn\u2019t ignore a vote in the Senate to impeach Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you\u2019re talking about if it gets to the Senate, you think there\u2019s a real chance that they could get 20 — don\u2019t misunderstand my tone here — you think there\u2019s a real chance they could get 20 Republicans to join the 47 Democrats to vote to convict Trump?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I do. With all the things that have happened since Donald Trump came on the scene, I wouldn\u2019t be shocked by anything.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So what makes you think that this impeachment is going to — this isn\u2019t an impeachment yet, by the way.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No. Correct.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So what makes you convinced that Pelosi is gonna actually authorize an official impeachment by calling for a vote and then assigning House managers to present the case in a trial to the Senate?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: I think maybe some of the Never Trumpers that keep kind of popping up now and then may have something to do with it, the Mitt Romneys of the world and even Lindsey Graham flip-flopped a little bit there. So are they laying in the weeds waiting for the right moment? Are we blind again to that? The power? The greed?<\/p>\n
RUSH: No. I have every suspicion you do. But I\u2019ve also looked — let me share with you and thus with everybody else some of my thinking on this. I think, actually, folks, that a pause in impeachment is coming. This whole thing\u2019s a sham. Yeah, I know what you\u2019re saying. They\u2019ve gotten away — you think they\u2019ve gotten away with lying about everything. Because everything they have said about Donald Trump in terms of their allegations of his illegal conduct, all of it has been a lie. There\u2019s not a shred of evidence backing up any allegation they\u2019ve made, starting with Russia collusion and meddling.<\/p>\n
They have lied about Stormy Daniels. Everything is a lie. They\u2019ve got the media on their side legitimizing these lies. They\u2019re reporting these lies as factual stories without sources and without any evidence. And so the illusion is being presented as well by the media. They are trying to make what is a Democrat political strategy look like news, like they make poll results to be news.<\/p>\n
What Adam Schiff is doing is not an impeachment hearing. He\u2019s running a scam, closed-door sessions. Republicans are not allowed in. They\u2019re not even allowed to see the transcripts. Schiff then makes up what the witnesses are saying or takes a sentence or two out of context and leaks it to the media, which gets reported as a news story, usually as more bombshell testimony.<\/p>\n
But this is contrary to every precedent that has ever been set regarding impeachment. And I\u2019m telling you, 63 million people voted for Donald Trump, and it\u2019s not gonna persuade them. This is not going to sell to the public once the public learns that there has been no cross-examination, there have been no public hearings, there have not been any Republicans permitted in this thing. It\u2019s not an impeachment, then. And why is Pelosi still afraid to call a vote? She\u2019s not gonna call a vote because she doesn\u2019t want this to end, folks. This is the 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n
Because, see, there\u2019s a factor here, we\u2019re getting closer to the election every day. The public is going to increasingly say, “Why don\u2019t we just wait? What is the point? The election pretty soon is gonna be just a year away. What is the point of all this?” Both of the past recent impeachment efforts, Clinton and Nixon, were against reelected presidents just starting their second terms. Well, in the case of Clinton, just ending.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: And, by the way, Republicans in the Senate are not gonna vote to impeach Donald Trump unless they want to destroy the Republican Party. That would be the only way that would happen, folks.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: “Dear Mr. Limbaugh” — this is an email I got after the conversation I had with the caller from Minneapolis who believes that it\u2019s entirely possible that 20 Republicans could vote to impeach Trump. He is totally convinced there is so much opposition and hatred for Trump, so big a desire to preserve the deep state, the administrative state, the Washington government, that they will burn it down to keep it, even if that means 20 Republicans have to vote to remove Trump.<\/p>\n
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I tried to explain to him why I don\u2019t think that would happen. I got an email. “On one hand, Mr. Limbaugh, I agree with your caller. Having experienced the power of a massive lobby effort on a small scale when I used to work in state government, I don\u2019t put anything past these people. I don\u2019t put anything past the deep state. I don\u2019t put anything past the war lobby to go after these spineless, gonadless Republican senators to impeach Trump. It would be relentless. And I expect every Republican in the Senate to be targeted by these people with threats that you can\u2019t even imagine.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, Mr. Limbaugh, I have felt too many times to count now that they had finally found the way to get rid of Trump or at least to hurt him with his base. I must admit to you, Mr. Limbaugh, I have wavered where you have not. Many times over the past two years with a breaking news story, I thought that was it, Trump was toast. Can\u2019t recall the incidentals but I just want to share with you, Mr. Limbaugh, that I fell for it, numbers of times I thought Trump was done.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you know what, Mr. Limbaugh? He\u2019s never done. All these bombshells and all these things I fell for never actually worked. They never actually happened. Trump always survives them. In the end, they do not get Trump. They don\u2019t take Trump out. In fact, Mr. Limbaugh, what I think they\u2019re doing, I think they are building Trump\u2019s base. I think they are stoking Trump\u2019s base to support him more. Trump always finds a way to win. And that way is mostly because he\u2019s innocent.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t do any of this, Mr. Limbaugh. Literally none of what he\u2019s been accused of has he done. None of it. At some point, Mr. Limbaugh, this has to matter. He hasn\u2019t done any of it. They don\u2019t have evidence for any of these allegations they have made. And devoid or absent that, the tentacles of the swamp simply cannot get him. So, Mr. Limbaugh, I trust Trump. I do, even when it\u2019s hard and even when I get swayed, even when I waver, even when I go wobbly kneed, even when the Drive-Bys get me, I end up returning to Trump, realizing they haven\u2019t ever succeeded.”<\/p>\n
Yeah. Now, they haven\u2019t succeeded in getting rid of Trump, and they won\u2019t. You could argue they\u2019ve retarded his agenda implementation. Imagine what Trump could have done with a 55% approval rating. Imagine if these people actually had unified. Let\u2019s just say in the first year, imagine if the Republicans alone, when we had the House, imagine if Paul Ryan could have led a unified House with Trump the first year. To hell with the Democrats. They didn\u2019t control anything then.<\/p>\n
First two years. Imagine if the Republicans alone had been unified with Trump in the first two years. But no, didn\u2019t happen. So there has been an impact. They\u2019ve slowed the agenda down. They\u2019ve created doubt, this kind of thing. But they have not succeeded in their topmost agenda, and that\u2019s reversing the results of the election, getting rid of Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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