RUSH: So I get this email during the break. “Rush, you do this all the time. You tell us what the big Democrat media bombshells are, but then you never talk about it.” That is very shrewd of you. That is very perceptive. Why should I turn this show into CNN? It\u2019s nothing but a bunch of lies, folks. Why should I help them promote it? I\u2019m just gonna tell you what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ll use this as an example. This latest guy, this Bill Taylor. How many bombshells can there be? Not a single one of them has borne fruit for these people, depending on how you define bearing fruit. They still don\u2019t have an impeachable offense; they don\u2019t have an impeachment; they don\u2019t have Russian collusion; they don\u2019t have obstruction. They have got nothing, folks. You understand that, right?<\/p>\n
It may look to you like they\u2019ve got everything because of the way the media covers them. They\u2019ve got nothing. We\u2019re now into our third year of this, folks, and it starts with Trump-Russia collusion. What happened to that? Now we have an impeachment over a phone call that in 2016 and 2017 and 2018 nobody knew was gonna be made. The phone call happens in July between Trump and the president of Ukraine. That\u2019s the bombshell?<\/p>\n
And now we\u2019ve got, since that didn\u2019t pan out, where\u2019s the whistleblower? Who is this guy? The whistleblower, that didn\u2019t bear out. That\u2019s gonna poof. So now we\u2019ve got this endless parade of diplomats and State Department and Pentagon people who are going in in private and telling Adam Schiff these blockbuster stories. Really? They\u2019re throwing things up against the wall. They\u2019ve got nothing. They never have had anything. I\u2019m not suggesting that their intent isn\u2019t serious, don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n
Let me get back to my impeachment analysis here because, folks, impeachment is purely political, and you can\u2019t do it without public support for it. You just can\u2019t do it, especially with the current lay of the land. There are 53 Republicans in the Senate. You would need 20 of them to vote with the Democrats to get a conviction. But what if that\u2019s not the objective? It isn\u2019t the objective because it\u2019s not possible.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re not gonna have 20 Republicans vote to essentially kill the Republican Party, because that would do it. If sometime in the next 12 months 20 Republicans — with this economy and with Trump\u2019s approval numbers hovering steady, they\u2019re not plummeting, Trump\u2019s approval numbers, depending on the poll, are inching up. CNN was lamenting this yesterday. John King on CNN was lamenting the fact that despite all of this his approval numbers are holding steady. They\u2019re pulling their hair out!<\/p>\n
You\u2019re not gonna have 20 Republicans vote to convict unless they want to end the Republican Party \u2019cause I\u2019m gonna tell you this. If sometime in the next 12 months during the heat of the presidential campaign with less than a year to go before the election you have 20 Republicans vote to convict the president, they can say good-bye to reelection and the party is finished, it\u2019s over. They\u2019re not gonna do that. The Democrats know this.<\/p>\n
The game is not conviction because it can\u2019t be achieved. And the game is not acquittal because that blows everything up. The last thing they want is to go to trial in the Senate and have 20 Republicans not vote to convict. That would mean Trump is found not guilty. That would be the worst possible things for Democrats after four years of Trump did everything, after four years of them trying to lie to the American people Trump\u2019s guilty of every damn thing they\u2019ve charged him with, three, four months before the election here comes an acquittal in the Senate? No way.<\/p>\n
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What they want is useful idiots like Mitt Romney to publicly express they\u2019re support for getting rid of Trump. Then they can claim that this phony impeachment effort is bipartisan. And that\u2019s their campaign. This is their 2020 campaign. They don\u2019t think they can win it with any of the candidates they have seeking the nomination. They really don\u2019t. The New York Times has told us that today.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t think they can beat Trump on issues. They don\u2019t think they can do that. All they\u2019ve got — and I mean all they\u2019ve got — is the ongoing effort to try to convince a majority of voters that Trump is unqualified, inept, and shouldn\u2019t have been elected in the first place. Their effort, the objective here remains what it started out as, overturning the election results of 2016. They simply don\u2019t have the time to get Trump thrown out of office before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s the gambit? Let me start at the top. I think a pause is coming on this, this impeachment business. You know, I keep falling for the trap. It isn\u2019t an impeachment yet. There hasn\u2019t been a formal vote. You cannot have an impeachment in private. It must be public. You cannot have an impeachment where the president\u2019s party is not permitted to participate. You can\u2019t have an impeachment where witnesses are not cross-examined. You can\u2019t have an impeachment where the president doesn\u2019t get to present his case. None of this is happening with Schiff\u2019s little sham here that he\u2019s running.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s very crucial that Pelosi is still afraid to call a vote. She doesn\u2019t want to endanger 40 seats. She got 40 seats in Trump districts in 2018. She doesn\u2019t want to risk those. There was nothing to the Ukrainian phone call. Why is the bombshell today all of a sudden this ambassador or this diplomat named Bill Taylor, why is that the bombshell? What happened to the whistleblower, folks?<\/p>\n
Remember the whistleblower a month ago was the bombshell. Remember how everything came to a screeching halt when news that a whistleblower had blown the whistle on Trump\u2019s phone call with the Ukrainian president. Then what happened? Trump releases the transcript of that phone call. The moment he did that, the whistleblower and any subsequent whistleblowers to follow were rendered irrelevant because the whistleblower admitted that he did not have firsthand knowledge, meaning he did not actually hear the call. He wasn\u2019t in on it. He had been told by people who heard the call what was said.<\/p>\n
So the whistleblower was secondhand. I\u2019m sorry. Secondhand versus actual call transcript, secondhand doesn\u2019t have a chance. Secondhand has thus become irrelevant. What happened to the whistleblower? Where is he? Why are they not even talking about him anymore?<\/p>\n
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Why is the whistleblower gone and every day now there\u2019s a new bombshell with a new witness? First it was Volcker, then it was Godnoff or Godney or whatever his name, now it\u2019s Bill Taylor. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they bring Sally Yates back, James Comey. It\u2019s about time they start recycling things here.<\/p>\n
Let me put this in the context of the last three years. It starts with Trump-Russia collusion. That\u2019s gone. The walls were closing in. Trump was history. It was only a matter of time, nothing, zip, zero, nada. Whistleblower, gone, zip, zero, nada.<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s Bill Taylor somebody nobody\u2019s ever heard of. And I\u2019ll tell you what his story is here in a minute. There was nothing to the Ukraine phone call. There\u2019s nothing but trouble with the whistleblower. And, by the way, the whistleblower has other problems. His own past liaisons, his contacts, his motivations. He is an Adam Schiff friend of a staffer! Adam Schiff walked the whistleblower through the process.<\/p>\n
Nobody thought Trump would ever release the transcript of the phone call. This all is a setup. It turns out that this star witness today, Bill Taylor, he\u2019s been coached by an Adam Schiff staffer that flew to Ukraine and met with all these people. This has been in the works for a couple of months now, folks. None of it is just happening. They want you to think that Schiff has a committee going, and they\u2019re calling in witnesses, and every day they\u2019re learning something new, and every day it\u2019s a bombshell.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re not learning anything. They are executing a previously planned program. The whistleblower was phase 1. That blew up. Every witness after this is somebody they\u2019ve already been in contact with and have set up. And it is being learned that all of these people have relationships or relationships with staffers of Adam Schiff.<\/p>\n
None of this is real, folks. I mean, it\u2019s happening. It\u2019s real. But it is not what they are leading you to believe. That Adam Schiff is a great patriot, he\u2019s sitting there in his committee room in the basement, and he\u2019s trying to get to the bottom of this. It\u2019s so bad. Gotta get people to talk, trying as hard as he can to get to the bottom of this. And every day somebody comes in and they\u2019re learning things they didn\u2019t know and it\u2019s even worse than anybody thought. None of that is true.<\/p>\n
Like Christine Blasey Ford was not true. Her stories about Kavanaugh were not true. Like Anita Hill\u2019s stories about Clarence Thomas were not true. Like Ted Kennedy\u2019s allegations about Robert Bork were not true. There just isn\u2019t any truth to this. That\u2019s one of the reasons why I can\u2019t believe the Republicans are so shell-shocked and not pushing back to this.<\/p>\n
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It is easy to characterize what this is. And the last thing this is is legitimate. But there is another important factor in this. We forget that Adam Schiff is a former federal prosecutor. Federal prosecutors have a lot of power with the grand jury. What is the grand jury? The grand jury is the epitome of the expression of power of a federal prosecutor because the opposition and target is not permitted in. The target\u2019s lawyers are not permitted in. It\u2019s just the prosecutor and the grand jurors.<\/p>\n
And he can tell them anything he wants. He can ask them anything he wants. And the people that he\u2019s trying to nail are not permitted in the room. And, furthermore, it is against the law for anybody in the room to say anything about what went on in the room. Well, this is what Schiff is doing! He\u2019s essentially playing off his experience as a federal prosecutor, he\u2019s running a grand jury, a mock grand jury hearing here and calling it impeachment. It isn\u2019t!<\/p>\n
It is the epitome of unfairness when you get right down to it. It is the epitome of a stacked deck. Adam Schiff is not just a liar. He\u2019s incompetent. He cannot figure out how to sell his star chamber and yet he can\u2019t run an open hearing because he doesn\u2019t have any evidence, folks. He doesn\u2019t have any evidence. Adam Schiff is on the hook.<\/p>\n
Adam Schiff, since election night 2016, has been telling everybody that he has incontrovertible proof that Trump colluded with Russia. But he doesn\u2019t. He\u2019s lied about it. He\u2019s never presented it because it doesn\u2019t exist. He doesn\u2019t have any evidence. “Well, Rush, I don\u2019t know what these ambassadors are saying. It\u2019s pretty bad.”<\/p>\n
Folks, don\u2019t fall for this. Where were these ambassadors three years ago? Oh, that\u2019s right, they couldn\u2019t say anything \u2019cause the phone call hadn\u2019t happened \u2019til July of this year. One bombshell after another just explodes on \u2019em and blows up and, poof, it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, see here right on schedule, here is CNN with a story, “Number 2 Senate Republican not a good picture of testimony.” This is the bombshell testimony of the day. This William Taylor guy, I\u2019m gonna explain it here in a minute. Republicans are idiotic to even react to this. “Well, that\u2019s not a good picture out of there.” What\u2019s happening in here is an absolute scam.<\/p>\n
By the way, here is a little news item. Democrats are hysterical that the Republicans who stormed into little Adam Schiff\u2019s room today took cell phones. \u201cLaura Cooper\u2019s scheduled deposition has been upended by a group of House Republicans storming the hearing room, members say. Republicans took cellphones into the secure area, which is a huge violation. We\u2019re told the room will need a security sweep before the deposition can continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Folks, there\u2019s nothing classified going on here! There is no testimony that\u2019s classified. None of Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails are being discussed. There\u2019s nothing classified. They open each of these hearings by saying that nothing\u2019s classified. There\u2019s no reason for this to be happening at all other than the illusion that Schiff is attempting to create here. Now they\u2019re having to bring everything to a screeching halt because Republicans took cell phones in there?<\/p>\n
Okay, the Democrats have their hair on fire today over Trump\u2019s tweet where he said his impeachment was a lynching. Now, as I mentioned at the top of the program, I think this actually now was strategic on Trump\u2019s part. I think he knew what the reaction to this would be, and it was. The media went nuts. “You can\u2019t say that! You can\u2019t say the word ‘lynching.\u2019 That\u2019s so insensitive. That\u2019s so bogus. That\u2019s so ogre-ish. You can\u2019t do that.”<\/p>\n And it totally covered up the intended conch of the testimony of this latest bombshell artist, a guy by the name of Taylor from some bureaucracy who was testifying before Schiff\u2019s committee. In fact, NBC has the story. \u201cTrump\u2019s ‘Lynching Tweet\u2019 Overshadows Bombshell Testimony – As a key witness testified in a Tuesday hearing as part of an ongoing impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, President Trump stirred controversy online, describing the investigation against him as a \u2018lynching,\u2019 a word deeply tied to America\u2019s history of racially motivated murder.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s just a crock! As I pointed out yesterday, the largest single mass lynching in this country occurred in 1891 in New Orleans of Italians. Yeah, blacks were lynched, but was not an exclusive to blacks crime, but look at the way this was worded. \u201cA word deeply tied to America\u2019s history of racially motivated murder.\u201d God I hate these people. I just.<\/p>\n \u201cSomething like lynching is far beneath the office of the president of the United States,\u201d said James Clyburn of South Carolina. \u201cCalifornia\u2019s Rep. Karen Bass said the comment was part of a pattern. \u2018Every time his back is against the wall he uses race,\u2019 Bass said. \u2018He throws out race as a bomb to divert the attention.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Wait a minute. Who\u2019s diverting attention here? Who\u2019s diverting attention? You really think Trump thought that this — He knows calling impeachment a lynching is standard fare in Washington. Bill Clinton said he was being lynched. Biden said Clinton was being lynched. I\u2019m not even gonna bore you with the sound bites, but we\u2019ve got an endless parade of people on tape who have accused various Democrats of being lynched over impeachment, Clinton and otherwise, Biden. Biden\u2019s out there apologizing today for having said it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe controversy drew attention away from the highly-anticipated deposition with acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor. \u2018This is my most disturbing day in the Congress so far,\u2019 Michigan\u2019s Rep. Andy Levin said after hearing Taylor\u2019s testimony. In a September text message, Taylor wrote \u2018I think it\u2019s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.\u2019 U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland responded there was no quid pro quo, though he recently testified the president directed him to write that.\u201d<\/p>\n This thing that Schiff is doing has been in the works since August. It is now October. The Democrats are using the testimony of this Taylor guy to move the goal posts again. Instead of Trump\u2019s crime being his demand of a quid pro quo and his phone call, we\u2019re now being told that the quid pro quo took place after that phone call.<\/p>\n Taylor, the bombshell witness of the day, is claiming, with no evidence — and we don\u2019t know what he\u2019s actually saying because there aren\u2019t any transcripts. We just have to rely on what Schiff leaks and then what the New York Times publishes. Taylor claims that Trump\u2019s envoy to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, told an adviser to the Ukraine president that the military assistance would not come until Zelensky publicly committed to pursue the Burisma investigation.<\/p>\n Now, this is another change, folks. The Democrats had moved away from alleging Trump wanting to investigate the Bidens to claiming Trump\u2019s crime was wanting to investigate CrowdStrike. They keep going back and forth. They can\u2019t settle on one thing \u2019cause they know the media is gonna keep confusing the issue.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president is denying there was ever a quid pro quo, but they don\u2019t believe him because he likes Trump. Now, Bill Taylor, ambassador Ukraine, bombshell witness, also claims that Sondland told him on September 8th that Trump is a businessman and that, quote, when a businessman\u2019s about to sign a check to somebody who owes him something, the businessman asks the person to pay up before signing the check.<\/p>\n Taylor claims that Sondland said that President Trump wanted Zelensky in a public box by making a public statement about ordering such investigations. Yet the military aid was fully released on September 11th! The quid pro quo is now supposedly Trump threatening to withhold military aid after the phone call unless Zelensky did what Trump wanted. But the military aid was released on September 11th! The phone calls happened in August, July!<\/p>\n There wasn\u2019t any public announcement about the military aid being released, but it was. Ukraine started any investigation of the Bidens without any of this — there was no quid pro quo here. Again, notice this is the secondhand account of what Sondland supposedly told Taylor. We just have Taylor\u2019s word for it. There\u2019s no cross-examination.<\/p>\n In Taylor, you\u2019ve got a Sally Yates. You\u2019ve got an Obama holdover. You\u2019ve got a deep state person. All of this is the ongoing effort to try to sabotage Trump. It\u2019s why I don\u2019t like talking about this stuff. I don\u2019t like airing what these leftists are alleging. I don\u2019t even like putting it out there. And I got through two hours of this today without having to do it.<\/p>\n There is this minor detail. Ukraine president, foreign minister, everybody else involved said there was no quid pro quo ever. And that\u2019s just being totally ignored on behalf of and in favor of secondhand testimony again. What happened to the whistleblower? Where did that go? When everything that Schiff has planned blows up magically, somebody else appears with bombshell revelations!<\/p>\n You know what? When we first heard about the whistleblower, we were told that there was an actual first whistleblower. I mean, we\u2019d have to say that the first whistleblower was the first, but we were told, you know, he had secondhand information, that he was told by somebody. So in truth there was a whistleblower who blew the whistle to the whistleblower. I think it was Taylor. I think Taylor\u2019s up to his eyebrows in this stink.<\/p>\n I think Taylor is the so-called second whistleblower who blew the whistle to first whistleblower who then goes to Schiff. We were told the second whistleblower, the attorney is a Republican with a long history in Foreign Service. That would be Taylor. This all just stinks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Atlantic Council is funded by and works in partnership with Burisma, the natural gas company at the center of allegations regarding Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.\u201d Burisma is all over this. \u201cTaylor has been called by House Democrats to appear next week to provide a deposition as part of the investigation being led by Schiff into President Trump\u2019s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.\u201d<\/p>\n By the way, it\u2019s a phone call Taylor himself never heard \u2019cause he\u2019s never even read the transcript of it. Taylor did not hear the Trump phone call with Zelensky. Yet there he is as a witness, which makes me think he\u2019s one of the whistleblowers here, a secondhand receiver of knowledge passing it on.<\/p>\n \u201cTaylor himself has evidenced a close relationship with the Burisma-funded Atlantic Council, writing analysis pieces published on the Council\u2019s website and serving as a featured speaker for the organization\u2019s events. He also served for nine years as senior advisor to the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, which has co-hosted scores of events with the Atlantic Council.\u201d<\/p>\n We have a bunch of Democrats here, a Democrat think tank organizing with a Democrat committee chairman, a bunch of people claiming firsthand knowledge and secondhand knowledge of a phone call that\u2019s now irrelevant because the transcript of it has been released.<\/p>\n Again, the key to Taylor\u2019s testimony — this is such a convoluted timeline — the original allegation was — remember what Schiff said from his committee chair. He said that Trump told the president of Ukraine to dig up dirt, to make up dirt if he had to, on Joe Biden and his son Hunter. And, furthermore, he told him to do this eight or nine times on the phone call, promised to withhold American aid until the Ukraine president did all that. And then he told the Ukraine president not to call back until he had done all this. This is what Schiff said that Trump said.<\/p>\n Then it blew up on Schiff, and he had to say, \u201cWell, no, no, that was parody.\u201d So from that stage Schiff then kept maintaining that Trump was asking Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election by conducting an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter, Burisma and all of this. And Trump threatened to withhold any aid from the United States to Ukraine unless Ukraine followed through on Trump\u2019s demand. That blew up when it was revealed that the aid had already started flowing before Trump even made the phone call.<\/p>\n Then they added, well, wait a minute, they added a quid pro quo. Trump said, Trump demanded that they do the investigation or that aid would stop! Then that blew up when the whistleblower couldn\u2019t make the case. Now here comes Taylor and his bombshell testimony is that the quid pro quo happened after the call! But what really happened was that Trump told the president of Ukraine the aid would stop if he didn\u2019t investigate Biden.<\/p>\n So we go from Schiff claiming Trump telling Ukraine there won\u2019t be any aid unless they investigate, to, oops, sorry, we got the timeline wrong. Trump told them the aid would be stopped if they didn\u2019t investigate. Why the change? Because Schiff never counted on anybody realizing the aid had already begun to flow before this phone call occurred. Now, this is why I don\u2019t like doing CNN\u2019s job, spreading the story of this.<\/p>\n I have to tell you what the media is reporting, and it is a pack of falsehoods, near falsehoods, some outright lies, and a lot of innuendo, given credibility by yet another deep state, we cannot distrust somebody from the State Department. Just like we can\u2019t distrust anybody from the intelligence community. We have to trust them. They\u2019re the best and the brightest. 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How the hell do the Republicans not even get allowed in there?<\/a> One of the reasons I don\u2019t spend a lot of time talking about this is because the more I think about it the more fit to be tied I am. I get literally angry over what is happening here and until today, the absence of any pushback against it. Schiff is running a scam. The guy is a total, colossal wandering shred of human debris in this. He\u2019s just a punk! The guy can\u2019t engage in anything that\u2019s truthful if his life depends on it. \u201cWell, they run the House, Rush, so they can do what they want.\u201d Sadly there\u2019s truth to that.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Pelosi-Schiff.jpg\")
This, folks, all of this is a great example of why these hearings should be open to the public. According to the Republicans who were in the room, Sondland supported Trump and completely contradicted Taylor. Taylor\u2019s just the latest guy that Schiff has coached. There is a connection between a member of Schiff\u2019s staff and Taylor. Schiff\u2019s staff member went to Ukraine earlier this summer, coordinated things with Taylor.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-092519-Joe-Hunter-Biden.jpg\")
Now we\u2019re back to the crime being Trump wanting to investigate Bidens. Yesterday they were all upset about CrowdStrike. The day before that they were all upset about investigating the Bidens. The day before that it was a quid pro quo. Then Sondland said there wasn\u2019t any quid pro quo. Then the Democrats admit there wasn\u2019t a quid pro quo on the call; there was a quid pro quo that happened after the call.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-breitbart-TEARAWAY-102319.jpg\")
<\/a>Now, here\u2019s the story. This from Breitbart. \u201cAdam Schiff Staffer Met with Impeachment Witness on Ukraine Trip<\/a> — Itinerary for a trip to Ukraine in August organized by the Atlantic Council think tank reveals that a staffer on Rep. Adam Schiff\u2019s House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a meeting during the trip with acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, now a key witness for Democrats pursuing impeachment.<\/p>\n